CFP - Slavic Worlds of Imagination 3: Metamorphoses
International Conference “Slavic Worlds of Imagination 3: Metamorphoses”
23-24 September 2019, Cracow, Poland
The Children's and Youth Literature Research Centre of the Faculty of Polish Studies and the Institute of Slavonic Philology (Jagiellonian University) are hosting the third meeting in the cycle “Slavic Worlds of Imagination.” This time we would like to focus on the potential of changes, metamorphoses, and transformations in Slavic literatures for children, youth and fantasy, along with literary work based on the Bildungsroman tradition. We invite reflections and discussion on the following topics:
- metamorphoses of characters in children's and youth literatures of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (metamorphoses in fairy tales, changing people into animals or plants and opposite, magical transformations)
- moral metamorphoses of characters, transgressions of opposition good-evil in Slavic children's and youth literature and in fantasy
- coming through the life stages, rites of passage
- Slavic Bildungsroman, narrations about the adolescence in literatures of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
- metamorphoses of literary genres in the area of children's and youth literature
- motif of the evanescence in Slavic literature for children and youth and in fantasy
- historical, social, and cultural transformations in Slavic literature for children and youth and in fantasy
- generation changes in literature, generation gap
- resistance to the change
- changes in reception of certain literary works, changes in literary canons
- changes of literary works for adults into children's literature and vice-versa
- transformations in the future (science fiction in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe)
- changes in the aesthetic of children's books in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
Please send your application to slavic.worlds.imagination@gmail.com by 1 May 2019. For more information, see: http://www.slavicworldsofimagination.wordpress.com/