Death and Decay This call for papers invites submissions on the subject of ‘Death and Decay’ for the third edition of HARTS & Minds, an online postgraduate journal for students of the Humanities and Arts, which is due to be published online in Winter 2013-14. Our first edition and further information can be found at harts-minds.co.uk and you can get updates on our journal at facebook/hartsandminds. Submissions should adhere to the guidelines available on our website. You can either send us an abstract (approximately 300 words in length) and a completed article (no longer than 6000 words) OR you may provide an abstract (300 words) and a synopsis outlining the structure and argument of your intended article (approximately 1500-2000 words). You must use the article template available on our website to format your article. All submissions should be sent with an academic CV to [email protected] by Friday 4th October. Subjects may include but are not limited to the following: - Medical Humanities (e.g. Parasites, disease, autopsy, the cadaver) - Rituals and rites of the dead in various cultures - Burial practices - Death and dying in literatures - Visual Death; in art, photography, illustration, in film and television, on stage - Death personified: the Grim Reaper, Yama & Lord of Naraka, Hel, Hades etc. - The geography of death; real or mythological - Decay if buildings, bodies, nature, morals - The undead, reincarnation, immortality - The death of discourse, language, the author, God - Death as taboo - War and death - The future of death in a posthuman world. - Death of Language - Moral death - Death: presence and absence - Afterlife, textual afterlives. - Hauntings, the undead, vampires, zombies. - Eschatology - The value of Death: what makes a justified or honourable death? - Dirt and debris, Wrecks and ruins, Flotsam and Jetsam - Elegy, Obituary, the Funeral March, Eulogy - Monuments, Memorials and the Archive - Suicide, both literal and metaphorical. Please consider that HARTS & Minds is intended as a truly inter-disciplinary journal and therefore esoteric topics will need to be written with a general academic readership in mind. -- The Editors HARTS & Minds
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:05:35 +0000
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