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Dear Colleagues,
Please find below the call for papers for the volume "The Thin Mediterranean Line. Alterity in Epic Poetry Between XVIth and XVIIth Century".
AIM OF THE VOLUME
The aim of this volume is to compare different points of view on the theme of “alterity” as it is represented in European Epic, in order to foster a reflection on the differences of those cultures that overlook the Mediterranean or share a link to it. Just like the Mediterranean basin has always been a place of exchange, a link to contrast/compare different civilisations (even distant ones that in the XIV century came into conflict with each other), Epic poetry has always been, indeed, the perfect place where authors have literally painted the contact with the “different”. A contact that can be a collision, like the Lepanto victory, emphasised as a salvific although ephemeral event, but also – most of all in great authors – an occasion for curiosity and tolerance; a way to find a contact between differences. Thus, the intention of the volume is to give the appropriate space to critical studies reflecting on national epic poetry – Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese, but also poems of those countries communicating with the Mediterranean world – where epic code is used as a system that deeply reveals and represents the complexities of reality. Poems where authors reflect on the theme of “difference” and on distance that separates different societies.
Contributions can consider for their analysis poems – or other typically epic textual forms – believed to be particularly representative of all the themes aforementioned, by taking into account texts individually, or organised as an intra-textual comment, following one of the research topics listed below.
NATURE OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS
Critical and philological analyses will be accepted and those should testify the way in which the literal text represent alterity. This call accepts themes such as:
• The enemy seen not only as someone different but even as a human being like anyone else, as someone that has to be fought for political necessities (in authors that consider war not as a necessity but as a simple continuation of politics in the battlefield)
• The research of a commonality in foreign people that goes beyond religion through the research of a shared cultural, expressive and social code – like the knightly one, shared beyond political blocks.
• The research of an affinity, a feeling of compassion for the enemy, that is a man, in the fields of affection shown in the texts.
• A conception of geography seen as a cultural space where the theme of the border is the focal point of a conversation based on how identities can meet and merge.
• Utopian and mutinous views of differences; allegories of conflicts.
APPLICATIONS: TIMELINE AND DEADLINES
To candidate please send and abstract – one page long and where there will be specified the editorial criteria – together with a short biography to [log in to unmask] Please, specify “Application Abstract – Call For Papers” as object of your e-mail.
The submission of the abstracts: by the end of June 15th 2017
The admission of abstracts will be communicated only to the selected contributors by June 30th 2017.
The submission of contributions is due on September 15th 2017 to the same e-mail address ([log in to unmask]). Please, specify “Contribution – War diaries – Name and Surname” as object of your email.
LAYOUT OF THE CONTRIBUTION,
The maximum length of the contribution can go up to 40.000 characters. Every contribution should contain a critical analysis of one or more epic poems, gather together in a significant path (as was previously said) and a bibliography.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSOCIATION AND OF THE EDITED VOLUME
Founded in 2009 with the aim of contributing to the advancement of the cultural welfare and of the young people’s cultural well-being in the North-East of Italy, IoDeposito NGO (www.iodeposito.org) works nowadays on an international scale together with a network of partners from Italy and the World (Museums, Universities, Academy, Public Institutions). It has involved around a hundred thousand people in its projects (workshops, laboratories, cultural events, conferences, publications). It has developed a unique expertise in the organisation of artistic and cultural events as well as in the research field dealing with the theme of memories and memoirs of war.
Committed to the analysis of the heritage that has connected contemporary wars to our everyday life, this association has decided to increase its field of interest to epic poems of the Renaissance, to that filed of Literature that has transmitted to a large public news visions and symbols of the “stranger” the “foreign”. Thus, IoDeposito has decides to promote the publication of a volume of papers revolving around these themes including not only the “occidental” points of views but even those of other cultures, in order to give birth to a deep reflection on “culturally different”. The main goal of the edited volume, which will be published both in Italian and in English, is to investigate epic poems as privileged instrument where great authors of the past have traced a path of tolerance that goes beyond differences; poems that paint a world that is infinitely multifaceted and equally and deeply always the same.
For further information, please contact:
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Best wishes,
Tancredi Artico
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