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----CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Special Issue of EJES (European Joural of English Studies) on
ENGLISH AND THE PAST
Issue editor: Jurgen Pieters - University of Ghent (Belgium)
Proposals are invited asap. Final deadline for completed texts: August 15th 1999 (after which date texts will be reviewed and selected).
Proposals and/or essays of 5,000-6,000 words can be sent to
Jurgen Pieters Vakgroep Nederlandse Literatuur - Literatuurwetenschap Blandijnberg 2 B-9000 Gent jurgen.pieters@rug.ac.be
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
* What does it mean to read historically? Why do we feel the need to read historically? Does this make us better readers/teachers/people?
* What difference does reading historically make? Can it make a difference 'now', or does it foreclose the possibility of such a difference?
* What sort of history are we involved in as prfoessional readers? Do we practice cultural history, or do we practice social history? Is the difference (politically) significant? Is there a new role to play for cultural history in the European context? Does the common (economic) market call up the need of a new common cultural market? What effect would this have on the 'past' of English?
* Does the actual reading practice of current versions of literary historical research (New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, ...) make sufficiently clear what advantages these new methods have over traditional historical approaches? What is the theoretical basis of these new approaches? Do ideas and concepts like 'the historical sublime' or 'the conversation wth the dead' really allow for a better historical understanding?
* Why do we (as literary and cultural critics) grant fiction/imaginary writing a privileged position in our understanding of the past? How is it that literary or other fictions can serve as sources for historical knowledge? What sort of historical knowledge do they give? Jurgen Pieters Vakgroep Nederlandse literatuur en literatuurwetenschap Blandijnberg 2 B-9000 Gent Int/9/237;02.65. (home) Int/9/264.40.97 (work) Fax: Int/9/264.41.95. Yang online: http://www.spikemedia.com/yang
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