Revised CFP: Edited anthology, Interpretation: Theory: History

We are seeking essays about major figures important to the history of textual interpretation and the rise of theory for the edited anthology Interpretation: Theory: History. Extending the work of Peter C. Herman’s Historicizing Theory (SUNY Press, 2004), this volume seeks to contextualize the works of prominent philosophers, psychologists, social scientists, and theorists who have made significant contributions to the rise and development of textual interpretation and of theory within these authors’ biographical, cultural, intellectual, and/or socio-political history. Each contribution should include a brief overview of the major works and ideas of each author, how those ideas developed over time and have either influenced the history of textual interpretation or have been employed by theory, an overview of the author’s biographical, cultural, intellectual, and socio-political history, and then a reading of the author’s ideas as a response to this history. We do not seek essays that either ignore history or reduce an author’s work to its historical context: we seek essays that approach an author’s work as an engagement with and response to that history. We are primarily focused on figures from Marx and Freud to the present but are open to proposals on Plato through the nineteenth century.

Brief CVs and 500 word abstracts should be emailed in Word or .rtf format to jamesrovira@gmail.com. Abstracts will be accepted until notice is posted on this website that we can accept no further abstracts for consideration. We plan to welcome abstracts and submissions submitted until the point where further entries would delay the publication process or would not be considered by the publisher.

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Editors:
James Rovira, Tiffin University: James Rovira is Associate Professor of English at Tiffin University and author of Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety.

Sherry Truffin, Campbell University: Sherry Truffin is Associate Professor of English at Campbell University and author of Schoolhouse Gothic: Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship.