Call for Articles: Forum for Modern Language Studies - Representations of Age in European Literatures

[Elena Ostrovskaya]

Юрочка, привет
Пересылаю, как всегда, на всякий случай:) У тебя там возраст от
маскулинности не отпочковывается?
Целую,
Л.


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Claire Whitehead <cew12 at st-andrews.ac.uk>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I would like to draw your attention to the Call for Articles below for a
> Special Issue of the journal Forum for Modern Language Studies dedicated to
> 'Representations of Age in European Literatures'.
>
> Abstracts should be sent to my colleague Joy Charnley at:
> j.charnley at phonecoop.coop
>
>
> Forum for Modern Language Studies
>
> Special Issue: Representations of Age in European Literatures
>
> Call for articles
>
> In her 1970 work about perceptions and representations of age in different
> cultures and literatures, La Vieillesse, Simone de Beauvoir remarked that
> ‘le vieillard n’est pas un bon héros de roman; il est achevé, figé, sans
> attente, sans espoir; pour lui les jeux sont faits’. Thinking more
> specifically about old women and the ways in which aging is different for
> them, Anne-Marie Houdebine-Gravaud has said that ‘le mot “vieillard” existe
> mais non le terme “vieillarde” [...] C’est qu’une femme ne devrait jamais
> vieillir’ (1999). Many writers have however quite deliberately placed older
> characters at the centre of their work and in 2006 two such novels in
> French
> met with commercial success (Benoite Groult, La Touche étoile, Héléna
> Marienské, Rhésus). In this context, this Special Issue seeks to look at
> the
> ways in which age has been perceived and represented, both negatively and
> positively in European Literatures. Was Beauvoir right? What stereotypes
> about older people have been attacked or reinforced in literature? Have
> writers often seen age as a barrier between generations and how has the
> ‘generation gap’ been represented? What place is there/has there
> traditionally been in European literatures for older people? How is old age
> different/perceived as different for women? Have different cultures
> approached it in noticeably diverse ways?
>
> Proposals for articles in English (300 words) should be sent as soon as
> possible to the guest editor Joy Charnley (j.charnley at phonecoop.coop) who
> will be happy to respond to any queries. Completed articles will need to be
> submitted by September 2010 and publication is planned for April 2011.
> Articles should be up to 5,000 words, including endnotes, and must conform
> to the FMLS stylesheet (see the FMLS website).
>
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