Edited Volumes by Vladimir Brljak
New York: Routledge, 2022
Collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team o... more Collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of researchers in a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences. The volume tracks the subject across disciplinary, cultural, and period-based divides, from its shadowy origins to its uncertain future, and from the rich variety of its cultural and artistic manifestations to its deep cognitive roots. Allegory is everything we already know it to be: a mode of literary and artistic composition, and a religious as well as secular interpretive practice. As this volume attests, however, it is much more than that - much more than a sum of its parts. Collectively, the phenomena we now subsume under this term comprise a dynamic cultural force which has left a deep imprint on our history, whose full impact we are only beginning to comprehend, and which therefore demands precisely such dedicated cross-disciplinary examination as this book seeks to provide.
special issue of Classical Receptions Journal, 2021
Gathers ambitious new work on the poetics and literary criticism of sixteenth- and early seventee... more Gathers ambitious new work on the poetics and literary criticism of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, France, Italy, and Latin America, a domain of literary and intellectual history which represents one of the richest and most persistent strains of the classical heritage in this period. Featuring articles by Bryan Brazeau, Maya Feile Tomes , James Hall, Michael Hetherington, Aaron Kachuck, Lucy Rayfield, and Ted Tregear, with an afterword by Chris Stamatakis. More info at www.poeticsbeforemodernity.net.
Articles and Chapters by Vladimir Brljak
Old English Newsletter 47.1 (2021), 2021
Most of the work on Borges’s engagement with Old Germanic tradition has been devoted to the perio... more Most of the work on Borges’s engagement with Old Germanic tradition has been devoted to the period inaugurated by the 1951 monograph _Antiguas literaturas germánicas_, in which the subject assumes a prominent place in his work, inspiring, wholly or partly, a corpus of well over a hundred items, encompassing a wide range of genres and formats. The preceding decades, however, remain relatively unexplored, and this article seeks to shed some light on the unresolved questions they raise. Specifically, it argues that Borges is very likely to have developed this interest through the influence of fellow author Norah Lange; it elucidates the topical subtext of his first non-fictional piece on an Old Germanic motif, the 1932/33 essay 'Noticia de los Kenningar'/_Las Kenningar_; and it offers a close reading of what seem to be his earliest literary works on such motifs - two miniatures published in 1946 as part of a project titled _Museo_, one of his several collaborations with Adolfo Bioy Casares.
Artes poeticae: Formations and Transformations, 1500-1650, ed. Vladimir Brljak and Micha Lazarus, special issue of Classical Receptions Journal, 2021
Gathers path-breaking new work on the literary criticism of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-cent... more Gathers path-breaking new work on the literary criticism of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe and Latin America, a domain of literary and intellectual history which represents one of the richest and most enduring strains of the classical heritage in this period.
In _The Reception of Aristotle's 'Poetics' in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond: New Directions in Criticism_, ed. Bryan Brazeau, Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), 60-93
Reformation and Renaissance Review 20 (2018): 187-208
The article argues that the soliloquy, ‘To be, or not to be,’ in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is informed... more The article argues that the soliloquy, ‘To be, or not to be,’ in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is informed by soul-sleeping: the belief that on its separation from the body at death, the soul enters an unconscious state typically described as sleep or a sleep-like stupor, in which it remains until wakened and joined with the resurrected body, and then assessed at the last judgment. The doctrine was advocated in some of Luther’s works of the 1520s and 1530s and found acceptance among some early English Protestants, but was destined to be repudiated by later Protestant orthodoxy, and was universally condemned by mainstream Protestant thinking of Shakespeare’s day. The article surveys the history of this heterodoxy in England, demonstrates its continuing significance in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, elucidates the references to the doctrine in Hamlet’s soliloquy, and discusses their relevance to the broader understanding of the religious subtext of the play.
