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Dear All, This should be of interest to everybody who atttended our conference in Manchester a.r. ---------- > From: Duncan Large <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Call for Contributors > Date: 07 April 1999 20:45 > > Call for Contributors > > The Encyclopedia of Life Writing, edited by Dr. Margaretta Jolly > > The Encyclopedia of Life Writing was commissioned in June 1998, and will > be published in 2000. It will be a large-scale guide to the various > forms of auto/biographical writing from around the world, and will > include entries on: genres and sub-genres; national/regional/language > traditions; important auto/biographical writers; as well as articles on > related areas such as oral history, anthropology, and testimonies. As > the interdisciplinary and broadly inclusive term "life writing" > suggests, the intent of this project is to explore not only > autobiography and biography, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family > histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have > been recorded. The entries will cover life writing from Classical times > to the present. > > Approximately two-thirds of the 650 entries have been assigned, so I am > now looking for further contributions across a range of subject areas > and language/national traditions: all the unassigned entries appear > below, in alphabetical order. Entries vary in length from 750 words to > 2,000 words. Each contributor will receive an honorarium, and all > entries are credited. Deadlines will depend on the number of entries > taken on and the project schedule. > > If you are interested in contributing, please send an email to: > [log in to unmask], > indicating the relevant entries. Assignments will be made weekly from > mid-April 1999. > > The Encyclopedia also has an editorial website at > http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/london/lifew.htm, where you can find > further details about the project, including the names of advisory board > members, sample entries, and a full list of the book's contents. NB, you > can also apply for any of the unassigned entries from this site. > > I hope that you will be able to take part in what has been a > well-received and exciting project so far, > > With thanks, > Dr. Margaretta Jolly, > Honorary Research Fellow, > University of Sussex > > (c/o M. Hawkins-Dady, Commissioning Editor, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers) > > Entries EntryType WordLength > > Africa: Apartheid & Post-Apartheid Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Africa: Auto/biographical Poetry National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Africa: European Exploration & Travel Writings National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Africa: Independence Movement Writings National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Africa: Oral Life Story Traditions National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1500 > Africa: Settler Writings (incl. Boers) National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1500 > Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Writers and Works 750 > Andersen Nexo, Martin Writers and Works 750 > Aranha, Jose Pereira de Graca Writers and Works 750 > Artefacts and Life Writing Contexts and Criticism 1000 > Aung San Suu Kyi Writers and Works 750 > Australia: 18th & 19th-century Diaries & Letters National and > Regional Traditions and Trends 1500 > Australia: 20th-century Diaries & Letters National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Australia: Indigenous Life Writing & Life Story Traditions National > and Regional Traditions and Trends 1500 > Autobiography and Fiction Genres and Forms 1500 > Autobiography Types: Criminal Genres and Forms 1000 > Autobiography Types: Literary Genres and Forms 1500 > Autobiography Types: Military Genres and Forms 1000 > Autobiography Types: Musical Genres and Forms 1000 > Autobiography Types: Philosophical Genres and Forms 1000 > Autobiography Types: Popular/Celebrity Genres and Forms 1500 > Autobiography Types: Theatrical and Cinematic Genres and Forms > 1500 > Autobiography: General Survey Genres and Forms 2500 > Autobiography: Survey Genres and Forms 2500 > Avvakum, Archpriest Writers and Works 750 > > Babur Writers and Works 750 > Barlach, Ernst Writers and Works 750 > Basho Writers and Works 750 > Bernhard, Thomas Writers and Works 750 > Biography and History Genres and Forms 1500 > Biography Types: Business Genres and Forms 1000 > Biography Types: Literary Genres and Forms 1500 > Biography Types: Medical Genres and Forms 1000 > Biography Types: Musical Genres and Forms 1000 > Biography Types: Popular/Celebrity Genres and Forms 1500 > Biography Types: Royal Genres and Forms 1000 > Biography Types: Scientific Genres and Forms 1500 > Biography: Survey Genres and Forms 2500 > Bismarck, Otto von Writers and Works 750 > Blixen, Karen [Isak Dinesen] Writers and Works 750 > Bok, Sisela Writers and Works 750 > Brandes, Georg Writers and Works 750 > Brazil: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional Traditions and > Trends 1500 > Breytenbach, Breyton Writers and Works 750 > Britain: Travel, Exploration & Imperial Expansion National and > Regional Traditions and Trends 1000 > > Canada: 20th-century Diaries & Letters National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1500 > Canada: Diaries & Letters to 1900 National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1500 > Canetti, Elias Writers and Works 750 > Caribbean, English: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Caribbean, French: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Carossa, Hans Writers and Works 750 > China: Classical Life