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[ecrea] Call for Papers: Detecting Detection in Modern Narrative

Mon Nov 02 06:48:49 GMT 2009



CFP: Detecting Detection: Reading Detection as Motif in Modern Narrative

Extended Deadline: January 15, 2010.

Apologies for cross-posting

What is detective work, and who might do it? What needs to be detected, and why? How does the narrative structure of detection function within a larger plot? While a great deal of fruitful investigation has been done on the detective story, relatively little attention has been given to the role of detection as one motif among others?that is, to the accidental or incidental detectives who appear so persistently in literary works, who investigate matters that may not even officially count as ?crimes. ? By bringing together different instances of its use, the collection will explore the current meanings of detection as a narrative device.

Investigations might treat, among other possibilities, the role of detection in constructing or articulating the following:

--gender
--identity
--melancholy
--militarism
--economic or environmental justice
--family
--sexuality
--race
--individualism
--genre

The collection will be edited by Peter Baker and Deborah Shaller. Please send 300-500 word abstracts by e-mail to (dshaller /at/ towson.edu). Queries at the same address are welcome at any time.


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