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<p class="MsoNormal">CFP: Special Session on “Theatre-Fiction” at MLA Convention in Toronto (Graham Wolfe)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MLA Annual Convention (Toronto, Jan 7-10 2021); abstracts by March 1 2020:
<a href="mailto:graham.wolfe@nus.edu.sg"><span style="color:#0563C1">graham.wolfe@nus.edu.sg</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m seeking papers for a special session on the topic of “theatre-fiction”, i.e. novels or stories about theatre.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Theatre has made star appearances in dozens of novels, from J. W. Goethe’s
<i>Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship</i> to Mikhail Bulgakov’s <i>Black Snow</i>, Virginia Woolf’s
<i>Between the Acts</i>, and Margaret Atwood’s <i>Hag-Seed</i>. There are naturalist theatre-novels (George Moore’s
<i>A Mummer’s Wife</i>), historical theatre-novels (John Arden’s <i>Silence Among the Weapons</i> or Priya Parmar’s
<i>Exit the Actress</i>), children’s theatre-novels (Noel Streatfeild’s <i>Ballet Shoes</i> and
<i>Curtain Up</i>), detective theatre-novels (Ngaio Marsh’s <i>Opening Night</i> and
<span lang="EN-GB">Nicola Upson’s <i>An Expert in Murder</i></span>), and even science-fiction theatre-novels (Christopher Stasheff’s
<i>A Company of Stars</i>). But while literary genres such as science fiction, detective fiction, or Western fiction have been extensively theorized, “theatre-fiction” has not received the attention that this enduringly popular and provocatively intermedial
genre deserves. This special session seeks to bring together scholars who are interested in theatre-fiction from different eras and parts of the world, asking what happens to theatre on the pages of novels, and what happens to novels when they spotlight theatre.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you’re interested in writing about theatre-fiction but unable to attend the MLA Convention in Toronto, I’m still interested in hearing from you since I’m hoping to put together a collection of chapters on the topic.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">By March 1 please send 300-word abstracts to Graham Wolfe, National University of Singapore:
<a href="mailto:graham.wolfe@nus.edu.sg"><span style="color:#0563C1">graham.wolfe@nus.edu.sg</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Graham Wolfe, Ph.D :: Associate Professor :: Dept of English Language and Literature :: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences :: National University
of Singapore :: AS5 06-07, 7 Arts Link :: Singapore 117570 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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