Writing Forms: Survey National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Churchill, Winston Writers and Works 750 > Cicero Writers and Works 750 > Classical Greek and Roman Life Writing: Survey National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Collaborative Autobiography (incl. ghost-writing, etc.) Genres and Forms > 1000 > Collective Lives Genres and Forms 1000 > Conduct Books Genres and Forms 1000 > Confucianism and Life Writing Writers and Works 1000 > Czech & Slovak Life Writing: Survey National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > > De Gaulle, Charles Writers and Works 750 > Denmark: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional Traditions and > Trends 1500 > Dery, Tibor Writers and Works 750 > Diaz del Castillo, Bernal Writers and Works 750 > Dictionary of American Biography Writers and Works 750 > Dictionary of Australian Biography Writers and Works 750 > Dictionary of Canadian Biography Writers and Works 750 > Documentation and Sources: Forms and Uses Contexts and Criticism > 1500 > Drama and Auto/biography Genres and Forms 1500 > > East Africa: Life Writing Survey National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1500 > Eckermann, Johann Writers and Works 750 > Edel, Leon Writers and Works 750 > Edwards, Jonathan Writers and Works 750 > Elegies Genres and Forms 1000 > Ellman, Richard Writers and Works 750 > Emerson, Ralph Waldo Writers and Works 750 > Epitaphs Genres and Forms 1000 > Erasmus, Desiderius Writers and Works 750 > Ethics of Biography Contexts and Criticism 1000 > Ethnicity, Race and Life Writing Contexts and Criticism 1500 > Ewald, Johannes Writers and Works 750 > > Failure in Life Writings Themes 1000 > Fontane, Theodor Writers and Works 750 > Fontenelle, Bernard de Writers and Works 750 > France: 18th-century Auto/biography National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > France: 19th-century Auto/biography National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > France: 19th-century Diaries & Letters National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > France: 20th-century Diaries & Letters National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > France: Medieval Life Writing National and Regional Traditions and > Trends 1000 > > Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Writers and Works 750 > Geer, Louis de Writers and Works 750 > Genealogy Contexts and Criticism 1000 > Germanic Countries: 17th-18th century Diaries & Letters National and > Regional Traditions and Trends 1000 > Germanic Countries: 19th-century Diaries & Letters National and > Regional Traditions and Trends 1000 > Germanic Countries: 20th-century Auto/biography National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Germanic Countries: 20th-century Diaries & Letters National and > Regional Traditions and Trends 1000 > Ginzburg, Natalia Writers and Works 750 > Goethe, J.W. von Writers and Works 750 > Goncourt Brothers Writers and Works 750 > Gorz, Andre Writers and Works 750 > Gozzi, Carlo Writers and Works 750 > Greece, Modern: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Green, Julien Writers and Works 750 > Grillparzer, Franz Writers and Works 750 > Grove, Frederick Philip Writers and Works 750 > Guevara, Ernesto [Che] Writers and Works 750 > Guo Moruo Writers and Works 750 > Guzman Writers and Works 750 > > Handbooks and Guides to Life Writing Contexts and Criticism 1000 > Hauptmann, Gerhart Writers and Works 750 > Havel, Vaclav Writers and Works 750 > Heiberg, Johanne Luise Writers and Works 750 > Herling-Grudzinski, Gustaw Writers and Works 750 > Herzen, Aleksandr Writers and Works 750 > Hinduism and Life Writing Contexts and Criticism 1000 > Hofman, Eva Writers and Works 750 > Holberg, Ludvig Writers and Works 750 > > Idriss, Youssef Writers and Works 750 > Indian Subcontinent: 20th-century Life Writing to Partition National > and Regional Traditions and Trends 1000 > Indian Subcontinent: 18th-19th Centuries (incl. Travelogues National > and Regional Traditions and Trends 1500 > Indian Subcontinent: India after Partition National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Indonesia: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Ingatius Loyola Writers and Works 750 > Iran/Persia: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Islam and Life Writing Contexts and Criticism 1000 > Italy: 17th-18th Century Auto/biography National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Italy: 19th-century Diaries & Letters National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Italy: 20th-century Auto/biography National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Italy: 20th-century Diaries & Letters National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Italy: Medieval & renaissance Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > > Jameson, Anna Writers and Works 1000 > Japan: Classical Life Writing Forms National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1500 > Japan: Life Writing 19th Century to 1945 National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Japan: Life Writing after 1945 National and Regional Traditions and > Trends 1000 > Junger, Ernst Writers and Works 750 > > Kafka, Franz Writers and Works 750 > Kallas, Aino Writers and Works 750 > Kasinczy, Ferenc Writers and Works 750 > Kassak, Lajos Writers and Works 750 > Kazantzakis, Nikos Writers and Works 750 > Kierkegaard, Soren Writers and Works 750 > Korea, North and South: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Krleza, Miroslav Writers and Works 750 > > Levi, Carlo Writers and Works 750 > Love in Life Writing Themes 1500 > Lu Xun Writers and Works 750 > Luxembourg, Rosa Writers and Works 750 > > Malaysia & Singapore: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Malraux, Andre