Studies in Philology 114 (2017): 697-719
The article traces the emergence of the myth of the Middle Ages as the 'age of allegory' - from t... more The article traces the emergence of the myth of the Middle Ages as the 'age of allegory' - from the formative developments of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through its classic statement in the work of Jacob Burckhardt, to its consolidation at the hands of John Addington Symonds and other British and American authors - and discusses its continuing influence on English literary historiography.
Notes and Queries 64 (2017): 274-78
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Notes a... more This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Notes and Queries following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version-'Notes on the Religious Element in Hamlet', Notes and Queries 64.2 (2017): 274-8,
The Review of English Studies 66 (2015): 403-22
In an often quoted but imperfectly understood passage in John Milton’s Paradise Regain’d, Satan p... more In an often quoted but imperfectly understood passage in John Milton’s Paradise Regain’d, Satan professes to doubt whether the kingdom portended for Christ is ‘Real or Allegoric’. This article takes this passage, the only instance of the term allegory in the whole of Milton’s poetry, as a starting point for a reconsideration of Milton’s attitude towards the complex and controversial theological, political, and aesthetic issues raised by this term in early modern Protestant culture. Specifically, the article examines the usage of the term in Milton’s early prose writings and its abandonment from 1645 onwards; Milton’s familiarity with the disputes surrounding Galatians 4:24, a biblical verse of central importance in early modern treatments of the subject; and an overlooked tradition in Protestant commentary according to which allegorical reading was introduced into Christianity by Satan, in order to obscure the true meaning of scripture. Having firmly aligned Milton with the anti-allegorical tendency in Protestant thought, the discussion returns to Paradise Regain’d to demonstrate how this anti-allegorism informs a number of key passages in the poem, and briefly discusses its broader implications for the ongoing debates about the representational mode of Milton’s biblical epics.
--- This article was awarded the Review of English Studies Essay Prize for 2014, and is freely accessible at the following link: http://res.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/275/403.full.pdf+html
Milton Quarterly 49 (2015): 44-50
in Milton through the Centuries, ed. Gábor Ittzés and Miklós Péti (Budapest: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, 2012), 102-12
Notes and Queries 59 (2011): 247-54
The article identifies and examines a series of parallels between Shakespeare's Hamlet and the tr... more The article identifies and examines a series of parallels between Shakespeare's Hamlet and the traditional accounts of the biblical patriarch Lamech. It is argued that these parallels – including a hitherto unacknowledged anagrammatic link between the names "Hamlet" and "Lameth", an alternative form of Lamech's name employed in various medieval and post-medieval English works – are more numerous and specific than has been previously acknowledged, with important implications for our understanding of the play.
abbreviated version published in Studies in Medievalism 20 (2011): 99-128
The article gives an overview of Jorge Luis Borges’s involvement with the literatures and culture... more The article gives an overview of Jorge Luis Borges’s involvement with the literatures and cultures of the early medieval north. It traces the development of Borges’s northernism and shows his northernist-inspired opus to be not only much more extensive – over one hundred items are listed which are either partly, and a good number of them wholly, northernist in inspiration – but also more varied, complex and important than previous studies have indicated. Among other topics, the paper examines and explicates northernist references and echoes found in Borges’s literary work, discusses his scholarly efforts in the field, and reflects on his increasingly personal involvement with the north in the final decades of his life.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 112 (2011): 297-321
The article reviews editorial and critical work on the Old English poem Deor. Starting from the l... more The article reviews editorial and critical work on the Old English poem Deor. Starting from the long-standing cruces of the poem’s third section and moving on to broad interpretive issues, it argues that Deor is an original vernacular take on the de casibus theme, employing a series of interconnected native exempla from the so-called Theodoric cycle as illustrations of stock medieval themes of the fickleness of fortune and the transience of mortal existence.
Notes and Queries 57 (2010): 379-80
The note identifies a previously unrecognized allusion to Purgatory in Shakespeare's Hamlet and b... more The note identifies a previously unrecognized allusion to Purgatory in Shakespeare's Hamlet and briefly discusses its context and relevance.
