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    journal of the theoretical humanities

             Special Issue (5.1)


         > POETRIES UNDER STRESS <
     > THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE WORD <
              (working titles)


   Edited by Anthony Mellors & Robert Smith


Whereas in Europe and the United States innovative
poetry has never ceased to be regarded as culturally
valuable, in Britain it has been virtually ignored
by the literary establishment. Conservative notions
of forms of expression appropriate to the 'national'
character are more deeply entrenched in poetry than
in music and the plastic arts, where the line of
modernist experimentation continues and openness to
international crosscurrents is the norm. In contrast,
formal experimentation in British poetry tends to be
viewed as strictly the domain of foreigners. Yet
postwar poetry in Britain and Ireland has achieved a
diversity of forms which goes far beyond such
parochialism.

An important purpose of this issue of Angelaki is to
explore the 'foreignness' inside British poetry.
But the issue also seeks to represent a wide range
of international writing; to explore the
internationalism of modern poetry per se.

Subject matter remains relatively open, but the editors
are particularly interested in discussions of modernism,
postmodernism, the international politics of poetry, and
issues of translation and hermeneutics.


Deadlines

1000-word abstracts by January 31, 1999.

Finished work by May 31, 1999.

Work will be subject to peer review.

In the first instance, please send three
copies of material to:

Gerard Greenway
Managing Editor
Angelaki
44 Abbey Road
Oxford OX2 0AE
United Kingdom

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_Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities_ is
published three times a year by Carfax Publishing
Limited. The journal publishes two theme issues and
one general issue per volume. ISSN: 0969-725X.

_Angelaki_ was selected Best New Journal in the 1996
Council of Editors of Learned Journals Awards.

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Gerard Greenway

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A N G E L A K I A N G E L A K I HUMANITIES
journal of the theoretical humanities book series
Carfax Publishing Limited Manchester University Press
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