[Commlist] Call for Papers: Special Issue on 'The Author'

      Call for Papers: Book 2.0 📢

Special Issue: ‘The Author’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/book-20#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/book-20#call-for-papers>

Authors mean different things at different times and in different 
contexts. For example, the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary 
conceives it as ‘[a] writer, and senses relating to literature’ and ‘[a] 
creator, cause, or source’. In 2004, Andrew Bennett suggested that 
‘questioning the nature of authorship’ can be a hallmark of crises and 
turning points in literature.

Nearly sixty years after Roland Barthes declared ‘The Death of the 
Author’, conversations about AI dominate a range of discourses, and it 
can be increasingly challenging to determine what constitutes authorship 
and who or what we might consider an author and how. Can one, for 
example, co-write with ChatGPT? Can a natural language processing tool, 
with its changing methodologies and unfixed ethical frameworks, be an 
author? Who has a claim over the resultant intellectual property? How 
have fiction and poetry responded (or not) to these dynamics?

As critics, we might quickly single out discontinuities between the good 
old ‘then’ and the bad new ‘now’, but are there continuities between how 
earlier and how contemporary writers understand ‘The Author’? Can a 
single author ‘do’ different voices? If so, how? How do these debates 
speak to the ongoing crises in the humanities?

In celebration of fifteen years of Book 2.0(Intellect Books) and 
dedicated to this peer-reviewed journal’s esteemed founding editor, Mick 
Gowar, Volume 15 Issue 1 will examine this construct and more. Articles 
and creative works of 4–5,000 words (prose) or 1–2,000 words (poetry) 
might address:

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    Property

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    Claims

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    Litigation

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    Gender

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    Performance

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    Class

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    Authority

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    Artificial intelligence

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    Co-authorship

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    Group authorship

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    Anonymity

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    Theft

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    Coteries

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    Writing circles

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    Speech acts

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    Resistance

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    Tradition and revolution

Please submit your manuscript, with a 300-word abstract and eight 
keywords, to the new Co-Editors of Book 2.0: Drs Tom Ue (Cape Breton 
University) at (ue_tom /at/ hotmail.com) <mailto:(ue_tom /at/ hotmail.com)>AND J.C. 
Bernthal (University of Suffolk) at (jamie /at/ jcbernthal.com) 
<mailto:(jamie /at/ jcbernthal.com)>by 15 October 2024.

We welcome reviews of 1,500–2,500 words on related topics. Please 
contact the Editors before beginning a review to avoid overlaps and for 
more information about the journal’s review scope.

A link to Intellect’s style guide can be found here:

https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2160/house-style-guide-6th-ed.-i.pdf. 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2160/house-style-guide-6th-ed.-i.pdf.>

All correspondence should be directed to BOTH Drs Ue AND Bernthal.


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