by Tony Venezia
21st Century British Fiction Symposium - 12th May 2012, Birkbeck, University of London. CFP deadline 15th March 2012.
21st Century British Fiction Symposium - 12th May 2012, Birkbeck, University of London. Keynote speaker:... more
21st Century British Fiction Symposium - 12th May 2012, Birkbeck, University of London. Keynote speaker: Professor Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway).
Twenty-First Century British Fiction seeks to consider and promote current perspectives on the fiction of British writers in the twenty-first century. Post-millennial writing has proved itself as arguably wide-ranging and innovative as its predecessors. With Granta's next decennial list due in 2013, it seems only fitting and appropriate to survey the twenty-first century’s first decade of British Fiction.
We invite submissions for 20 minute presentations; papers on individual authors and single works are welcome, as are essays on broader trends that explore the cultural, historical and stylistic contexts that have produced twenty-first century British fiction.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, with brief details of biography and affiliation, to Bianca Leggett and Tony Venezia at 21stcentury.symposium@gmail.com no later than 15th March 2012. We also welcome proposals for themed panels of three speakers. We are currently in negotiations with an academic publisher interested in publishing a volume based on the proceedings of the symposium. The symposium is sponsored by the School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London.
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