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------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Raleigh Whitinger <[log in to unmask]> The journal "Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies" invites article submissions to a Special Theme Issue entitled "Image, Body, Text," with Guest Editor Professor Timothy Mehigan, University of Otago, New Zealand. That our constructions of culture have a mental aspect, was highlighted in anthropology in the 1970s in the work of David Schneider and Roy Wagner and in political sociology in the early 1980s by Benedict Anderson. The study of literature has profited from this expansive notion of culture at a moment when its own classifications such as Literaturgeschichte and hermeneutics have been undergoing revision. New approaches to literature in an age of culture have underscored, among many other things, how literature is linked with cultural constructions such as the image (and thereby to a problematic of "seeing"), to natural science (and thereby to a problematic of "knowing"), and to philosophy (and thereby to a problematic of "awareness"). That literature also follows a model of culture in practice where meaning is imaginatively embodied, offers the new prospect of overcoming the old divide between mind and body, concept and performance. The goal of this special issue of Seminar is to reflect on the nature of the texts of modern culture - literary, visual and otherwise - illuminating moments of their construction as well as their dynamic embodiments as documents of culture in action. Submit manuscripts to Professor Tim Mehigan, Chair and Head, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago, by 1 September 2006. For further information contact: Guest Editor, Professor Timothy Mehigan, [log in to unmask] and/or Editor, Seminar, Raleigh Whitinger, [log in to unmask] Consult also: http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/seminar/