Writing in a Cold Climate: Belarusian Literature from the 1970s to the Present Day

January 29th, 2010

The MHRA is delighted to announce the publication of the 18th volume in the PMHRA series: Writing in a Cold Climate: Belarusian Literature from the 1970s to the Present Day

This monograph, the first of its kind, attempts to describe and assess the work of nearly two hundred Belarusian writers and literary groups, ranging over poetry, prose and drama. The coverage includes provincial as well as metropolitan literature and groupings, and pays particular attention to seven outstanding authors of the period, to historical writing which is particularly important in a country where history has been suppressed and denied, and to the youngest generation of talented poets and prose writers born in the early 1980s at the very end of the Soviet Union’s existence.

Further details are available here.

University Theses in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies from 1907 — database updated

January 19th, 2010

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The MHRA is pleased to announce the updating of the UTREES database with a further 200+ records relating to recent theses.

Beginning in a handful of universities in the early years of the last century, British and Irish postgraduate research on Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe grew rapidly in the post-war period. It has been given further impetus by the fall of communism and the multitude of political, cultural and economic consequences which ensued. This bibliography registers a full century of academic study devoted to a vitally important area of the world.

The bibliography records doctoral and selected masters’ theses from British and Irish universities – over 3,700 in all. It covers all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences as they relate to the area of Russia, the former USSR and Eastern Europe. It is believed to be the fullest and longest record of postgraduate research in any interdisciplinary field of study, and reveals a strikingly broad range of topics and treatments: from Pushkin to Putin; from the Cold War to the transition economies; from the Bogomils to Solidarity; and from health care to human rights.

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MLR January 2010 now published

January 11th, 2010

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The January 2010 issue of The Modern Language Review is now available both in print and online. This issue includes articles on:

‘Strange’, ‘foreign’, and ‘alien’ in Medieval England; Lord Fairfax on the Breeding of Horses; Milton, Locke, and Cosmopolitan Right; Reading Ruskin; Camus’s Le Premier Homme; Aimé Césaire and Postcolonial Humanism; Women, Language Games, and Debates in the Cinquecento; The Title of Quevedo’s Buscón; Soy paciente and the Fear of Individual Freedom; The First English Translation of Mann’s Das Gesetz; as well as more than 80 book reviews.

The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.

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MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities: 2009 issue now published

November 10th, 2009

Space/Time, the fourth issue of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, is now available open-access online.

It features articles on: French Catholic Writers between the Mimetic Crisis and the Crucified; Vertiginous Spaces in Bataille’s Le Bleu du ciel; The Rebirth of Inherited Memories; Melville’s Benito Cereno; Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Arte; and Mobile Narrative, Spatial Mediation, and Gaskell’s Urban Rustics in North and South.

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.

MHRA Research Associateships 2010-2011

November 5th, 2009

The Association intends to make up to four research awards of £17,500 for the academic session 2010-11. These awards will not be made to individuals as such, but to established corporate projects such as dictionaries, textual editions, bibliographies, or other major scholarly enterprises, within the field of medieval and modern European languages and literatures. The awards are designed to hasten the completion of projects of special importance through the provision of part-time research assistance. The awards will normally be for one year only, but applications will be considered from projects which have previously held an Associateship.

Details are available here.

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MHRA Conference Grants 2010-2011

November 5th, 2009

The MHRA intends to make up to five grants of up to £1,500 each to support conferences or colloquia within the field of medieval and modern European languages and literatures (including English) planned for the academic session 2010–11 and held in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2010.

These awards will not be made to individuals to attend conferences, but to the organizers of conferences to provide assistance with organizational support and/or the travel and subsistence costs of certain participants, including postgraduate students.

Details are available here.

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SEER (87:4) October 2009 now published

October 27th, 2009

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The October 2009 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review is now published in print and online, with scholarly contributions on Slavonic language, literature, and history.

This issue includes articles on Platonov’s Chevengur; Austria-Hungary, Serbia and the Bosnian Question 1867-71; A Translation of the Gesta Hungorum of the Anonymous Notary of King Béla.

The contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available here, with links to the full text online.

 

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Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature for report year 2008 now published

October 22nd, 2009

Volume 83 of The Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, which covers material published in the year 2008, is now published. This new volume includes more than 19,000 records of articles, books, and reviews relating to English-language literature published throughout the world.

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MLR October 2009 now published

October 8th, 2009

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The October 2009 issue of The Modern Language Review is now available both in print and online. This issue includes articles on: Spenser’s Rosalind; Geoffrey Hill’s A Treatise of Civil Power; Voltaire’s ‘Racine’; Balzac and Neologism; Self-Love and Self-Sacrifice in Leopardi; ‘The Garden of Deceit’ of María de Zayas; Unamuno’s Cómo se hace una novela; Kafka’s Literary Communities; Heym’s ‘Great Upheavals Make for Great Opportunities’; ‘Stavrogin’s Confession’ and the Creation of Mrs Dalloway; as well as the text of the 2009 MHRA Presidential Address and more than 75 book reviews.

The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.

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Portuguese Studies 25:2 (2009) is now published

September 24th, 2009

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The autumn issue of Portuguese Studies is now available and includes articles on Political Aspects in the Nomination of Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira to the Patriarchate of Lisbon; Fernando Pessoa and the Portuguese Sublime; Performance and the Mobilization of Identity in Pepetela’s Lueji. O Nascimento de um Império; `Terra de Espanha’: A Medieval Iberian Utopia; Images of Castile in Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Pamphlets; Conceptions of Iberism in Portugal in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.

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