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Theories, Interpretations, Contexts open access | peer reviewed
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English Literature. Theories, Interpretations, Contexts was founded within the National Association of Teachers of English Studies (ANDA) in 2014. Presently, the journal is run by an independent board of scholars in English literature. It provides room for a critical analysis of issues and themes concerning English literature, also in a comparative view. The journal wants to promote a multidisciplinary approach to literature, to its relations with the various fields of knowledge, with culture, society, science, and the arts. It is also proposed as a privileged place for the discussion of the tools and strategies used by literature, according to various theoretical perspectives. The journal promotes the discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers, teachers and young scholars at both an international and national level.
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- Emma Sdegno, Simone Francescato
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- Revisioning the Image
- Paul Tucker
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- The “Whitelands Index”: The Making of John Pincher Faunthorpe’s Index to Fors Clavigera
- Satomi Hanazumi
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- “The Interwoven Temper of my Mind”: Ruskin and Adaptation
- Emma Sdegno, Simone Francescato
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- John Ruskin and Climate
- Francesca Orestano
- March 7, 2025 | 11 | 2024
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- William Bainbridge
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- Mark Usher
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- Georg Gruber
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- Infinite Jest’s Voice(s)
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- “I Am in Here”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
- Allard den Dulk
- March 16, 2022 | 8 | 2021
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- Introduction
- Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero
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- The Triumph of the Will of Athletes in Infinite Jest
- Jamie Redgate
- March 16, 2022 | 8 | 2021
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- Wallace After Postmodernism (Again): Metamodernism, Tone, Tennis
- Timotheus Vermeulen
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- Memories of the Limbaugh Administration
- Jeffrey Severs
- March 16, 2022 | 8 | 2021
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- Marco Canani
- March 16, 2022 | 8 | 2021
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- Transgression vs the Politically Correct: Phases and Faces of a Core Category in Children’s Literature
- Francesca Orestano
- March 16, 2022 | 8 | 2021
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- Hidden Gems
- Mary Shapiro
- March 16, 2022 | 8 | 2021
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- The Politically Incorrect and Its Limits in Late Twentieth-Century Youth Literature
- Sylvie Servoise
- March 16, 2022 | 8 | 2021
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- Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fin-de-Siècle Vampire
- Angelo Riccioni
- Dec. 21, 2020 | 7 | 2020
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- Foley Effects in the Gothic
- John Bender
- Dec. 21, 2020 | 7 | 2020
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- Luca Baratta
- Dec. 21, 2020 | 7 | 2020
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- The Supernatural Subject of the Sublime in Burke and Radcliffe: A Reading of The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Zak Watson
- Dec. 21, 2020 | 7 | 2020
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- “Things that Make One Doubt if They be Mad or Sane”
- Laura Giovannelli
- Dec. 21, 2020 | 7 | 2020
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- Beyond the Boundaries of Realism
- Julie Gay
- Dec. 21, 2020 | 7 | 2020
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- Realism and the Supernatural in Ghost Stories of the Fin de Siècle
- Nick Freeman
- Dec. 21, 2020 | 7 | 2020
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- Literary Transmigration
- Rebecca Soares
- Dec. 21, 2020 | 7 | 2020
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- Introduction: The Supernatural between Fact and Fiction, from the Gothic to the Fin de Siècle
- Flavio Gregori, Elisa Bizzotto
- Dec. 21, 2020 | 7 | 2020
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- The Problem of Completeness in Henry James’s The Spoils of Poynton
- Gary Totten
- March 9, 2020 | 6 | 2019
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- Željka Flegar
- March 9, 2020 | 6 | 2019
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- Silvana Colella
- March 9, 2020 | 6 | 2019
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- George Gissing: A Story of English Realism
- Rebecca Hutcheon
- March 9, 2020 | 6 | 2019
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- Gail Marshall
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- Ann-Marie Richardson
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- Introduction
- Luisa Villa
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- Karin Kukkonen
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- Jorge Figueroa
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- Daniel Johnson
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- Ildiko Csengei
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- Blackwell Anna
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- Leitch Thomas
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- Elaine Indrusiak
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- Alessandra Violi
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- Judith Hawley
- Dec. 18, 2017 | 4 | 2017
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- Margaret A. Doody
- Dec. 18, 2017 | 4 | 2017
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- The Rhetoric of Passions in John Tillotson's Sermons
- Regina Maria Dal Santo
- Dec. 18, 2017 | 4 | 2017
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- Fears, Apprehensions and Conjectures
- Riccardo Capoferro
- Dec. 18, 2017 | 4 | 2017
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- “So Shall She Now the Softest Coulours Chuse/To Paint thy Fate & Shadow out thy Woes”
- Lucia Quinault
- Dec. 18, 2017 | 4 | 2017
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- Aesthetic Cognition
- Michael Mckeon
- Dec. 18, 2017 | 4 | 2017
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- The Hurry and Uproar of Their Passions
- Katarzyna Kozak
- Dec. 18, 2017 | 4 | 2017
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- Does Italy Need Postcolonial Theory?
