THE JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Call for articles for the upcoming special issue:
"The Cultural Processes of Appropriation"
Edited by Kathleen Ashley and Veronique Plesch
Volume 32 / Number 1 / Winter 2002
Virtually every object, space, text, or practice studied by scholars of
early culture incorporates and modifies materials, subject matters, and
themes from earlier periods or from other texts and social practices
through processes such as assimilation, citation, revision, transferral,
translation, hybridization, and bricolage, as well as through comic or
subversive modes such as parody or "poaching." Traditional scholarship in
some fields has tended to privilege the source or original. In this view,
appropriation implies adoption of a meaning inherent in the source,
usually because it was considered authoritative or prestigious.
Contemporary theories of various kinds have challenged this view of how
new values are constructed, arguing instead for the complex creation of
meaning in the process of reception.
This issue will focus on the problem of interpreting medieval and
early modern practices of appropriation by going beyond the disciplinary
boundaries that have largely circumscribed discussion up to now. Essays
should foster interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary consideration
informed by current theorizing on the topic of cultural appropriation.
Submission deadline (essays, not abstracts): 1 January 2001
Send two copies of the manuscript double-spaced, including endnotes,
following the style guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed.,
esp. chap. 15 on documentation). Papers accepted for publication will
need to be formatted more specifically, in hardcopy and diskcopy,
according to journal style. Any illustrations accompanying a manuscript
must be camera-ready, glossy prints and must be provided with permissions
for their reproduction no later than the submission deadline. For return
of manuscripts, please include an SASE. We do not consider articles that
have been published elsewhere or are under simultaneous consideration
with another publisher. Send to:
Michael Cornett, Managing Editor
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Duke University
Box 90656
Durham, NC 27708
JMEMS@duke.edu
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