CFP Cowrie

点击蓝字，关注我们

Special Issue on General and Comparative Literature (2024) (Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature)

Deadline for Submissions: 

Now accepting rolling/ongoing submissions 

Full Title of the Journal: 

Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature 

Contact Email: 

[e-mail] 

Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature is a comprehensive, quarterly English academic journal that covers a wide range of topics, including but not limited to, national literature, comparative literature, comparison of the literary with other spheres of human expression, and Sino-other relations. The journal reassumes the Cowrie launched by the late comparatist and pioneer of Chinese comparative literature Sun Jingyao, and thus is a continuation of the spirit of the prestigious and groundbreaking publication founded and published in China in the 1980s.

Five keywords foreground the journal’s ultimate missions and goals, namely, cowrie, diversity, interculturalism, interdisciplinarity and mutuality. Cowrie makes the most of the word’s etymological meaning as a medium for communications, exchange, and interactions. Diversity seeks to promote cultural diversity by embracing literary expressions and scholarly work of both emerging and established scholars of diverse ages, genders, races, and religions. Interculturalism indicates that the journal aims to develop into a publication that invites contributions beyond national boundaries and facilitates cross-cultural connections and interactions. Intrdisciplinarity features an exploration of the nexus between literary study and other disciplines. And mutuality not only enhances cultural sensitivity and allows for empathic understanding across different cultures, but also invites mutual dialogues and understanding between the study of comparative literature and other disciplines, ideologies, and cultural approaches of critique. 

The journal returns to and carries forth Goethe’s groundbreaking idea of Weltliteratur. In line with drastic transformations happening in scholarly exchanges between China and abroad today, it provides a platform for the publishing of original comparative work on global culture and literature both domestically and internationally. By this token, the journal casts around for original work of comparative literature, world literature, comparative poetics, and comparative culture. 

Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature now calls for submissions to its 2024 volume, mainly inviting original work of national literature, comparative literature, world literature, comparative poetics, and comparative culture. It focuses on two different columns: (1) “Special Issue Topics,” which focuses on current and popular topics in domestic and international academic contexts; and (2) “Articles,” which are original research papers written in response to particular topics compiled by leading experts of relevant fields. Comparative literature yearly reports and interviews will also be periodically included. The focal points of submissions are to fall within the broad fields of cultural and literary studies in comparative perspective. Some potential areas of exploration include, but are not limited to:

●comparative literature

●world literature

●comparative poetics

●comparative culture

●national literature

●the literature of exile

●literary theory and literary criticism

●close-reading and textuality

●literature and philosophy

●literature and eco-criticism

●health literacy

●literature and religion

●literature and theatre

●digital humanities

●comparative media studies

●comparative communication studies

●translation studies

●gender theory and criticism

●interculturalism

●comparative context and disciplinarity

●comparative philology

●comparative history of literatures

●popular culture and literature

●transnational discourses

●paratexts

The first round of full submission can be submitted for consideration to [e-mail] by March 1, 2024, with publication after peer review expected during 2024. Currently, Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature is published by De Gruyter Academic Publishing in Open Access and electronic format exclusively. The journal’s manuscript preparation guidelines follow the Chicago Manual of Style (The University of Chicago Press; 17th Edition).

 责编：张   超 校对：张世琳

 编审：熊   莺 主编：纪建勋

中文投稿邮箱：[e-mail]

英文投稿邮箱：[e-mail]

版权所有 | 欢迎转载