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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