We are delighted to announce the publication of 'Fear and Terror',
issue two of Forum, the University of Edinburgh's Postgraduate E-Journal
of Culture and the Arts.
Below is information about the contents of our current issue and the
call for papers for issue three, 'Chance and Control', due out in
Autumn 2006. Please pass this information on to anyone that might be
interested.
Many thanks.
The editorial board
'Fear and Terror' (spring 2006)
Contents:
Guest Article:
Desperado Literature: A Rewriting of Fear as Terror, as Illustrated by
Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005)
Lidia Vianu, poet, novelist, literary critic and Professor of English
Literature at Bucharest University
Articles:
"Bonnie und Kleid": Female Terrorists and the Hysterical Feminine
Clare Bielby, University of Edinburgh
Notes on the Terror Film
Keith Brown, University of Edinburgh
The Grotesque Sublime: Play with Terror
Shun-liang Chao, University College London
The Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom: Revelling in the Natural
Law of Libertinage
Amanda Di Ponio, University of St Andrews
Terrorism and Its Metaphors
Mark Fabiano, Wright State University
Re-reading Adorno: The 'after-Auschwitz' Aporia
Elaine Martin, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Sensationalism and Supersensibility: Eighteenth-Century Literary Terror
Divided
Christopher Stokes, University of Sussex
Reviews:
Terry Eagleton, Holy Terror
Claire Altree, University of Edinburgh
CALL FOR PAPERS (Autumn 2006) - Chance and Control
The autumn 2006 issue of Forum addresses the interrelated concepts of
chance and control.
Notions such as freewill and determinism, structure and agency, and
order and chaos have long informed the practice of literature, art,
music, cinema, performance and other cultural forms, prompting questions
such as:
* What is the nature of the interactions between art and rules,
ownership, imagination, generic convention and/or a creator
figure?
* Is there a relationship between (un)certainty and the
(post)modern
condition?
* If there are rules of artistic creation, how are they
influenced by
gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality etc.?
Areas for discussion might include:
* Politics and the rule of law
* Dissident ideas and official voices
* The media and censorship
* Evolution and revolution
* Heuristics and stochastics
* Identity, discipline and excess
* The planned and the random
* Description and prescription
* Games of narrative and language
* Postmodernity and uncertainty
* Structures of opportunity and risk
* Emancipation and imprisonment
It should be noted that these are suggestions and other interpretations
of the theme are welcome.
The deadline for article submissions is 14th July 2006. Papers should
be between 3,000 and 5,000 words and formatted in accordance with the
MLA guidelines and should be submitted by email (address below).
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