Writers and Works 750 > Mauriac, Claude Writers and Works 750 > Mehta, Ved Writers and Works 750 > Memoirs Genres and Forms 1500 > Meyer Jr., Augusto Writers and Works 750 > Middle East, Arabic: Autobiography Traditions National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Middle East, Arabic: Biography Traditions National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Middle East, Arabic: Travel Writings National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Molinos, Miguel de Writers and Works 750 > More, Bai T. Writers and Works 750 > Motila Writers and Works 750 > Murasaki Shikibu Writers and Works 750 > Myrdal, Jan Writers and Works 750 > > Naipaul, V.S. Writers and Works 750 > Narrative and Life Writing Contexts and Criticism 1500 > Nava, Pedro Writers and Works 750 > Neruda, Pablo Writers and Works 750 > Neue Deutsche Biographie Writers and Works 750 > New Zealand & Polynesia: 19th-Century Life Writing National and > Regional Traditions and Trends 1000 > New Zealand & Polynesia: Indigenous Life Writing National and > Regional Traditions and Trends 1000 > Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn Writers and Works 750 > Nikitenko, Aleksandr Writers and Works 750 > North Africa/Maghreb: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Norway: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional Traditions and > Trends 1000 > > Orality, Question of Contexts and Criticism 1500 > Ouyang Xiu Writers and Works 750 > > Painter, George Writers and Works 750 > Pasek, Jan Writers and Works 750 > Pavese, Cesare Writers and Works 750 > Paz, Octavio Writers and Works 750 > Picaresque Novel Genres and Forms 1500 > Plessen, Elisabeth Writers and Works 750 > Pliny the Younger Writers and Works 750 > Plutarch Writers and Works 750 > Political Uses of Life Writing Contexts and Criticism 1500 > Poniatowska, Elena Writers and Works 750 > Public Life in Life Writing Themes 1000 > > Qu Yuan Writers and Works 750 > > Ramos, Graciliano Writers and Works 750 > Reconciliation in Life Writing Themes 1500 > Recovery and Healing in Life Writing Themes 1500 > Rego, Jose Lins do Writers and Works 750 > Reminiscences, Recollections, Anecdotes Genres and Forms 1000 > Reuterdahl, Henrik Writers and Works 750 > Revelation in Life Writing Themes 1000 > Rolland, Romain Writers and Works 750 > Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Writers and Works 750 > Roy, Gabrielle Writers and Works 750 > > Sachs, Albie Writers and Works 750 > Saint-Simon, Louis de Writers and Works 750 > Sarton, May Writers and Works 750 > Schweitzer, Albert Writers and Works 750 > Semprun, Jorge Writers and Works 750 > Sexuality in Life Writing Themes 1500 > Sistren (Lionheart Gal) Writers and Works 750 > Sorabji, Cornelia Writers and Works 750 > Southern Africa: Life Writing Survey National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1500 > Spain: Life Writing: 18th & 19th Centuries National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Spain: Life Writing: 20th Century National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1500 > Spanish America: 15th-18th Century Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Spanish America: 19th-Century Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Spanish America: 20th century Diaries & Letters National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1500 > Spanish America: Indigenous/Oral Life Story Traditions National and > Regional Traditions and Trends 1000 > Sri Lanka/Ceylon: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional > Traditions and Trends 1000 > Stendhal Writers and Works 750 > Suetonius Writers and Works 750 > Sweden: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional Traditions and > Trends 1500 > Szechnyi, Istvan Writers and Works 750 > > Thailand/Siam: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > Tocqueville, Alexis de Writers and Works 750 > Toller, Ernst Writers and Works 750 > Troyat, Henri Writers and Works 750 > > USA: 18th-century Auto/biography National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > USA: 18th-century Diaries & Letters National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > USA: 19th-century Auto/biography National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > USA: 19th-Century Diaries & Letters National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > USA: 20th-century Auto/biography National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > USA: 20th-century Diaries & Letters National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1000 > USA: Pioneer and Captivity Writings National and Regional Traditions > and Trends 1500 > > Valdes, Hernan Writers and Works 750 > Velluti, Donato Writers and Works 750 > Vietnam: Survey of Life Writing National and Regional Traditions and > Trends 1000 > Villari, Pasquale Writers and Works 750 > > War Diaries and Journals Genres and Forms 1500 > War Letters Genres and Forms 1000 > War Narratives Genres and Forms 1500 > Welsh Life Writing: Survey National and Regional Traditions and > Trends 1000 > West and Central Africa, English-speaking: Survey National and > Regional Traditions and Trends 1500 > West and Central Africa, Francophone: Life Writing Survey National > and Regional Traditions and Trends 1500 > Wieland, Christoph Martin Writers and Works 750 > Winthrop, John Writers and Works 750 > World War II Life Writings Genres and Forms 1000 > > Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia: Life Writing Survey National > and Regional Traditions and Trends 1500 > > Zeromski, Stefan Writers and Works 750 > Zorilla y Moral, Jose Writers and Works 750 > Zuckmayer, Carl Writers and Works 750 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%