Calls for Papers by Vladimir Brljak
The Warburg Institute, 12-13 October 2023
_Space in Time_ is a forum for the long and global cultural history of the space beyond Earth, fr... more _Space in Time_ is a forum for the long and global cultural history of the space beyond Earth, from the ancient heavens to modern outer space. Papers are invited from fields including, but not limited to, the histories of art, astronomy, cosmology, geography, literature, philosophy, religion, science and technology, and intellectual and cultural history at large. Contributions challenging traditional approaches to outer space are particularly welcome, as well as those working across one or more established domains of inquiry, and/or across the premodern/modern divide. The event is open to researchers of any disciplinary background and career stage, working in any cultural tradition, from the ancient world to the present day.
| brill.com/sep Sources in Early Poetics publishes primary sources in literary criticism from Gre... more | brill.com/sep Sources in Early Poetics publishes primary sources in literary criticism from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Enlightenment. Cutting across established period and disciplinary divides, the series emphasizes both the essential continuity and the inventive range of over two millennia of criticism in the West and its neighbouring traditions. From the Levant to the Americas, from Greek and Latin to Arabic, Hebrew, and the rising vernaculars, Sources in Early Poetics provides a forum for new materials and perspectives in the long, cosmopolitan history of literary thought.
Events by Vladimir Brljak
The Warburg Institute, 30 October 2015
RETHINKING ALLEGORY
The Warburg Institute
30 October 2015
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloq... more RETHINKING ALLEGORY
The Warburg Institute
30 October 2015
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2015-16/rethinking-allegory
Over the past several decades allegory has emerged as a prominent subject across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Allegory is all that traditional scholarship has said it is: a rhetorical figure, a mode of literary and artistic representation, a religious as well as secular hermeneutic practice. It is, however, much more than that: a protean cultural force which has left a deep imprint on the Western tradition, and whose full impact is only beginning to come to light. Hosted by the Warburg Institute, one of the key sites for the study of the allegorical tradition, this colloquium aims to showcase some of the most exciting research in contemporary allegory studies and further the vibrant current debate on the subject.
Keynote: Brenda Machosky (University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu). Speakers: Andreas Beyer (University of Basel), Matthias Bruhn (Humboldt University, Berlin), Jason Crawford (Union University), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary, University of London), Kristen Poole (University of Delaware), Michael Silk (King's College London).
Organisers: Karen Lang and Peter Mack (University of Warwick), and Vladimir Brljak (University of Cambridge).
University of Warwick, 7 November 2013
International conference exploring and promoting the notion of allegory studies as an emergent ne... more International conference exploring and promoting the notion of allegory studies as an emergent nexus of interdisciplinary scholarship, held at the University of Warwick on 7 November 2013, with delegates from a number of universities in the UK, as well as Israel, Switzerland, the US. Further information at the conference website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/emforum/events/allegory.
Poetics before Modernity by Vladimir Brljak
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Join us for the launch of _Sources in Early Poetics_, a new series with Brill, with addresses fro... more Join us for the launch of _Sources in Early Poetics_, a new series with Brill, with addresses from the editors and a roundtable discussion featuring Prof. Gavin Alexander (Cambridge), Prof. Rita Copeland (Penn), Dr Lara Harb (Princeton), Dr Aglae Pizzone (Southern Denmark), and Prof. Filippomaria Pontani (Venice)!
Free registration via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sources-in-early-poetics-launch-and-roundtable-tickets-247177995037
'Sources in Early Poetics' publishes primary sources in literary criticism from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Enlightenment. Cutting across established period and disciplinary divides, the series emphasizes both the essential continuity and the inventive range of over two millennia of criticism in the West and its neighbouring traditions. From the Levant to the Americas, from Greek and Latin to Arabic, Hebrew, and the rising vernaculars, Sources in Early Poetics provides a forum for new materials and perspectives in the long, cosmopolitan history of literary thought.
