MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities
The MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities is an electronic publication forum intended to allow researchers to present initial findings or hypotheses such as might, at a more advanced stage, become eligible for publication in established scholarly journals. As such it will be of particular interest to postgraduate researchers, though established scholars are also invited to submit papers.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Contributions are now invited for the 2008 issue. A special, themed section of the journal will be dedicated to 'Translation, Adaptation and Transformation,' though papers on other topics are also welcome.
The third issue of the Working Papers will be published in November 2008, and the editorial panel aims to choose half of the papers from submissions that relate to the theme of 'Translation, Adaptation and Transformation'.
Authors might consider, among other things:
- the theory of literary and cultural translation/transfer
- the relationship between translation/adaptation and reception
- case studies of cultural/literary transfer and adaptation
- transformation, adaptation, translation or conversion as literary tropes/themes
- cultural transfers from East to West; high to low; male to female; straight to queer (and vice/versa)
- literary history and transformations across time
- transgender; transexuality; cross-dressing
- geographical transfer/exchange of people, ideas and culture: diaspora, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, transculturation, migration, emigration, immigration, racial passing
- rewriting, stage/film/literary adaptation, multimodal/transmedial representations
- conversion narratives
- makeovers, aesthetic transformation, modernization
- technology and knowledge transfer
Papers may come from any field in the 'modern humanities', which include the modern and mediaeval languages, literatures, and cultures of Europe (including English and the Slavonic languages, and the cultures of the European diaspora).
History, social sciences, library studies, education and pedagogy, and the medical application of linguistics are excluded.
THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 1 MAY, 2008.
In order to submit a paper, you are kindly requested to register as an author on the journal's website at http://www.mhra.org.uk/ojs/index.php/wph; thereafter, submissions may be made via the website or via email to the editors at postgrads@mhra.org.uk.
Queries or questions should be directed to the editors at postgrads@mhra.org.uk.
|
