CFP: Writing the City: Studies in the Literary Imagination (7/31/05; journal issue)

Writing the City

This issue of the journal Studies in the Literary Imagination will be
guided by the assumption that studying the city allows us to grasp the
ways in which it is subtended by an order that is in a perpetual state of
derealization. The artistic and literary works studied in this volume do
not simply "represent" the city, as if a stable sociological form
underwrites the various stagings of metropolitan modernity. In fact,
these essays will show that the city disrupts the assumption that
realities can be simply rendered or represented in works of art; rather,
artistic works on the city can at best offer a single, possible, and above
all tentative glimpse into an urban reality that is always in transit.
Despite its appearance of ontological and sociological stability, the city
is a shifting series of images, signifiers, allegories, performers and
heterotopic sites.

Essays on any urban space are sought; the editors are interested in any
theoretical approach to the study of the city.

Queries may be sent to either of the editors, but decisions will only be
made on final papers. Essays must be submitted in hard copy to either
editor (no email submissions please) by July 31, 2005:

Dr. Robert Brazeau, Asst. Professor
Department of English and Film Studies
HC 3-5
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
T6G 2E5

Or

Dr. Michael Borshuk
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Texas Tech University
P.O. Box 43091
Lubbock, Texas
79409-3091

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