Daily Archives: 22 February 2017

Ravello Literary Summer School – Call For Applications

Ravello Literary Summer School
Pastoral Visions: Exploring the Idea of Retreat in Literature, Art and Film
17–21 July, 2017

You’re invited to join us for a unique literary summer school experience in Ravello, Italy, to explore the pastoral and ideas of retreat in literature, art and film. Situated about 5 km from Amalfi, overlooking the coast, Ravello has inspired many writers, artists and musicians throughout history. There will be lectures from an international group of scholars, playreadings from Shakespeare, other readings from a range of texts from the classical to the contemporary, a poetry writing workshop for those interested in creative writing, excursions to the gardens of Villa Cimbrone and Villa Rufolo (with the opportunity for sketching), and a walk in the footsteps of E.M. Forster. Topics of sessions will include classical pastoral, exploring the work of Theocritus and Virgil, early modern and Shakespearean pastoral, the myth of the Mediterranean, the pastoral in modernism, and the pastoral in film. A detailed programme will be provided closer to the time.

No prior experience is necessary; students, general readers, scholars all welcome!

Convenors:

  • Dr Victoria Bladen (The University of Queensland, Australia)
  • Assoc Prof Maddalena Pennacchia (Roma Tre University, Italy)

More information about the Convenors: http://victoriabladen.wixsite.com/shakespeareforall/about-the-convenors

Enquiries: victoria.bladen@uqconnect.edu.au or maddalena.pennacchia@uniroma3.it

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Reading the Road in Shakespeare’s Britain – Call For Papers

Call for book chapters: Reading the Road in Shakespeare’s Britain

Edited collection, publisher TBC. Editors: Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus

‘Go hie thee presently, post to the road’ (CE 3.2.906)

The editors invite 400-word abstracts for a collection examining perceptions of ‘the road’ in early modern Britain.

It may be considered that the USA has its own road tradition, taking in the idea of the great western journey on the one hand, and the exodus from slavery towards the promised land of civil rights on the other, both configured biblically though essentially opposed. Out of these perhaps come the preponderance of American road movies and songs, and the idea of America itself configured as movement / a movement.

This edited collection aims to pull together new research on early modern British/European literary or historical perceptions of ‘the road’ and its cognates. Such research might ask questions of how the road contributes to British identity, and/or might include any or none of the following: post-Reformation views of pilgrimage or the sense of Christian journeying in texts such as Pilgrim’s Progress, perceptions of Roman or pre-Roman road heritage, of the winding nature of England’s ‘rolling roads’, of the mail and post-horse network, the idea of speed in ‘post-haste’ or of news travelling the highroads via itinerant merchant-newstellers or informers. It might consider the traditions of ancient church-way paths, cursuses, crossroads both physical and metaphorical, the roadside gallows or the place of the inn. It might reflect on the nature of travelling communities or the relation of characters like Autolycus, Ariel, or Puck to masterless wanderers and devils. It could include accounts of perceptions of mobility, both literal and figurative. It might also consider the representation of roads on maps and early modern surveying and mapping practices. These suggestions are indicative rather than prescriptive.

Please send proposals of 400 words and a brief biographical statement to Lisa Hopkins (L.M.Hopkins@shu.ac.uk) and Bill Angus (w.j.angus@massey.ac.nz) by April 28, 2017.

Deadline for submissions:

  • Deadline for submitting chapter proposals (400 words): April 28, 2017.
  • Notification of acceptance: 19 May 2017
  • Deadline for final submissions (6000-8000 words): 29 September 2017