- Sandra Ponzanesi, Goffredo Polizzi
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- Derek Mahon’s Take on Italy
- Irene De Angelis
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- Post-Colonial Memories
- Paola Pastacaldi
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- Italy in Postcolonial Discourse
- Carmen Concilio
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- Introduction
- Flavio Gregori, Roberta Cimarosti
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- Italy, World War II and South African Poetry
- Marco Fazzini
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- From Galileo to Aldo Moro
- Paola Della Valle
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- The Poetry of Belonging
- Chris Mann
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- Peter Blum’s ‘Kaapse Sonette’ and Giochino Belli’s Sonetti Romaneschi
- Tony Voss
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- Modern and Post-Modern Rome in Irish Travel Writing
- Donatella Badin
- Dec. 23, 2016 | 3 | 2016
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- «Sensational nonsense»
- Raffaella Antinucci
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- The Chemistry of Taste
- Francesca Orestano
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- «The mind washes its hands in a basin»
- Silvana Colella
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- «You’re obliged to have recourse to bodies»
- Anne-Marie Beller
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Hopkins’s Poetic Porcupines and the Aesthetic of Taste
- Jude V. Nixon
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Transgressive Art «Before the Mirror»
- Roger Ebbatson
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Impure Researches, or Literature, Marketing and Aesthesis
- Andrew King
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- The Sacred in Pater’s Aesthetic
- Maria Luisa De Rinaldis
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Consumerism, Celebrity Culture and the Aesthetic Impure in Oscar Wilde
- Pierpaolo Martino
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Fact and Taste
- Saverio Tomaiuolo
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Morbid Taste, Morbid Anatomy and Victorian Popular Literature
- Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Introduction
- Mariaconcetta Costantini
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Starving by Numbers
- Andrew S. Mangham
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Late Victorian Modes of the Aesthetic Impure
- Gilles Menegaldo
- Dec. 1, 2015 | 2 | 2 | 2015
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- Happy Face or Happy Space?
- Kevin L. Cope
- June 30, 2015 | 2 | 1 | 2015
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- The Spectator, Aesthetic Experience and the Modern Idea of Happiness
- Brian Michael Norton
- June 30, 2015 | 2 | 1 | 2015
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- John Tillotson, Self-love and the Teleology of Happiness
- Regina Maria Dal Santo
- June 30, 2015 | 2 | 1 | 2015
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- Introduction
- June 30, 2015 | 2 | 1 | 2015
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- «Nothing Better than Mirth and Hilarity»
- Abigail Williams
- June 30, 2015 | 2 | 1 | 2015
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- English Literature 2 | 1 | 2015 Fascicolo Completo
- June 30, 2015 | 2 | 1 | 2015
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- Happiness and Ideological Reconfiguration in the Revolutionary Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays (1788-1799)
- Isabelle Bour
- June 30, 2015 | 2 | 1 | 2015
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- Jonathan Swift: Defeat, Isolation, and the Price of Failed Norms
- Howard Weinbrot
- June 30, 2015 | 2 | 1 | 2015
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- «The Multiplicity of Agreeable Consciousness»
- Rudolf Freiburg
- June 30, 2015 | 2 | 1 | 2015
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- Radical Carnivalisation of Religion in Erasmus’s The Praise Of Folly
- Sarbani Chaudhury
- Dec. 1, 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2014
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- «Let savage Beasts lodge in a Country Den»
- Milena Romero Alluè
- Dec. 1, 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2014
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- Introduction
- Silvia Bigliazzi
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- God-Language and Scepticism in Early Modern England
- Wiliam Hamlin
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- Shaping Scepticism, Arousing Belief
- Alessandra Marzola
- Dec. 1, 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2014
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- Webster’s Geometry; or, the Irreducible Duchess
- Benjamin Bertram
- Dec. 1, 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2014
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- The Logic of Excess
- Carmen Gallo
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- Sceptical Responses in Early Modern Plays
- Lucia Nigri
- Dec. 1, 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2014
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- «For thou must now know farther»
- Alessandra Squeo
- Dec. 1, 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2014
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- English Literature 1 | 1 | 2014 Fascicolo completo
- Dec. 1, 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2014
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- Of Lords and Stars
- Patrizia Grimaldi-Pizzorno
- Dec. 1, 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2014
