Call for Papers – PHILOLOGIA 2/2017
Thematic focus: Epistolary literature in philology
Letters have been written from time immemorial and have become an integral part of our culture. This fact is rather neglected by philology, and letter communication is treated as a corpus of cultural historical documents with heuristic value, usually in other non-philological research fields. In this traditionally interdisciplinary field, the so-called general epistolary research has developed. Thus, epistolary research is, above all, a research area which can only be made meaningful when dealt with interdisciplinarity. Literary scholars, linguists, historians, sociologists, psychologists, cognitive researchers, rhetoricians, theologians, etc. are interested in letters in order to provide material to their specific research focus.
The letter is generally regarded as a communicative fact. Thus, in letters and through letters, one communicates in the first place. In other words, social practices of communication become visible in letters. Therefore, communication and mediological considerations are also of utmost importance in the context of our focus.
Letters are also used as historical sources in philological disciplines. When dealing with letters, it is therefore important to see letter communication in the context of time, and it is clear that from the beginnings, historical epistolary research was fully concerned with the historically relevant facts expressed in letters. Literary historians, for example, see a specific genre in letters, which, by its very nature, is a favourite source of biographical, sociohistorical, historical investigations, investigations in production in reception history, and so on.
For this reason, we consider it of great importance to pay more attention to this complexity in the epistolary research, and to devote the broadly scatteredissue a corresponding diversified focus in our journal.
According to the intention of the editors, the contributions should cover the following areas of literary and linguistic research:
1. Cultural and sociohistorical aspects
- Literary history research in letters
- Letters as a formative in belles lettres, etc.
2. Textual and pragmaticalanalysis of letter communication
- Reflections on the text-pragmatic analysis approach
- Letter from a communicative-pragmatic point of view, etc.
3. Aspects of the text type
4. Narratological / psychonarratological aspects
5. Mediological aspects
- Adaptation of letters in other literary and artistic forms, etc.
6. Gender-specific aspects (female letter culture)
7. Aspects of the theory transfer for epistolary research
- Cognitive sciences
- Emotional research
- Perception theory
- Psychology etc.
Submission deadline for proposals with the corresponding theses: 30 June 2017
Submission deadline: 30 September 2017
Editors:
prof. PhDr.LadislavŠimon, CSc.
prof. PhDr. Mária Vajičková, CSc.
Mgr. Roman Mikuláš, PhD.
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