The series publishes editions of single works as well as collections of shorter texts by one or more authors, with facing-page English translations provided for all non-English texts. We also publish English translations of works available in adequate editions elsewhere, but unavailable in authoritative and accessible English renderings. Special attention is given to unpublished, unedited, and untranslated sources, especially those remaining in manuscript.
The series has its origin in Poetics before Modernity, an international project founded by the General Editors in 2016. In addition to sponsoring _Sources in Early Poetics_ and other publications, the project also organizes events and collaborates with affiliated institutions, and is backed by an extensive Advisory Board, featuring some of the most distinguished scholars in the field.
General Editors
Vladimir Brljak (Durham) and Micha Lazarus (Warburg)
Editorial Board
Baukje van den Berg (CEU), Elsa Bouchard, (Montreal), Bryan Brazeau (Warwick), and Andrew Kraebel (Trinity)
Advisory Board
Gavin Alexander (Cambridge), Jan Bloemendal (Huygens), Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania), Anders Cullhed (Stockholm), Pierre Destrée (U catholique de Louvain), Kathy Eden (Columbia), Roland Greene (Stanford), Beatrice Gründler (Freie U Berlin), Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews), Lara Harb (Princeton), Philip Hardie (Cambridge), Bernhard Huss (Freie U Berlin), Ian Johnson (St Andrews), Casper de Jonge (Leiden), Pauline LeVen (Yale), Martin McLaughlin (Oxford), Alastair Minnis (Yale), Glenn W. Most (Chicago/MPWG Berlin), Stratis Papaioannou (Crete), Aglae Pizzone (Southern Denmark), Filippomaria Pontani (Venice), James Porter (UC Berkeley), Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard), Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL), Peter T. Struck (Pennsylvania), María José Vega (U Autònoma de Barcelona), Zhang Longxi (City U of Hong Kong), and Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard)
Please direct all queries to poeticsbeforemodernity@gmail.com.
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Calls for Papers by Vladimir Brljak
Events by Vladimir Brljak
The Warburg Institute
30 October 2015
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2015-16/rethinking-allegory
Over the past several decades allegory has emerged as a prominent subject across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Allegory is all that traditional scholarship has said it is: a rhetorical figure, a mode of literary and artistic representation, a religious as well as secular hermeneutic practice. It is, however, much more than that: a protean cultural force which has left a deep imprint on the Western tradition, and whose full impact is only beginning to come to light. Hosted by the Warburg Institute, one of the key sites for the study of the allegorical tradition, this colloquium aims to showcase some of the most exciting research in contemporary allegory studies and further the vibrant current debate on the subject.
Keynote: Brenda Machosky (University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu). Speakers: Andreas Beyer (University of Basel), Matthias Bruhn (Humboldt University, Berlin), Jason Crawford (Union University), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary, University of London), Kristen Poole (University of Delaware), Michael Silk (King's College London).
Organisers: Karen Lang and Peter Mack (University of Warwick), and Vladimir Brljak (University of Cambridge).
Poetics before Modernity by Vladimir Brljak
Free registration via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sources-in-early-poetics-launch-and-roundtable-tickets-247177995037
'Sources in Early Poetics' publishes primary sources in literary criticism from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Enlightenment. Cutting across established period and disciplinary divides, the series emphasizes both the essential continuity and the inventive range of over two millennia of criticism in the West and its neighbouring traditions. From the Levant to the Americas, from Greek and Latin to Arabic, Hebrew, and the rising vernaculars, Sources in Early Poetics provides a forum for new materials and perspectives in the long, cosmopolitan history of literary thought.
The series publishes editions of single works as well as collections of shorter texts by one or more authors, with facing-page English translations provided for all non-English texts. We also publish English translations of works available in adequate editions elsewhere, but unavailable in authoritative and accessible English renderings. Special attention is given to unpublished, unedited, and untranslated sources, especially those remaining in manuscript.
