CFP: [20th] Trialoguesânew online journal devoted to the study of contemporary literature

Trialogues—new online journal devoted to the study of contemporary
literature

Trialogues as an online journal is setting out to deal with contemporary
literature by entering into dialogic relations with writers, critics and
fans to produce a constant roving barrage of arguments about the meaning
of Literature.

Trialogues is concerned with thought experiment; with the testing of
written modes to redraw our interior maps of the literary and theoretical
landscapes.

Trialogues is fundamentally about peer debate and the critique of
judgement drawn from the fast and furious argument of the fanbase.

Our interest is chiefly in cult writing and contemporary literatures;
with the immediate and the ignored, the overlooked and the undervalued.
Notions we will constantly examine and interrogate are those
of “mainstream” versus “underground” writing and the “fringes”
and “margins” of culture.

Our critical approaches will vary: We will be deliberately political on
occasion, and proclaim so loudly, with a mind to interrogating
contemporary wisdom; deliberately out of step on occasion, with the hope
that this will allow us to cover the ground that others have stepped
over.

To this end we invite contributions from those with passionate interest
in contemporary writing. Our inaugural issue will be on the subject of
canonicity and the relative problems this notion raises:

‘The Canon versus Anti-Canons: Assault on Cultural Values or the Value of
Cultural Assault?’

 Possible topics include but are not limited to: ‘The Value(s)
of “Cult” Writing’; ‘Who Writes The Canon?’; ‘Immediacy in
Literature’; ‘Textual surface and textual audiences’; ‘Writing for “the
masses”’; ‘Tradition/Counter-Tradition’.
 Contributions to be between 2000 and 4000 words in length
 Send electronic copies by September 15th 2008 to either
mark.williams_at_uea.ac.uk or martyn.colebrook_at_english.hull.ac.uk

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