call for papers/narratology

[Dennis Eoffe]

Dear all,

On behalf of the newly organized electronic journal project
"Amsterdam International Journal for Cultural Narratology" (AJCN)
(University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis)
I would like to announce the formal "call for papers" to its first issue,
proposed to be launched online by the beginning o year 2005.
The details of the project are as follow:

Editors-in-Chief :  Professors Wolf Schmid & Willem G. Weststeijn
(University of Hamburg, University of Amsterdam, (ASCA) The Amsterdam
School for Cultural Analysis)
The entire project will be proposedly hosted within the ASCA
main-University site: http://www.fgw.uva.nl/asca/

Executive/managing editor Dennis Eoffe. (University of Amsterdam).

Referees/Editorial Board is consistent of:

Mikhail Iampolsky of New York University
Andrey Astvatsaturov of Sankt Petersburg State University
Wolf Schmid of University of Hamburg
Mikhail Epstein of Emory University
Elena Grigorijeva of Tartu University
Natascha Drubek-Meyer of München University
Elena Trofimova of Moscow State University
Daniel Rancour-Laferriere of University of California, Davis
Elena Kosilova of Moscow State University
Vladimir Paperny of Haifa University
Evgeny Dobrenko of University of Nottingham
Vladimir Khazan of Jerusalem University
V.M. Lourie (Hieromonk Gregory)  «Xristianskij Vostok» (Christian
Orient) periodical of the Russian Academy of Sciences and State
Hermitage Museum, Editorial Board.
Leonid Heller of University of Lausanne.
Lena Szilard of Sassari University
Valery Merlin of Yad Va Shem Archival Institute of Jerusalem
Arkadii T. Dragomoschenko of Sankt Petersburg Humanitarian Academy
Igor Pilshchikov of Moscow State University's Institute of World
Culture and Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Linguistics
Nikolay E. Koposov, Dean of the SpB Branch of New York Bard College of
Arts and Letters, and Sankt Petersburg State University.
Brian Horowitz of Tulane University.

AJCN intends to publish any methodologically adequate scholarly essay,
with no restrictions of space/visual/graphics, dealing with the broad
issue of cultural narratology, in English, Russian, Dutch, German or
French.

Narratology of Culture is perceived here in the "conventional",
internationally approved, mildly balanced scholarly modus operandi. It
is seen as an artificial stature of "universal humanitarian science",
absorbing the semiological bias of "sign-cognition issues", genuinely
becoming the General Theory of Textual Analysis. According to the
basic conceptual standpoints the narratology of culture is locating
itself within an intermediate position in between the structuralist
semiotics from one side and the "critique" of "reader's" reaction i.e.
the receptionist aesthetics from another. The substantial concerns and
contentions of AJCN are as following:
a)      the "communicative" perception of literariness
b)      the artistic act of communication is cognized in terms of a
polytonal, and at times reciprocal process, occurring simultaneously
within the several dissimilar "descriptive levels of recital"
c)      overall preoccupation with the issue of "the discourse"
d)      theoretical meditation over the different "poles" of
narrative-institutions, which maintain the very chain of transmitting
the artistic information from what is called "author" to what is
labeled as a "reader.
e)      the potential aim is to display the inner scheme of mechanical
hierarchy, prevailing behind the complex relationship betwixt the
entities of "storytelling", "recital", "history", as uniting under the
contextual "roof" of the narrative.
All the magnitude of modern thinkers, whose oeuvre deals with the
"discursive analysis" dispose, naturally the dormant interest for our
quiescent publications. The special desired accent, however, should be
put on the scientific heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin, namely his ideas on
the conflicting interrelation between the types of "the words" (i.e.
"the discourses"), impersonated "voices" within the artistic text.
("Svoie slovo" vs "chuzhoie slovo").

We will be welcoming nearly every scholarly article, devoted to a
certain topic, within any field of humanities, which takes into
consideration (to some extent) the theoretical standpoints as
described above.

All the proposed scholarly texts should be forwarded to the managing
editor - Dennis Eoffe via sinkell at gmail.com
with the subject notification "proposed article for AJCN first issue".
The deadline for all the potential submissions is December 2004.

Yours, cordially,
--
Dennis Eoffe http://www.litera.ru/slova/ioffe/
PhD Associate
University of Amsterdam
Slavic Seminaruim
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)