On May 3rd 2013, Call for papers for the eighth issue of "FORMA. Revista d'Estudis Comparatius. Art, Literatura i Pensament" (Journal of Comparative Studies. Art, Literature and Thought). The CFP is opened and addressed to scholars, PHD students or any researcher who holds at least a BA degree. We are looking for book reviews or academic articles in English, Spanish, Catalan, French or Italian.

You will find all information and the posting rules in http://www.upf.edu/forma/en/

In this occasion we are preparing a monographic that might be titled THE IMAGES OF THE BOOK. The articles must be in some way related to one of this topics or similar:

- The reality as a book

- The book and the power

- The iconography of the book

- The book as a metaphor

- The book as an allegory

- “The book of life”

- “The two books”

- The book as wisdom across cultures and history

- The book, the Word and Language

- The books and myths

- The book as a site of cultural memory

- Postmodern perspectives on the book

- The frontiers of the book

- Ancient books in the digital era

- The book and the end of the World

- The book and the film: writing with the camera

- Feminist perspectives on the book

- Architecture and the book

- Memory and the book

- Reading a book, watching a book

- The book as Western culture

- "Writing/reading the body" (the body as a book)

- The book of memory

- The book in Dante

- The book in Goethe

The deadline for submissions will be May 3rd 2013.

The articles will be sent to our mail: revista.forma@upf.edu. The subject of the email should state if it's an article or a review and the message will come with some information about the author: Name, Title of the article/review and Affiliation.