New Page Added

I’ve added the page “Sample Abstract” (see above) to provide an example of the type of work that we’re seeking for this volume. All contributions to this volume should be about 6,000 words in length (including notes and bibliography) and perform four tasks:

1. Summarize the central ideas of its major figure.
2. Locate this figure within any two of the following contexts: intellectual history, political history, cultural milieu, social history, and/or personal history. We expect the typical submission to combine an intellectual history with at least one of the others.
3. Explain the importance of its major figure to the practice of textual interpretation or to the rise of literary theory.
4. Argue a thesis about the ways in which the author’s work dialectically engages his/her historical context.

We are initially marketing this volume as a companion volume for literary theory courses, so we also request that contributors write in a manner that is as clear and accessible for upper division undergraduate and graduate students as possible.

Thank you,

Jim

Latest Dissemination of the CFP

The following email:

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Dear Colleagues:

The editors of Interpretation: Theory: History continue to welcome abstracts and CVs well into January of 2012.  For this volume, are seeking 6000 word essays focused upon figures important to the rise and development of literary theory and to the history of textual interpretation that present each figure within his or her social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts. The full CFP is available here:

http://interpretationtheoryhistory.wordpress.com/about/

And a list of figures for whom we have already received abstracts is available here:

http://interpretationtheoryhistory.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/current-status-of-interpretation-theory-history/

Further information is available on the blog.

This volume is focused on figures from Marx and Freud to the present, but we are also interested in major figures from Plato to the nineteenth century. Feel free to email any questions or comments directly to jamesrovira@gmail.com.

Jim

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was circulated yesterday to the following listservs:

18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion (C18-L@lists.psu.edu)

Christianity and Literature Discussion (christlit@lists.bethel.edu)

Discussion of Frankfurt School Critical Theory (theory-frankfurt-school@srcf.ucam.org)

John Milton Discussion List (milton-l@lists.richmond.edu)

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR-L@listserv.wvu.edu)

If you’re a member of any literature, theory, social science, human science, or cultural studies listserve and wish to support this project, please copy and paste the email above to an email to your list if such posts are allowed.

Many thanks again to those who have helped us recruit contributors and who are working with us on this volume.

Jim