Calls for papers
The Midwest Modern Language Association
Annual Conference, Chicago
November 14-17, 2019
Call for Papers 2019
The Henry James Society seeks proposals on the conference theme of “Duality, Doubles and Doppelgänger”as it relates to the life and/or works of Henry James.
Topics could include, but are by no means limited to:
Annual Conference, Chicago
November 14-17, 2019
Call for Papers 2019
The Henry James Society seeks proposals on the conference theme of “Duality, Doubles and Doppelgänger”as it relates to the life and/or works of Henry James.
Topics could include, but are by no means limited to:
- Doubles, doppelgängers, brothers, twins, mirror images, hauntings
- Identity, transcultural identity, psychology studies, cultural studies, literary criticism, gender studies
- Film and operatic adaptations of James’s fictions
- Duality in pedagogy, doubles in the classroom (the professor’s persona, teaching Gothic and other generic doubles and duplicities, the student-teacher relationship/dichotomy, teaching with various methods, digital teaching, hybrid and on-line teaching vs face-to-face; the use of avatars)
- Double-meanings (linguistics, semantics, multiple interpretations)
- Duality of texts and parataxis
- Double entendre: humor, jokes, dark humor, all aspects of laughter (laughter as a social construct, laughter as a cultural construct)
- Translations and translators (translating double meaning, cross-cultural interpretation, choosing the right word, translating the word vs translating the idea)
- Reproductions, mass productions, copies, reproducing the written word (printing press, typewriter, consumerism, capitalism)