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With two world wars fought within a span of thirty-one years, and at least five major international conflicts ravaging the humanity, twentieth century, according to Isaiah Berlin, William Golding, and René Dumont, has had been the most violent period in entire human history. Naill Ferguson regards the century also as the most destructive one for the empires. The consequent human annihilations, sufferings, hatred, suspicion, paranoia, and a perception of the ending of imperialism came to be reflected in the literatures written during the 20th century, especially in England and the United States of America, both of which were drawn into the two global belligerences and together lost approximately two million people – military and civilians. In “The Second Coming” (1919), W. B. Yeats justly described the European situation in the late 1910s as: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” (l. 3-4). English and American writings of the twentieth century – irrespective of their genres – demonstrate an awareness of the turmoil and disintegration, the world was facing in the wake of and as aftermath of the destructive belligerences. In this line, we are thinking to edit present anthology of critical essays.
Disintegration, despair, disillusionment, and paranoia became defining features of what literary historians and critics like Andrew Sanders, Edward Albert, and M.H.Abrams identified as ‘modern literature’ – that is, literature of the 20th century: the Anglo-American section comprising of such diverse genres and subgenres as war poems by Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Joyce Kilmer, Archibald MacLeish, Keith Douglas, and Alun Lewis; T.S.Eliot, W.B.Yeats, and Ezra Pound’s poetry of disintegration, novels by D.H.Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemingway, and other writers of the Lost Generation; and plays by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams and so on, other than literary criticism and prose writings.
The Centre Cannot Hold: Disintegration in the Twentieth Century Anglo-American Literature proposes to collect essays on canonical and non-canonical 20th century British and American writings of different genres to show how disillusionment, despair, and disintegration became the defining features of modernist writings.
Editing requirements:
· Paper size: A4, Font & size: Times New Roman 12, Spacing: Single line, Margin of 1 inch on all four sides.
· Title of the paper: bold, title case (Capitalize each word), centered.
· Text of the paper: justified. Font & size: Times New Roman 12.
· References: Please follow M.L.A. style (Only Author-Date or Number System) strictly. Don’t use Foot Notes. Instead use End Notes.
· Titles of books: Italics.
· Titles of articles from journals and books: “quoted”.
· Articles should be submitted as M.S. Word 2003-2007attachments only.
· The paper should not usually exceed 14 pages maximum, 5 pages minimum in single spacing.
· Each paper must be accompanied by i) A declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else or send for publication ii) Abstract of paper about 100-200 words and iii) A short bio-note of the contributor(s) indicating name, institutional affiliation, brief career history, postal address, mobile number and e-mail, in a single attachment. Please don’t send more attachments. Give these things below your paper and send all these things in a separate single M.S.-Word attachment.
· The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing new knowledge or innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored.
Mode of Submission:
Each contributor is advised to send full paper with brief bio-note, declaration and abstract as a single MS-Word email attachments, with the subject and topic clearly mentioned, to anyone of the email addresses: cfpproy@gmail.com and monkaaroy@gmail.com up to 30th October, 2011.
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