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Department of Comparative World Literature & Classics
California State University, Long Beach
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2008
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Call for submissions for genre 29, an International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and the Arts, for an issue on Arrivals and Departures, the same theme as that of the 2008 conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (http://www.acla.org/acla2008/) hosted by California State University, Long Beach. We welcome submissions of papers on a wide range of topics pertaining to figurative, literal, emotional, intellectual, and all manner of journeys and trajectories involving the dialectic of motion and stillness, including aborted arrivals and failed departures. From traditional travel narratives to accounts of Exiles’ return, reverse migration, and diaspora, the theme is open to a full spectrum of possibilities of interest to comparatists.
Send an explanatory email with your institutional affiliation and your full mailing address to the editor at genrejournal@gmail.com, and attach the essay (word document or PDF file) you would like to submit to that email. Deadline for receipt of papers (size limit: 4000 words) is extended to 15 May, 2008. Please include a 200-word abstract to be published along with your paper. All papers should use the MLA style with parenthetical sources and a works cited but without footnotes or endnotes.
Timelines: We want to publish the issue in January 2009. When we send you the recommendations for changes and corrections, please make sure to effect those and to return the paper as promptly as possible, within six weeks at the most. or else we may not be able to proceed with the delinquent paper. Contributors will receive two free copies of the journal.
Submission Guidelines
All papers should follow the MLA (Modern Language Association of America) style and obey the following guidelines:
1- Include parenthetical sources and a works cited but no footnotes or endnotes. IF YOU MUST use endnotes, keep those to a minimum, format them like you do normal text, and place them after the paper and immediately before the works cited.
2- Italicize titles of books, journals, foreign words, and for emphasis. Do not use bold or underlining.
3- Articles should be between 4000 and 5000 words in length. They should be double-spaced and use a 12 point font throughout.
4- All passages not originally in English should be translated into English in the endnotes.
5. Make sure you obtain reprint permissions of images you want to include (keep those to a minimum). Otherwise, please do not send them.
6. Do not use the space bar for a new paragraph. Use the tab button.
7. Do not use hard returns at the end of each line. Enter hard returns only at the end of each paragraph to drop down to a new line.
8. Your manuscript should be numbered sequentially (do not begin each page with page 1)
9. Short quotations appear in the main text, set off by quotation marks. Indented quotations (block quotes) are centered and do not use quotation marks.
10. You can use subheadings. These are bolded and centered.
11. Do not change font size throughout the manuscript.
12. The Works Cited should have "hanging indents". The first line of each entry id flush left, and all following lines are indented
Sample (Model) Paper Model Paper
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LAST YEAR’S CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2007
Call for submissions for Issue 28 of Genre, an International Journal of Literature and
the Arts at California State University, Long Beach, for an issue on
Women, Sexuality and Early Modern Studies. We welcome submissions of papers
on a full range of topics addressing writings by and about women and the
feminine in the medieval and renaissance periods, including interchanges
between East and West. Papers can be devoted (but not limited) to:
medieval and early modern female authors and/or figures, depictions of the
feminine in medieval and renaissance European and/or Arabic literature,
contemporary invocations of medieval femininity, women and hagiography,
religious education and women, women and the arts, women in courtly
poetry, in sufi literature, or in medieval Islam; feminist women in the
Thousand and One NIghts, mothers, daughters, and matriarchy. Papers with
comparative topics and methodologies are especially welcome. All papers
should follow the MLA Modern Language Association of America style with
parenthetical sources and a works cited but without footnotes or end notes
and be no longer than 5000 words. Deadline of receipt of papers is May 15th, 2007.
Send papers to genrejournal@gmail.com
Department of Comparative Literature & Classics
California State University, Long Beach
37th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
March 1-2, 2002
Citizen of the World:
Cosmopolitanism and Its Ancient Antecedents
Edward Said
Keynote Speaker
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposed topics include but are not limited to:
! Redefining cosmopolitanism identity
! The politics of cosmopolitanism
! Citizen of the world and the end of frontiers
! Oppositions to ethnic and cultural chauvinism
! Cosmopolitanism and intellectual freedom
! Ancient philosophy and the state
! Urban odysseys
! Redefining city walls and boundaries
! The image of the ancient and modern iconoclast
! Asceticism and the cosmopolitan
! Contemporary culture and the travel of thought
! Information without borders
! Cosmopolitan topography
! Invisible cities and cosmopolitan fantasies
! The dandy as a cosmopolitan trope
! The fool in the city
! Aesthetics of the city and the cosmos
! Cityscapes and escapes in art and literature
! Celluloid cities and citizens
! Hotel California and nowhere man
! City of signs and the simulacrum |
