Organisers:
Prof. dr hab. Aniela Korzeniowska, University of Warsaw
Dr hab. Izabela Szymańska, University of Warsaw
Call for papers and more info: http://www.scotlandineurope.angli.uw.edu.pl/
Studies in Scottish Literature, founded in 1963 and based at the University of South Carolina since 1965, is the leading international refereed scholarly journal in its field, publishing new research and critical debate on all periods of Scottish literature. It is published in both print and digital format, hosted through the University’s Scholar Commons site, with free searchable full-text access now available for the full journal run (vols. 1-39, 1963-2013).
In Bannockburns: Scottish Independence and the Literary Imagination, 1314-2014 poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum Scottish independence.
Here is an interesting review of the book from TLS: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1377172.ece
The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (http://dragon.klte.hu/~hjeas/) is a peer-reviewed journal of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary and is available from JSTOR and ProQuest. Editor: Donald E. Morse. Part of volume 21 (2015) will be devoted to Scottish Studies; guest editor: Attila Dósa (University of Miskolc, Hungary).
In Scotland, the last few decades saw two referenda on the decentralisation of political decision-making and the country is now on the doorstep of a third referendum to gain independence. The growing self-confidence in politics has been matched with a growing confidence in fields of cultural production including, most notably, literature. Though political notions of nationalism seem to have been losing ground in certain contexts, it is hard to see the 2014 referendum as other than a wished-for
(at least by some) culmination for the age-old struggle for self-determination. At the same time, literature seems to have entered a post-national phase and critical discourses currently in vogue have been using the rhetoric of hybridism and diversity with an aim to divest it of essentialist or nationalist undertones even though Scottish literature was especially rich in both in the 1970s–1980s. Due to recent changes in politics and an impressive growth of literary production, and with the expansion of the field of Scottish Studies over the borders of Scotland, in the past few decades criticism has followed suit and theoretical structures are being revised or done with altogether at great speed. But where is the field now?
HJEAS invites contributions exploring the present state of Scottish Studies with reference but not limited to the following topics:
Please send a proposal (200 words) accompanied by a short CV to the guest editor, Attila Dósa aitdosa@uni-miskolc.hu
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2014
Delivery of completed papers: 31 August 2014
Contributions should conform to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook. Contributions on history may use the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
Further information on formatting: http://dragon.klte.hu/~hjeas/submitting-manuscripts.html
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