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Archivio di Lettere Italiane: Introduzione | Indice 1-100 | Indice 101-200 | Indice 201-300 | Indice 301-380
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Lawton: Call for Papers[8-2-1996]The Eighth Annual Call for Papers Deadline: March 15, 1996
You are invited to submit a paper on any aspect of Romance Languages, Literatures, and Film: Catalan, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Provençal, and Spanish. Essays are accepted as well in the following areas provided they relate to Romance Languages: Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Literary Theory and Critical Methods, Pedagogy, and Women's Studies. Papers may be in any Romance language or English. Please submit two blind copies of your paper (maximum length 20 double-spaced pages, including notes and bibliography) in the most recent MLA style. Note: Please be advised that it is the policy of the Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures, and Film and of the RLA not to accept work that has already appeared elsewhere or is under consideration elsewhere before the publication of the RLA. Include information on where you can be reached: mailing and e-mail addresses plus home, work and fax numbers. Regrettably, we cannot respond to correspondence that does not include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. For return of manuscripts we must have a large self-addressed, stamped envelope. Abstracts will not be considered One submission per author only All papers will be refereed. Those accepted for presentation at the Conference will be published in the 1995 RLA. You will be notified of acceptance or rejection by May 31, 1996. After notification of acceptance, send one copy on a DS/DD or DS/HD Macintosh-readable computer diskette (preferably Microsoft Word 5.1) as well as a clean hard copy to the Conference Coordinators by August 16, 1996. Any disk not conforming to the requested format may incur a processing fee. Deadline: March 15, 1996 The Lorraine K. Lawton Award Thanks to the generous donations of Lorraine's family and many friends, Purdue University has established the Lorraine K. Lawton Award in her memory. Dr. Lawton received her Ph.D. from Purdue posthumously in December of 1991 in recognition of her proven scholarship as manifested by her publications in English, Italian, and French, and her work in progress on her dissertation: Golden Necklace, Leaden Chain: Socio-Biological Destiny and the Female Artist. A lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve, she died tragically near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on July 10, 1991, as she rushed to care for her soldiers during the Gulf War. This yearly award of $250 is intended to encourage and acknowledge research and writing by and or about women in Italian literature and/or film as presented at the Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures, & Film and/or published in the Romance Languages Annual. Past Winners 1994: Edvige Giunta, Blending "Literary" Discourses: Helen Barolini's Italian/American Narratives and Virginia Picchietti, 'Tornare Indietro Verso L'allegria Del Futuro': Daughterhood and 'Revisionary Mythopoesis' in Dacia Maraini's "Demetra Ritrovata" 1993: Dana E. Stewart, A Matter of Perspective: Optics And Poetics In The Early Italian Love Lyric 1992: Anna Camaiti-Hostert, Potere dell'alterità-alterità del potere: una lettura del libro di Dacia Maraini La Lunga Vita di Marianna Ucria 1991: Cristina Della Coletta, Aldo Palazzeschi. Esordi poetici RLA Medieval Award
An RLA Medieval Award has been established through anonymous donation. The award of $250 will be presented annually for the best medieval paper by a junior scholar (non-tenured faculty member or graduate student). The first RLA Medieval Award will be presented in October 1996.
The Purdue University Conference on Send submissions and inquiries to: French: Jeanette Beer Italian: Ben Lawton Spanish/Portuguese: Patricia Hart Foreign Languages and Literatures Ben Lawton Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures Purdue University
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