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[ecrea] New Thematic Section from Culture Unbound: "Literary Public Spheres"

Fri Nov 05 18:57:57 GMT 2010



New thematic section from Culture Unbound: ?Literary Public Spheres?
<http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html>http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural research is an open access e-journal that seeks to be a forum for contemporary, cutting edge cultural research from a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. Culture Unbound has just published a new thematic section entitled ?Literary Public Spheres?, edited by Torbjörn Forslid and Anders Ohlsson.


In today?s literary public sphere, different artistic and commercial interests converge. Dissolution of genres and transgression of borders has become the rule, rather than the exception. The objective of this thematic section on ?Literary Public Spheres? is to broaden the scope of literary studies by exploring how both writers and readers employ literature for a variety of purposes in a wide range of public settings. It considers the public conversation about literature, as a crucial part of literature itself and explores how literary texts become the subject of debate, negation or dialogue centred on contemporary values and opinions of popular concern.

This overarching theme covers a wide field of more specific scholarly perspectives that explore literature?s shifting role in different public spheres, past as well as present. Subjects include the press of 18th century Scandinavia, Postsoviet educational policy, historical lexicography, the visual performance of authorship, the role of the essayist and the mechanisms of present day book blogging, while the theoretical perspectives range from Jürgen Habermas to Friedrich Kittler.

Featured articles are:

Torbjörn Forslid & Anders Ohlsson, ?Literary Public Spheres?
Patrik Lundell, ?Participation, Representation and Media System: Habermasian Paths to the Past? Emma Eldelin, ?An Amateur?s Raid in a World of Specialists? The Swedish Essay in Contemporary Public Debates? Ann Steiner, ?Personal Readings and Public Texts: Book Blogs and Online Writing about Literature? Karin Sarsenov, ?The Literature Curriculum in Russia: Cultural Nationalism vs. The Cultural Turn?
Jon Helgason, ?Why ABC Matters: Lexicography and Literary History?
Torbjörn Forslid & Anders Ohlsson, ?The Author on Stage: Björn Ranelid as Performance Artist?

You can access all articles for free at:
<http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html>http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html


We also welcome new article manuscripts in all areas of cultural research, as well as proposals for future theme sections.

Martin Fredriksson
Executive Editor
Culture Unbound
<mailto:(Martin.fredriksson /at/ liu.se)>(Martin.fredriksson /at/ liu.se)

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