The series has its origin in Poetics before Modernity, an international project founded by the General Editors in 2016. In addition to sponsoring _Sources in Early Poetics_ and other publications, the project also organizes events and collaborates with affiliated institutions, and is backed by an extensive Advisory Board, featuring some of the most distinguished scholars in the field.
General Editors
Vladimir Brljak (Durham) and Micha Lazarus (Warburg)
Editorial Board
Baukje van den Berg (CEU), Elsa Bouchard, (Montreal), Bryan Brazeau (Warwick), and Andrew Kraebel (Trinity)
Advisory Board
Gavin Alexander (Cambridge), Jan Bloemendal (Huygens), Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania), Anders Cullhed (Stockholm), Pierre Destrée (U catholique de Louvain), Kathy Eden (Columbia), Roland Greene (Stanford), Beatrice Gründler (Freie U Berlin), Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews), Lara Harb (Princeton), Philip Hardie (Cambridge), Bernhard Huss (Freie U Berlin), Ian Johnson (St Andrews), Casper de Jonge (Leiden), Pauline LeVen (Yale), Martin McLaughlin (Oxford), Alastair Minnis (Yale), Glenn W. Most (Chicago/MPWG Berlin), Stratis Papaioannou (Crete), Aglae Pizzone (Southern Denmark), Filippomaria Pontani (Venice), James Porter (UC Berkeley), Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard), Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL), Peter T. Struck (Pennsylvania), María José Vega (U Autònoma de Barcelona), Zhang Longxi (City U of Hong Kong), and Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard)
Please direct all queries to poeticsbeforemodernity@gmail.com.
--- This article was awarded the Review of English Studies Essay Prize for 2014, and is freely accessible at the following link: http://res.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/275/403.full.pdf+html
The Warburg Institute
30 October 2015
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2015-16/rethinking-allegory
Over the past several decades allegory has emerged as a prominent subject across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Allegory is all that traditional scholarship has said it is: a rhetorical figure, a mode of literary and artistic representation, a religious as well as secular hermeneutic practice. It is, however, much more than that: a protean cultural force which has left a deep imprint on the Western tradition, and whose full impact is only beginning to come to light. Hosted by the Warburg Institute, one of the key sites for the study of the allegorical tradition, this colloquium aims to showcase some of the most exciting research in contemporary allegory studies and further the vibrant current debate on the subject.
Keynote: Brenda Machosky (University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu). Speakers: Andreas Beyer (University of Basel), Matthias Bruhn (Humboldt University, Berlin), Jason Crawford (Union University), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary, University of London), Kristen Poole (University of Delaware), Michael Silk (King's College London).
Organisers: Karen Lang and Peter Mack (University of Warwick), and Vladimir Brljak (University of Cambridge).
Free registration via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sources-in-early-poetics-launch-and-roundtable-tickets-247177995037
'Sources in Early Poetics' publishes primary sources in literary criticism from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Enlightenment. Cutting across established period and disciplinary divides, the series emphasizes both the essential continuity and the inventive range of over two millennia of criticism in the West and its neighbouring traditions. From the Levant to the Americas, from Greek and Latin to Arabic, Hebrew, and the rising vernaculars, Sources in Early Poetics provides a forum for new materials and perspectives in the long, cosmopolitan history of literary thought.
The series publishes editions of single works as well as collections of shorter texts by one or more authors, with facing-page English translations provided for all non-English texts. We also publish English translations of works available in adequate editions elsewhere, but unavailable in authoritative and accessible English renderings. Special attention is given to unpublished, unedited, and untranslated sources, especially those remaining in manuscript.
The series has its origin in Poetics before Modernity, an international project founded by the General Editors in 2016. In addition to sponsoring _Sources in Early Poetics_ and other publications, the project also organizes events and collaborates with affiliated institutions, and is backed by an extensive Advisory Board, featuring some of the most distinguished scholars in the field.
