[ecrea] Essay collection -- call for contributions -- Terrible Beauties: Europe, Conflict and the Imagination in Literature and the Arts

Terrible Beauties: Europe, Conflict and the Imagination in Literature 
and the Arts


A RATIONALE FOR THE COLLECTION

Episodes of conflict have often proved to be watersheds in the history 
of Europe, its states and its peoples. Wars have involved the redrawing 
of maps and the reconfiguration of identities of smaller as well as 
larger units – of nations, localities, institutions, and the connecting 
networks of solidarity and allegiance. Conflict has dictated the rise 
and fall of states and political regimes, the slaughter and displacement 
of populations, the destruction of infrastructures; it has also entailed 
medical and technological progress, and stood at the roots of much 
social innovation and artistic creativity. Additionally, war has played 
a central role in the relationship between Europeans and people in other 
parts of the world, most notably Africa, Asia and the Americas in the 
long course of modern imperialism. From Agincourt to the Somme, from 
Balaclava to El Alamein, the history of civilization is inextricable 
from the history of catastrophe. Indeed, not a few catastrophes have 
been caused in the name of civilization.

The present peer-reviewed collection aims at considering the 
consequences that a history of conflict(s) in Europe has had, within 
imaginative production, for an ongoing refashioning of perceived 
identities. The volume is intended to showcase and discuss the impact of 
such processes on literary and artistic representations, with an 
emphasis on materials from the British Isles but preferably also from a 
comparatist perspective.

The collection reflects the ongoing concerns of a research group, 
Relational Forms: Medial and Textual Transits in Ireland and Britain, 
based at CETAPS (the Centre for English, Translation and 
Anglo-Portuguese Studies), which has been responsible for a wide gamut 
of publications, including Relational Designs in Literature and the 
Arts: Page and Stage, Canvas and Screen, ed. Rui Carvalho Homem (Rodopi: 
2012), and English Literature and the Disciplines of Knowledge, Early 
Modern to Eighteenth Century: A Trade for Light, ed. Jorge Bastos da 
Silva and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes (Brill-Rodopi: 2017).

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

We invite contributions of essays (6000-8000 words) consistent with the 
volume rationale outlined above. Suggested (merely indicative) topics 
include:
- European wars in literature and the arts
- rout and road: narratives of disaster and displacement
- heroism, patriotism, faith, adventure, trauma
- poetry and battlefields, self and community
- reviewing the massacre: verbal and visual reenactments of war scenarios
- conflict, identity, translation: representations across media / across 
languages
- drama, war and Europe: “a nation thinking in public...”
- shooting Europe: film, war and memory
- war after peace, peace after war

Prospective contributors should send an extended abstract (250-300 
words) to (relational /at/ letras.up.pt). The deadline for the submission of 
abstracts is 31 March 2018. Contributors will be notified of the 
editors’ decision before 30 April 2018. The collection is due to be 
published by a global publisher in 2019.



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