Announcements

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In addition to the members of the Advisory Board, Dale Bauer, Peter Collister, John Gibson, Elsie Michie, Omri Moses, Alan Nadel, Dana Ringuette, Susan Ryan, Talia Schaffer, and Kenneth Warren have reviewed submissions for HJR in 2013–14, giving generously of their time and expertise. We express our sincere thanks to them for their contribution.

CALLS FOR PAPERS

FREDRIC JAMESON, HENRY JAMES

For over four decades, Fredric Jameson has been one of the major theorists of realism, modernism, post-modernism, and their ideologies. While he has not written directly on Henry James in a sustained way, James’s writing is, nonetheless, threaded throughout Jameson’s work: as example, as critical authority, as historical witness. As early as 1971, he situated James’s writing as a turning point in the history of the novel. For Jameson, this is not merely as a matter of literary invention: James’s fiction and criticism are symptomatic of and significant in their historical circumstances. In The Political Unconscious (1981), Jameson declared that James’s “invention of point of view (or better still, . . . codification of this already existing technique, his transformation of it into the most fundamental of narrative categories, and the development around it of a whole aesthetic) is an historical act” (221).

Jameson’s James is above all associated with point of view and irony, individualism and psychology. And this is no more so the case than in Jameson’s most recent book, The Antinomies of Realism (2013), in which Henry James is, variously, “the fundamental theoretician” of English-language narratology (21), a reluctant admirer of Zola (66–67), “a minor character in real life, a listener and observer, a voyeur and a gossip” (101), an astute reader of Romola (124), an “apolitical” writer (157), the source of a chapter epigraph (163), and the author whose “critical and theoretical reflections on the art of the novel, . . . have been as fundamental for narrative analysis in modern times as Aristotle’s for the classical world” (181).

For this special issue, submissions are invited on all aspects of Jameson and James, including:

• Jameson’s writing on James

• Jamesonian and Jamesian theories

• The evolution of Jameson on James

• How James’s work supports, contradicts, modifies, shifts Jameson’s

• How Jameson’s writings might inform and alter our understandings of James texts

• Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism

• Jameson, James, Booth

• Point of view, irony, and individualism

• Psychology and the novel

• James and Jameson on the Visual Arts

• Jameson and James and film

Contributions should be produced according to current MLA style. One-page proposals or short (10–12 pages) essays should be sent electronically by March 1, 2015, to hjamesr@louisville.edu. Please identify your manuscript as a Jameson Forum submission.

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW BICENTIENNIAL CREATIVE WRITING AND LITERATURE CONFERENCE

June 11–13, 2015

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Keynotes: Martín Espada, Patricia Hampl, Steven Schwartz

The North American Review, the longest-lived literary magazine in the United States, is pleased to announce that it is now accepting submissions to its Bicentennial Creative Writing & Literature Conference, to be held on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA, June 11–13, 2015. The editors invite proposals for individual papers, pre-formed panels (3–4 panelists), or roundtable discussions (4–6 participants).

Critical papers, panels, and roundtables may be submitted on any literary or cultural topic, theme, author, art work, or text that has some connection (broadly conceived) to the North American Review. Group society proposals are welcome.

Creative Writing proposals may include readings of your own creative work, explorations of the craft and theory of writing, or discussions of creative writing pedagogy, the publishing world, the professionalization of creative writing, or creative writing as a discipline in the university.

Visit https://northamericanreview.submittable.com/submit to upload your submission. Deadline for submissions is January, 16, 2015.

More details about the magazine (including a list of notable contributors) and the conference can be found at http://northamericanreview.wordpress.com and www.northamericanreview.org.

The entire North American Review archives can be accessed digitally via the JSTOR database (http://www.jstor.org); issues appearing from 1815 to 1899 can be...