CFP: Literature and anxiety
The next special issue of the literary journal "Critical Issue" is devoted to the complex "fear and Literature" (via H-Germanistik ).
Deadline: 17 May 2010
The critical issue is looking for articles about "fear"!
Our next issue will deal with the complex "fear and literature."
Fear! What is fear? What's afraid to do with literature? It is difficult to define clearly the concept of fear. Fear is the description of "narrowness in the chest," a simple explanation? Or do you prefer as the Brothers Grimm, "is not afraid blosz discouragement, but nagging worry, doubting, constraining condition at all."? If we fear "as" the oldest and strongest emotion, as it writes HP Lovecraft, or according to Johann Georg Hamann, "about a" single proof of our heterogeneity, see? It can be approached "fear" of many different sides, and yet it seems that the term can never grasp exactly. It is indeterminate, the unknown, which dominates this feeling and it can be determined so hard.
And yet fear is something fundamental and one of every life. Therefore, it is not surprising that "fear of a large base motives" in the literature, as well as the "love". The fear of persecution will be processed just as in literature, such as the fear of writer's block. There are too many kinds of fear and represent at least as many different approaches and possibilities of these fears, illustrate, explore, question and debate.
For your next special issue seeks the "Critical Issue - Journal of Germanic and literature 'scientific contributions, which cover not only the Germanic perspective, but also texts from the field of philosophy, psychology or sociology, which, in the context of the topic, for example, the structural composition of text to devote the content topics, location and personal choice of contemporary or scientific front, the effects of history in the respective readers (also in historical context) and the Cycles of Fear literature. Likewise, authors or works Portraits on known or forgotten writers of the genre make a major contribution to the study of this literary complex.
The "critical issue" is a literary critical journal, published since 1997 in the context of today's Department of Germanic, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Bonn and was supplemented in 2004 with an online magazine. It was created by a student editorial to life and is aimed at a readership that is interested in historical and theoretical backgrounds of literary production and reception. According to recent publications on "family" and "Europe" is now the subject of "fear" in the center of the study.
Text should not exceed a length of 18,000 characters, including spaces and footnotes. First, we ask for a short exposé of not more than 3500 characters.
For Erich Kastner about fear and imagination were a direct connection: If someone was not afraid that he had no imagination, once he concluded. - In this sense, we look forward to their article suggestions!
Deadline for submissions is 17 May 2010.
If interested or questions please contact:
Ute Friedrich
Critical edition of Journal of Germanic and Literature
Institute of Germanic, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
the University of Bonn
Am Hof 1d, 53113 Bonn
0228 / 3 36 18 18
0171/43 17 809
friederich@kritische-ausgabe.de
http://www.kritische-ausgabe.de