General Editors
Vladimir Brljak (Durham) and Micha Lazarus (Warburg)
Editorial Board
Baukje van den Berg (CEU), Elsa Bouchard, (Montreal), Bryan Brazeau (Warwick), and Andrew Kraebel (Trinity)
Advisory Board
Gavin Alexander (Cambridge), Jan Bloemendal (Huygens), Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania), Anders Cullhed (Stockholm), Pierre Destrée (U catholique de Louvain), Kathy Eden (Columbia), Roland Greene (Stanford), Beatrice Gründler (Freie U Berlin), Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews), Lara Harb (Princeton), Philip Hardie (Cambridge), Bernhard Huss (Freie U Berlin), Ian Johnson (St Andrews), Casper de Jonge (Leiden), Pauline LeVen (Yale), Martin McLaughlin (Oxford), Alastair Minnis (Yale), Glenn W. Most (Chicago/MPWG Berlin), Stratis Papaioannou (Crete), Aglae Pizzone (Southern Denmark), Filippomaria Pontani (Venice), James Porter (UC Berkeley), Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard), Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL), Peter T. Struck (Pennsylvania), María José Vega (U Autònoma de Barcelona), Zhang Longxi (City U of Hong Kong), and Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard)
Please direct all queries to poeticsbeforemodernity@gmail.com.
The series publishes editions of single works as well as collections of shorter texts by one or more authors, with facing-page English translations provided for all non-English texts. We also publish English translations of works available in adequate editions elsewhere, but unavailable in authoritative and accessible English renderings. Special attention is given to unpublished, unedited, and untranslated sources, especially those remaining in manuscript.
The series has its origin in Poetics before Modernity, an international project founded by the General Editors in 2016. In addition to sponsoring Sources in Early Poetics and other publications, the project also organizes events and collaborates with affiliated institutions, and is backed by an extensive Advisory Board, featuring some of the most distinguished scholars in the field.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the General Editors, Dr Vladimir Brljak and Dr Micha Lazarus, or the Publisher at Brill, Dr Kate Hammond. For further details, please refer to the Guidelines for Contributors and the Proposal Form.
ISSN: 2772-9079
General Editors
Vladimir Brljak, Durham University
Micha Lazarus, Warburg Institute
Editorial Board
Baukje van den Berg, Central European University
Elsa Bouchard, University of Montreal
Bryan Brazeau, University of Warwick
Andrew Kraebel, Trinity University
Advisory Board
Gavin Alexander, University of Cambridge
Jan Bloemendal, Huygens Institute
Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
Anders Cullhed, Stockholm University
Pierre Destrée, Université catholique de Louvain
Kathy Eden, Columbia University
Roland Greene, Stanford University
Beatrice Gründler, Freie Universität Berlin
Stephen Halliwell, University of St Andrews
Lara Harb, Princeton University
Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge
Bernhard Huss, Freie Universität Berlin
Ian Johnson, University of St Andrews
Casper de Jonge, Universiteit Leiden
Pauline LeVen, Yale University
Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford
Alastair Minnis, Yale University
Glenn W. Most, University of Chicago / Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Stratis Papaioannou, University of Crete
Aglae Pizzone, University of Southern Denmark
Filippomaria Pontani, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
James Porter, University of California, Berkeley
Panagiotis Roilos, Harvard University
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, King’s College London
Peter T. Struck, University of Pennsylvania
María José Vega, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Zhang Longxi, City University of Hong Kong
Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University
invites papers on
POETICS AMONG THE DISCIPLINES
to be proposed for
SCIENTIAE, AMSTERDAM 3-6 JUNE 2020
Gathering scholars working on all aspects of c.1400–1700 intellectual history, the Scientiae conference is the ideal venue for a conversation about where knowledge about imaginative literature fits into the period’s disciplinary map, and how the key developments in the sphere of poetics and literary criticism in this period relate to those in other fields and disciplines—alchemy, astrology, epistemology, magic, medicine, natural history and philosophy, the subjects of the trivium and the quadrivium, theology and biblical exegesis, and the visual, plastic, and performative arts, among others. We invite papers which shed new light on any aspect of this relationship, including, but not limited to:
