I am organizing a panel for the 2009 Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA.org) conference on: The Short Story (Novella) from Boccaccio to the Present.
The conference will take place in Boston, Feb. 26-March 1, 2009. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Sept. 15, 2008.
Any questions, comments, etc. are welcome and may be addressed directly to me at rnicosia@eden.rutgers.edu.
Roberto Nicosia
Rutgers University - Department of Italian,
84 College Ave
08901 - New Brunswick (NJ)
The panel wants to promote and welcome papers (and above all interdisciplinary discussions) on the pivotal role of the Short Story in the Italian literature and the characteristics of this particular genre through topics related to gender studies, cultural theory, eco-criticism, representation of the body, pedagogy, comparative literature, linguistics, history of literature, history, etc...Given the broad range of the years and production involved, the file rouge of the panel will be, primarily, the investigation of the evolution of the Short Story: its tipology, its sources and models, its text organization and circulation, the reception etc...So to recreate a sort of unity, although the very specific differences.
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