Angela Carter — Resources

Still commemorating Angela Carter, twenty-five years after her death, here are some more useful links:

Here’s a great article by John Dugdale on Carter’s legacy, including her influence in music: ‘Angela’s influence: what we owe to Carter‘ (though some connections are a little strained, I think).

Here, on the brilliant Angela Carter OnlineCaleb Sivyer summarises Carter’s conversation with Terry Jonesthe BBC Arts video site, in ; the talk places particular emphasis on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (a tale which, along with its contemporary incarnations, is a preoccupation of mine at present).

Finally, Carter was a vividly insightful journalist; here’s a useful list of all the articles Carter wrote for The London Review of Books (though you need to be a subscriber to access some of the actual articles).

 

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CFP: Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-horror and the EcoGothic, Trinity College Dublin, 17-18 November 2017

CFP for a conference in Dublin, 17-18 November on Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-horror and the EcoGothic (deadline 2 April 2017):

Gothic and horror fictions have long functioned as vivid reflections of contemporary cultural fears. Wood argues that horror is ‘the struggle for recognition of all that our society represses or oppresses’, and Newman puts forward the idea that it ‘actively eliminates and exorcises our fears by allowing them to be relegated to the imaginary realm of fiction’.  Now, more than ever, the environment has become a locus of those fears for many people, and this conference seeks to investigate the wide range of Gothic- and horror-inflected texts that tackle the darker side of nature.

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CFA: Speculative Vegetation: Plants in Science Fiction

Call for article for a collection edited by Katherine E. Bishop, Jerry Määttä, and David Higgins, Speculative Vegetation: Plants in Science Fiction (deadline 30 April 2017):

This volume will be the first to investigate the importance of plants in science fiction. We encourage contributions contending with diverse works from any and all global, national, extranational, or regional positions and all periods. In particular, we welcome essays which consider genre with broader ethical, political, aesthetic, and historical concerns tied to the representation of botanical subjects and subjectivities in science fiction across all media.

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CFP: Space and place in Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture, Lancaster University, 23 June 2017

CFP for a conference at Lancaster University, Space and place in Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture (deadline 30 April 2017):

This conference responds to the genre of neo-Victorianism from the perspective of space and place. It aims to probe how a focus on space and place can enhance our understanding of the contemporary engagement with the Victorian past.

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CFP: Death and the Maiden, University of Winchester, 21-24 July 2017

Call for papers for an interdisciplinary conference exploring the relationship between women and death (deadline 19 May 2017):

Death and the Maiden has long been an artistic genre in the West, with its roots in the Dance Macabre tradition. In c1426, the English poet and Benediction monk, John Lydgate, adapted the Parisian cycle to include women with those taken away by a skeletal death, and in c1495, the German painter and printmaker, Albrecht Dürer, engraved a distinctly male death ravishing a young woman. But women’s connection with death go far deeper than the subject of art, for in the Greek and Roman times, it was a woman’s job to close the corpses eyes and mouth; indeed across time and space women have typically been the layers-out of the deceased.

From the practical to the representational, this interdisciplinary conference which is collaboration between the Dead Maidens, and Dr Christina Welch of the University of Winchester, seeks to draws widely on the connections between death and women, examining, exploring, and celebrating the intimate relationship between Death and the Maiden.

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CFA: The Spaces and Places of Horror

Calls for articles in a collection edited by Francesco Pascuzzi, The Spaces and Places of Horror, deadline 15 April 2017.

This volume aims to explore the complex, layered horizon of landscapes in horror film culture to unpack the use that the horror genre makes of settings, locations, spaces, and places, be they physical, imagined, or altogether imaginary. Different theoretical frameworks are welcome, and relevant comparative studies among American, European, and/or non-Western cinema are strongly encouraged.

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CFP: The Shelley Conference, Institute for English Studies, London, 15 September 2017

Call for papers for a one-day conference on Percy Bysse Shelley and Mary Shelley:

This one-day conference, held at the Institute for English Studies in central London, and supported by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, celebrates the writings of two major authors from the Romantic Period: Percy Bysshe Shelley (PBS) and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (MWS).

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CFP: Call for Papers: Translation Studies and Children’s Literature, Brussels and Antwerp, 19-20 October 2017

A conference in Belgium: Call for Papers: Translation Studies and Children’s Literature – Current Topics and Future Perspectives — deadline 15 March 2017.

Since the publication of pioneering works by Göte Klingberg, Riitta Oittinen and Zohar Shavit in the 1970s and 1980s, the translation of children’s literature has attracted the attention of many scholars in various fields. On 19 and 20 October 2017, KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp (Belgium) will organise an interdisciplinary conference on Translation Studies and Children’s Literature that aims to investigate the intersection between translation studies and children’s literature studies, offer a state of the art of current trends in the study of children’s literature in translation, and consider future perspectives for this field. How can the concepts, methods and topics used to study children’s literature contribute to the field of Translation Studies? What research questions are opened up by studying children’s books from a Translation Studies perspective? And what potential avenues have only recently been opened up, or remain as yet uncovered?

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CFP: C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings general issue

Articles on twenty-first century literature sought for the journal C21 Literature (deadline 1June 2017). There could be scope here for contemporary fantastic literature.

C21 Literature aims to create a critical, discursive space for the promotion and exploration of 21st century writings in English. It addresses a range of narratives in contemporary culture, from the novel, poem and play to hypertext, digital gaming and contemporary creative writing. The journal features engaged theoretical pieces alongside new unpublished creative works and investigates the challenges that new media present to traditional categorizations of literary writing. For its forthcoming issue, the journal welcomes articles, book reviews, opinion pieces, case studies and conference reports.

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CFP: Performing Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Lancaster University, April 28-29 2017

CFP for Fantastika’s 4th conference, on performing fantistika (deadline 1 March 2017):

The 4rd annual Fantastika conference will focus on performative bodies in fantastika. This includes performance in theatrical plays and films, as well as an examination of the body itself. How is the body performed and perceived in fantastika texts? How do fantastika texts and our interaction with fantastika texts modulate our understanding of performative bodies?

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