MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities

The MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities is an electronic publication forum intended to allow researchers to present initial findings or hypotheses such as might, at a more advanced stage, become eligible for publication in established scholarly journals. As such it will be of particular interest to postgraduate researchers, though established scholars are also invited to submit papers.




CALL FOR PAPERS:

Contributions are now invited for the 2008 issue. A special, themed section of the journal will be dedicated to 'Translation, Adaptation and Transformation,' though papers on other topics are also welcome.

The third issue of the Working Papers will be published in November 2008, and the editorial panel aims to choose half of the papers from submissions that relate to the theme of 'Translation, Adaptation and Transformation'.

Authors might consider, among other things:

  • the theory of literary and cultural translation/transfer
  • the relationship between translation/adaptation and reception
  • case studies of cultural/literary transfer and adaptation
  • transformation, adaptation, translation or conversion as literary tropes/themes
  • cultural transfers from East to West; high to low; male to female; straight to queer (and vice/versa)
  • literary history and transformations across time
  • transgender; transexuality; cross-dressing
  • geographical transfer/exchange of people, ideas and culture: diaspora,
  • transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, transculturation, migration, emigration, immigration, racial passing
  • rewriting, stage/film/literary adaptation, multimodal/transmedial representations
  • conversion narratives
  • makeovers, aesthetic transformation, modernization
  • technology and knowledge transfer
Papers may come from any field in the 'modern humanities', which include the modern and mediaeval languages, literatures, and cultures of Europe (including English and the Slavonic languages, and the cultures of the European diaspora).
History, social sciences, library studies, education and pedagogy, and the medical application of linguistics are excluded.

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 1 MAY, 2008.

In order to submit a paper, you are kindly requested to register as an author on the journal's website at ; thereafter, submissions may be made via the website or via email to the editors (see below).

Queries or questions should be directed to the editors.

Author guidelines

Vol 2 (2007)

Table of Contents

Articles

Dictionary Words and Living Language: Radical Challenges to Language Theory in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Abstract PDF
Andrew Richard Cooper 1-10
Diderot, Spinoza, and the Question of Virtue Abstract PDF
Louise Crowther 11-18
'Botschafter der Musik': The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Role of Classical Music in Post-War German Identity. Abstract PDF
Lauren Freede 19-29
Germany’s Identity Problems as Reflected in Nineteenth-Century Literature Abstract PDF
Hans-Joachim Hahn 30-48
The Translation of Identity: Subtitling the Vernacular of the French cité Abstract PDF
Pierre-Alexis Mével 49-56
The Leibnizian Monad and the Self through the Lens of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s and Samuel Beckett’s Writings Abstract PDF
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi 57-68


ISSN: 1994-8662

Last updated: 02/03/2008