The International Rhetoric Council Press is pleased to announce a call for papers for a new monograph series, The Poetics of Reception, to be published in Spring 2001. Textuality itself comes fraught with a wide range of definitions and complications, not least among them the question of reception. We take as a postmodern given the distance between what is written and how it is received, but what occurs at this moment of reception? What are the difficulties of receiving as well as transmitting? Recognizing the multivalent nature of reception, we invite dialogue around the nature and implications of reception and its attendant given, the placement that reception implies. We hope to encourage participation of scholars from varied and diverse disciplines - from both the sciences and the humanities, inviting voices poetic as well as critical.
Each submission should include:
- A title and brief description.
- A 500-word abstract.
- Name, address, institutional affiliation, and phone number(s) or email.
Please submit proposals, abstracts, or full papers by 15 December 2000 to:
Aaron Nielsenshultz
Department of English
1202 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
RA (source: CFP)