{"id":444,"date":"2020-09-23T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/italian-woolf\/?p=444"},"modified":"2020-09-23T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:20:56","slug":"reading-woolf-in-europe-cfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/italian-woolf\/reading-woolf-in-europe-cfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Woolf in Europe – CFP"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am really happy and excited to share the Call for papers for the international conference ‘Reading Woolf in Europe<\/span><\/strong>\u2019, which will be held at the University of Reading<\/strong>, UK, from 24 to 26 June 2021<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The conference will be the final event of my Marie Curie project \u2018Virginia Woolf and Italian Readers\u2019 and I hope it will offer the ground for a profitable exchange of knowledge on Virginia Woolf, publishing studies, reception studies, archive studies, translation studies and much more.<\/div>\n
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The conference is meant to take place as a \u2018face to face\u2019 event at the University of Reading, UK, but we are considering the possibility to make it hybrid and organise some sessions of the conference on-line, to make it more inclusive. Should you prefer to attend the conference remotely please let us know when you send your proposal.<\/div>\n
Given the extraordinary circumstances we are currently experiencing, we are also setting up a contingency plan that will allow us to hold the entire conference on-line, should the Covid-19 situation not be resolved by March next year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Please share the link to the CFP<\/a> with your colleagues, or download the call as .pdf file<\/a>. We look forward to reading your proposals!<\/div>\n
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Abstract Proposal Deadline:\u00a0<\/strong>1 December 2020
\nE-mail<\/strong>: e.bolchi@reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n

Eighteen years have passed since the publication of the volume The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe<\/em>, edited by Mary Ann Caws and Nicola Luckhurst as part of the project \u2018The reception of British authors in Continental Europe\u2019. This landmark project proved how the study of the reception of authors in Europe is \u201cpart of the grander task of considering the history and culture of Europe as a whole, rather than isolated national histories with a narrow national perspective\u201d (Caws and Luckhurst 2002). The study of literary reception across languages and cultures stimulates new responses in wider disciplinary fields. The European context, characterized by a variety of historical, political and socio-cultural circumstances, can offer enriching insights both into the study of a single author and into a comparative analysis of the translation and reception processes in the different language zones.<\/p>\n

Bearing in mind the theoretical and critical approaches of reader response theory, reception studies, and of literary translation and cultural mediation studies, this conference aims to explore how the way in which Virginia Woolf\u2019s work has been translated, published, distributed, reviewed and discussed has influenced how she was read by the \u2018common readers\u2019 in Europe. Moving from Jauss\u2019s lesson that \u201cliterature and art only obtain a history that has the character of a process when the succession of works is mediated not only through the producing subject but also through the consuming subject\u2013through the interaction of author and public\u201d (Jauss 1982), the aim is to delineate the cultural and literary mediation around Woolf\u2019s works in Europe also in order to identify and characterize her European readers through.<\/p>\n

Following more recent lines of inquiry that look at translated literature as \u201cpart of the target literature\u2019s literary corpus\u201d (Even-Zohar 1990 and Sisto 2019), it is now timely to investigate how the translations of Virginia Woolf\u2019s works have become part of the literary poly-systems (Even-Zohar 1990) across various language zones, and to assess the extent to which these translations had a role in the creation of a foreign canon in the country of arrival (La Penna 2008). To understand how Woolf\u2019s works were \u2013 or were not \u2013 available in particular marketplaces, text materiality studies (Wilson and Battershill 2018) and the study of censorship can provide relevant lines of investigation which may provide answers to Billiani\u2019s question \u201cto what extent does censorship, when applied to translation, succeed in producing new textual spaces and generating new sites of meaning?\u201d (Billiani 2007)<\/p>\n

The main aim of the conference is to foster a critical discussion on the cultural mediation of Woolf in European countries with specific focus on how literary institutions (publishing houses and book series, literary periodicals), literary agents (translators, literary agents, editors), and the composite sociocultural factors driving the selection, production, and publication of Woolf\u2019s works \u201csocially framed\u201d (Long 1992) the reading of her works and shaped her readers through processes of popularization and canonization in the literary systems in Europe. We welcome contributions focussing on microhistories of translations and re-translations, specific trends of scholarly reception, Woolf\u2019s reception in literary periodicals and her role in the intellectual debate of European countries. In addition, we would like to explore the importance of digital humanities, of the web and of social media in creating \u201ccommunities of practice\u201d (Wenger et al. 2002) around Woolf\u2019s works and thought.<\/p>\n

Topics may include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n