Call for Papers. Revolutionary Leaves: The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski

[Sascha Pöhlmann]

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Call for papers

Revolutionary Leaves: The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski
Conference organized by Junior Year in Munich and the Amerika-Institut of
Ludwig-Maximilians-University
May 20-21, 2011

This two-day event marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of /Only Revolutions/,
Mark Z. Danielewski’s second novel. Danielewski was already hailed as one the most
innovative and exciting writers of experimental fiction after his debut /House of Leaves/
was published in 2000, and Only Revolutions - as well as his 2005 novella /The Fifty Year
Sword/ - impressively confirmed this assessment. Danielewski is a favourite of literary
critics as well as of very devoted fans around the globe, but so far no academic
conference has yet been devoted exclusively to his works. /Revolutionary Leaves/ aims to
provide precisely such a forum for discussion without setting the papers any topical
limits so as to do justice to the wide-ranging scope of Danielewski’s texts and the
complexity of their contexts. Besides the academic section, the conference will also
include a discussion and workshop with Gerhard Falkner, the German translator of /Only
Revolutions/.

We invite scholars of all fields to submit proposals of no more than 300 words by November
1, 2010. A preliminary program will be available by the end of November 2010.

Each speaker will have 25 minutes for his or her paper, plus 10 minutes of discussion; we
aim to collect the essays for publication soon after the conference.

The conference is open to the public. There is no conference fee.

Contact: E-Mail schicken an poehlmann at lmu.de poehlmann at lmu.de (Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann)
Website: http://www.amerikanistik.uni-muenchen.de/MZD


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Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Schellingstraße 3 /VG
Zimmer 210
80799 München
Tel.: 0049 89 2180 5820
www.amerikanistik.uni-muenchen.de