TABLE OF CONTENTS Michelle Ryan-Sautour and Gérald Préher Foreword Bertrand Cardin Introduction PART ONE: TRACES OF ORAL TRADITION: VOICES, DIALOGUES AND CONVERSATIONS Marie Mianowski Skipping and Gasping, Sighing and Hoping in Colum McCann’s “Aisling”: The Making of a Poet Catherine Conan Narration as Conversation: Patterns of Community-making in Colm Tóibín’s The Empty Family Eoghan Smith…
Call for Papers: Affect and the Short Story (Cycle) The Journal of the Short Story in English announces a call for papers for an upcoming special section—“Affect and the Short Story (Cycle)” The guest editors are interested in papers addressing how the field of Affect Studies can help inform the ways we read short stories…
Call for Articles for a special issue of the Journal of Short Stories in English devoted to D. H. Lawrence Guest editors: Christine Zaratsian (Aix-Marseille Université) and Shirley Bricout (Montpellier III) Transgressing Borders and Borderlines This special issue aims at bringing into focus the patterns of transgression which map out borders and borderlines as well…
Université de Nantes, France contact email: georges.letissier@univ-nantes.fr ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIÉTÉ DES ÉTUDES BRITANNIQUES CONTEMPORAINES The Spatial Imaginary in Contemporary British Literature and the Arts 18th- 19th October 2013 University of Nantes (France) http://www.laseac.fr/ The “spatial turn” which was largely initiated by Henri Lefebvre’s work La production de l’espace opened up new perspectives to…
Academia Belgica (Rome) * 12-14 September 2013 Universiteit Gent – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Università di Perugia Keynote speakers: Adrian Hunter (University of Stirling), Christine Reynier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Raffaele Donnarumma (Università di Pisa) The modernist period (1900-1940) is a time when the short story came into its own as an intricate, flexible and…