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- 10 | 2023
- Roberta Maierhofer, Michael Fuchs
- Feb. 6, 2024
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- April 13, 2023
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- 8 | 2021
- March 16, 2022
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- 7 | 2020
- Elisa Bizzotto, Flavio Gregori
- Dec. 21, 2020
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- 6 | 2019
- March 9, 2020
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- 5 | 2018
- Dec. 17, 2018
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- 4 | 2017
- Flavio Gregori
- Dec. 18, 2017
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- 3 | 2016
- Roberta Cimarosti
- Dec. 23, 2016
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- 2 | 2 | 2015
- Maria Concetta Costantini
- Dec. 1, 2015
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- 2 | 1 | 2015
- Flavio Gregori
- June 30, 2015
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- 1 | 1 | 2014
- Silvia Bigliazzi
- Dec. 1, 2014
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Human Generations and the Environmental Crisis in Literature, Film, and Other Media
Feb. 6, 2024 -
9 | 2022
April 13, 2023 -
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
March 16, 2022 -
The Representation of the Wonderful and the Preternatural between the Gothic Novel and Fin-de-Siècle Literature
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Fictions, Facts and ‘Effects of Reality’: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth Century
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5 | 2018
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Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England
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Italy through Postcolonial Eyes
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1 | 1 | 2014
Dec. 1, 2014
Flavio Gregori, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Editorial Board
Silvia Bigliazzi, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia
Elisa Bizzotto, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italia
Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland, USA
Rocco Coronato, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia
Mariaconcetta Costantini, Università degli Studi «G. d’Annunzio», Chieti-Pescara, Italia
Gregory Dowling, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
David Newbold, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Advisory Board
Paolo Bertinetti, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia
Isabelle Bour, Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Paul Crosthwaite, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Peter De Voogd, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Christoph Ehland, Universität Paderborn, Germany
William B. Gerard, Auburn University at Montgomery, USA
Paul Goring, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Trondheim, Norway
Peter Hunt, Cardiff University-Prifysgol Caerdydd, UK
Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto, Canada
Allan Ingram, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK
Jason Lawrence, University of Hull, UK
Jakub Lipski, Kazimierz Wielki University Bydgoszcz, Poland
John Mullan, University College London, UK
Jude V. Nixon, Salem State University, USA
Antonella Riem Natale, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia
Biancamaria Rizzardi, Università di Pisa, Italia
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Université Toulouse 2 Le Mirail, France
Luisa Villa, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italia
Alex Woloch, Stanford University, USA
Nathalie Zimpfer, École Normale Supérieure Lyon, France
Direttore responsabile
Giuseppe Sofo, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The journal English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send to send article proposals for a special issue on
Solidarity—Responsibility—Culpability—Cooperation
Generations and the Environmental Crisis in Literature, Film, and Other Media
edited by Roberta Maierhofer (University of Graz, Austria) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
When Amitav Ghosh identifies “a crisis of the imagination” and suggests that climate fiction creates thought experiments that challenge the status quo, he positions cultural representations as voices of political resistance. As linguist Arran Stibbe has shown, the discourses of our everyday lives are permeated by stories that either endorse our destruction of the natural world or foster care and respect for our environment. Scholars such as Kathryn Yusoff have rightly emphasized that the use of the first-person plural (which we consciously employ in the previous sentence) in these discourses is a knotty issue, as it produces a universalism that erases inequalities and masks differences when it comes to past accountabilities for the environmental crisis and present as well as future obligations for mitigating its catastrophic consequences. In short, climate discourse often relies on binaries instead of emphasizing the potentials of overcoming them (and scholars such as Yusoff are not entirely excluded from this tendency).
Drawing on sources including Rob Nixon’s notion of the “slow violence” caused by anthroturbations and similar environmentally destructive activities, Adeline Johns-Putra’s observation that the discourse of the environmental crisis “is peppered with [...] references to parental obligations to posterity”, and Jonathan Schell’s reflections on cross-generational and cross-species concerns triggered by the heating-up of the Cold War in the early 1980s, this special issue will explore (human and nonhuman) generations in the context of the environmental crisis.