- the influence of other fields and disciplines on c.1400–1700 poetic theory, and vice versa
- the changing place of poetry and poetics in the disciplinary map
- authors who produced important work in poetics and literary criticism as well as other fields—e.g., Scaliger, Melanchthon, Vettori, Camerarius, Patrizi, Tasso, Bacon, Galileo, Marinella, Vossius, Hobbes, Digby, Cavendish—and the connections between these aspects of their work
- the perceived place of poetic knowledge within the Aristotelian system
- the impact of poetic theory on the development of the non-literary—visual, plastic, performative, musical—arts, and vice versa
- the relationship between poetics and the Reformation/Counter-Reformation
- theories of mimesis within poetics and without
- theories of allegory within poetics and without
- poetics and translation theory
- practical criticism as a form of knowledge
Please send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers, accompanied by a 100-word biographical note, to poeticsbeforemodernity@gmail.com by 7 January 2020. A selection of abstracts will be arranged into panels and submitted for consideration by the Scientiae 2020 conference committee. Organizers for Poetics before Modernity: Bryan Brazeau (b.brazeau@warwick.ac.uk), Vladimir Brljak (vladimir.brljak@durham.ac.uk), Micha Lazarus (mdsl3@cam.ac.uk).
Further information is available at:
Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World
Scientiae 2020 Call for Papers
POETICS BEFORE MODERNITY CONFERENCE 2017
Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CRASSH)
University of Cambridge, 14-15 December 2017
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27241
Papers are invited for a two-day conference on the history of poetics and literary theory in the West from antiquity to 1700, discussing any aspect of the subject, in any national tradition, by researchers of any disciplinary background. Topics transcending the traditional disciplinary and period boundaries (classical, medieval, Renaissance/early modern) are particularly encouraged, but single-period papers will also be considered. Discussions of non-Western and/or post-1700 materials which illuminate the pre-1700 Western corpus are also invited.
Poetics before Modernity aims to encourage and consolidate new work on developments in Western poetics and literary theory from antiquity to 1700. The project provides a variety of outlets—seminar series, conferences, publications—for the most exciting and compelling research in the field, and hopes to foster a community of scholars working on the subject across traditional disciplinary, national, and period boundaries. The conference follows the eponymous seminar series taking place at the University of Cambridge over 2016-17. For further indication of the range of possible topics and approaches, please see the abstracts of the talks in this series, available at www.english.cam.ac.uk/seminars/poetics/index.html.
This will be a closed conference with pre-circulated papers of around 10-15 pages. Presenters will not read out their papers but will deliver a brief (5-10 minute) summary of the thrust and broader consequences of their argument, followed by a response by a designated respondent and general discussion. Familiarity with all papers will be required from the delegates. All papers (around 150 pages in total) will be circulated shortly after the submission deadline of 25 November 2017. The conference proceedings will be published as an edited volume or special issue.
Papers by early- and mid-career scholars, including advanced doctoral candidates, are particularly encouraged. Limited support for scholars traveling from overseas will be available, with details to be confirmed at a later date. If you would like to request support, please include, along with your abstract and CV, a brief description of your circumstances and need for funding.
There will be a flat conference fee of £30 for all delegates, covering accommodation, conference materials, meals, and refreshments.
Organizers: Dr Vladimir Brljak (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) and Dr Micha Lazarus (Trinity College, Cambridge).
Please send abstracts of up to 500 words with full-length CVs, as well as any inquiries, to poeticsbeforemodernity@gmail.com by 15 June 2017.