‘The Child of the Century’: Reading and Writing Short Fiction Across Media Edge Hill University, UK, May 13-14, 2016: deadline for proposals extended to January 31st 2016. Writing in 1936, Elizabeth Bowen said: ‘The short story is a young art; as we now know it, it is the child of this century. Poetic tautness and…
Conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society Hosted by the town of Bandol, France Supported by the New Zealand Embassy, Paris and the University of Northampton, UK KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor Enda Duffy University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Professor Ailsa Cox Edge Hill University, UK CALL FOR ABSTRACTS This international conference celebrates the centenary of…
Adaptation, Revision, Translation: From Life to Art, from the Page to Stage and Screen June 17-18, 2016 at Lille Catholic University Reflecting upon the new edition of her Theory of Adaptation published in 2013, Linda Hutcheon feels that the first version of her study only looked at adaptation “in terms of repetition with variation.” She…
Haunting in Short Fiction and Its Adaptations 20-21 November 2015, University of Angers, France Edge Hill University, University of Leuven, University of Le Mans, University of Nantes, University of Angers and the European Network for Short Fiction Research Friday 20 November 2015 9 a.m. registration 9.30 – 11 a.m. PANELS 1, 2 Panel 1: Maternal…
Call for Papers ‘The Child of the Century’: Reading and Writing Short Fiction Across Media A conference of the European Network for Short Fiction Research Edge Hill University, UK, May 13-14, 2016 Writing in 1936, Elizabeth Bowen said: ‘The short story is a young art; as we now know it, it is the child of…