In contemporary discourses, boomers are often considered responsible for the climate emergency, while zoomers and millennials are the (more or less) innocent victims of past mistakes; boomers created a Texas-sized island of floating plastic in the Pacific Ocean; and boomers occupying positions of power stymie millennials’ suggestions for mitigating the effects of environmental destruction, as they do not have to think beyond 2040. Of course, this blame game overgeneralizes and oversimplifies matters. But perhaps most importantly, such binary constructions radicalize discourse and curtail progress by ignoring the potentials of intergenerational cooperation.
Therefore, we would like to call for articles on English or American literature or literatures in English, also in their relationship with cinema and other media, that explore the role of age and generations, and questions of intergenerational solidarity, responsibility, culpability, and cooperation in view of the superhuman scale of geological/deep time that the environmental crisis confronts us with.
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If the English Literature Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board notice (or receive notifications of) mistakes or inaccuracies, conflict of interest or plagiarism in a published article, they will immediately warn the Author and the Publisher and will undertake the necessary actions to resolve the issue. They will do their best to correct the published content whenever they are informed that it contains scientific errors or that the authors have committed unethical or illegal acts in connection with their published work. If necessary, they will withdraw the article or publish a recantation.
All complaints are handled in accordance with the guidelines published by the COPE.
Concerns and complaints must be addressed to the following e-mail ecf_support@unive.it. The letter should contain the following information:
- complainant’s personal information;
- title, author(s), publication date, DOI;
- complaint(s);
- declaration that the complainant has no conflict of interest, or declaration of an actual or potential conflict of interest.
Authors’ responsibilities
Stylesheet
Authors must follow the Guidelines for Authors to be downloaded from the English Literature website.
Authors must explicitly state that their work is original in all its parts and that the submitted paper has not been previously published, nor submitted to other journals, until the entire evaluation process is completed. Since no paper gets published without significant revision, earlier dissemination in conference proceedings or working papers does not preclude consideration for publication, but Authors are expected to fully disclose publication/dissemination of the material in other closely related publications, so that the overlap can be evaluated by the English Literature Editor-in-Chief.
Authorship
Authors are strongly encouraged to use their ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This will ensure the authors’ visibility and correct citation of their work.
Authorship must be correctly attributed; all those who have given a substantial contribution to the design, organisation and accomplishment of the research the article is based on, must be indicated as Co-Authors. Please ensure that: the order of the author names is correct; the names of all authors are present and correctly spelled, and that affiliations are up-to-date.
The respective roles of each co-author should be described in a footnote. The statement that all authors have approved the final version should be included in the disclosure.
Conflicts of interest and financing
Authors, under their own responsibility, must avoid any conflict of interest affecting the results obtained or the interpretations suggested. The English Literature Editor-in-Chief will give serious and careful consideration to suggestions of cases in which, due to possible conflict of interest, an Author’s work should not be reviewed by a specific scholar. Authors should indicate any financing agency or the project the article stems from.
Quotations
Authors must see to it that all works consulted be properly quoted. If works or words of others are used, they have to be properly paraphrased or duly quoted. Quotations between “double quotes” (or «angled quotation marks» if the text is written in a language other than English) must reproduce the exact wording of the source; under their own responsibility, Authors should carefully refrain from disguising a restyling of the source’s wording, as though it was the original formulation.
Any form of excessive, inappropriate or unnecessary self-citation, as well as any other form of citation manipulation, are strongly discouraged.
Ethical Committee
Whenever required, the research protocols must be authorised in advance by the Ethical Committee of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Emendations
When Authors find a mistake or an inaccuracy in their own article, they must immediately warn the English Literature Editor-in-Chief, providing all the information needed to make the due adjustments.
Reviewers’ responsibilities
Goal
By means of the peer-review procedure, reviewers assist the English Literature Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board in taking decisions on the articles submitted. They are expected to offer the Authors suggestions as to possible adjustments aimed at improving their contribution submission.
Timing and conflicts of interest
If a reviewer does not feel up to the task of doing a given review, or if she/he is unable to read the work within the agreed schedule, she/he should notify the English Literature Editor-in-Chief. Reviewers must not accept articles for which there is a conflict of interest due to previous contributions or to a competition with a disclosed author (or with an author they believe to have identified).
Confidentiality
The content of the reviewed work must be considered confidential and must not be used without explicit authorisation by the Author, who is to be contacted via the editor-in-chief. Any confidential information obtained during the peer review process should not be used for other purposes.
Collaborative attitude
Reviewers should see themselves not as adversaries but as advocates for the field. Any comment must be done in a collaborative way and from an objective point of view. Reviewers should clearly motivate their comments and keep in mind the Golden Rule of Reviewing: “Review for others as you would have others review for you”.
Plagiarism
Reviewers should report any similarity or overlapping of the work under analysis with other works known to them.