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Profs. Hélène Bilis and Ellen McClure invite proposals for a volume entitled Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy to appear in the Options for Teaching Series published by the Modern Languages Association. A guiding question for our volume will be: why teach French neoclassical tragedy, and why now?

The purpose of this volume is to allow faculty teaching across the academic spectrum, in a wide variety of disciplines, to introduce French neoclassical tragedies to students in a manner that emphasizes both the corpus’s irreducible strangeness and its piercing relevance to our own troubled and transitional times. The volume will be keen to showcase essays that seek to move past, or at least rethink, categories that in large part were imposed on this corpus during the past three hundred years. Essays that place the theatrical texts in productive dialogue with salon culture, the rise of the novel, developments in philosophy and science will be of particular interest, as will contributions that restore women to their status as full participants- as spectators, critics, and playwrights- in the theatrical conversation. In addition, we will also welcome submissions by scholars attentive to the newly emergent global history who draw attention to French neoclassical theater’s engagement with ideas and works from other national traditions, including European colonial expansion and Francophone spaces beyond metropolitan France. In short, we hope to establish a bidirectional conversation between specialists and non-specialists that will open this compellingly complex corpus to new perspectives and audiences.

Although all the essays will have primarily pedagogical aims, the volume will dedicate a section devoted to nuts and bolts issues in the classroom, with essays that outline successful assignments and practices. We will be careful to address a range of challenges and concerns that would be pertinent to a diversity of institutional settings and a variety of pedagogical formats: early modern courses, survey courses, first-year writing courses, comparative approaches to tragedy, seminars on politics and literature, and courses in translation. Finally, we hope to present innovative work on neoclassical tragedy in a variety of Digital Humanities approaches.

Please send 2-page CV and 500-word proposals for essays of 3,000–3,500 words by August 1, 2016 to hbilis@wellesley.eduand ellenmc@uic.edu. Proposals should include the name(s) of the writer(s) proposed for discussion and the argumentative thrust of the proposed article as well as clear pedagogic implications.

Depuis 1984, la Société d’étude du XVIIe Siècle (http://www.17esiecle.fr) décerne chaque année un Prix XVIIe Siècle assorti d’une somme de 2000 euros. Ayant pour but d’encourager la diffusion d’un savoir rigoureux auprès du plus large public, ce Prix récompense, sans exclusive de discipline, un ouvrage traitant du XVIIe siècle, paru l’année précédente.

Les candidats au Prix XVIIe Siècle pour un ouvrage paru en 2015 peuvent adresser leur livre jusqu’au 31  mars 2016 au Président de la Société d’étude du XVIIe Siècle,

Monsieur Jean-Robert Armogathe
Institut Bossuet
6 rue Guynemer
75006 PARIS

Merci de noter que les ouvrages ne seront pas retournés.

Le prix 2014 de la Société d’Etude du XVIIe siècle, remis en 2015, a été attribué à Mme Nathalie LECOMTE pour son ouvrage Entre cours et jardins d’illusions. Le ballet en Europe (1515-1715), Paris, Centre National de la Danse, 2014.

Source: Dramatica (Lise Michel)

MLA Philadelphia 2017

Call for Papers:  LLC 17th-Century French

Guaranteed Sessions:

“Biography:”  

Stories, both past and contemporary, of real-life characters; portraits, episodes, anecdotes,

and news as they relate to the general meaning and experience of a life; the intersection

of reality, fiction, and style.  300-word abstract by March 15; Jean-Vincent Blanchard

(jblanch1@swarthmore.edu).

"Constructing Realities--Fiction and Meta-Fiction: relations between history/reality and

fictional worlds, quest for truth and its ﴾im﴿ possibilities in fiction, relationship between

truth/reality and power structures. 300-word abstracts by March 15; Valentina Denzel,

vdenzel@msu.edu"

Non-Guaranteed Session:  (subject to approval by the MLA program committee once the

panelists are chosen)

 “Translating the Seventeenth Century for/in the Twenty-First Century”

Problematics/boundaries of translating classical texts, impact of translations on the

construction and perceptions of classical culture; translating the ancien régime for today’s

public, including digital forms.  300-word abstracts by March 15 to

Faith.Beasley@Dartmouth.edu

Call for Papers

VERSUS

Antagonism, Self-Criticism and Hostility in Literature and Art

Keynote Speakers:

Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law, Florida

Nathalie Hester, Associate Professor of Italian and French, University of Oregon

International University

The Department of German & Romance Languages & Literatures (GRLL)

September 16-17, 2016

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

For this interdisciplinary conference, the graduate students of GRLL at Hopkins invite proposals for papers

on contention in literature, whether between two authors, between authors and their editors and publishers,

between authors and their readers, between an author and him- or herself, or on contention within works

themselves. We are interested in presentations that grapple not just with the problematic character of a work

but also with the questions this raises for editors, scholars, consumers and other artists impacted by the

original offense. How does this type of critique shape these professional and personal relationships? How

do we, as readers and scholars, interpret authorial self-criticism and hostility toward others in literature?

And what are the specific literary and rhetorical techniques or genres of contention or of “versus”? We

welcome papers in the fields of German, French, Italian, and Spanish language and literature, as well as

English, History, Art History, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature.

Potential subjects include, but are not limited to:

● Self-censorship and auto-critique

● Deliberately antagonistic prose/poetry/manifestos

● Literature presenting or posing ethical problems

● Questions of authority in editorial history (i.e. publishing corrupted or aggressively

● Forgeries, piracies and pseudonymies

● Cryptographic, hostile or unpublishable literature

● Editorial manipulation and exploitation of authors and/or artists  

Send a 250-word abstract for a 15 to 20-minute-long talk (in English) to

grllgradconference@gmail.com by April 1, 2016. Please include your title,

affiliation, and contact information.