For our publication Transfictional and Transgeneric. Lingering Figures and Wandering Genres in 20th and 21st Century Literature, we are now issuing a call for papers. We are seeking proposals for articles from the fields of Romance, Anglophone, Germanophone and Comparative Studies. The language of the articles is English.
We invite proposals for articles on one or more of the following topics

A) Textual and genre relations:
Inter- and transgeneric relations between different textual forms and registers; for example, the lyricism of prose texts or the narrativity of non-prose texts. What are the effects of switching between genres, and how and to what effect are various elements considered typical of one written genre functionalised in another?

B) The movement of fictional characters through time, culture and media:
How and why do fictional characters (both as characters and as narrators) move from one text/film/media and genre to another, as well as from one cultural and/or national context and historical period to another? How do they function differently depending on the cultural context, genre and media form? Do they function as socio-political allegories, embodying different or similar concepts and problems from context to context?

C) Metalepsis and the crossing of medial boundaries:
How are generic and medial boundaries crossed, apart from the question of the persistence of fictional characters? How, for example, do text, film, music or comic interact with one another, and what aesthetic effects result from this interaction? What differences are to be found when we compare, in this respect, modern, post-modern and contemporary texts and the respective artistic and aesthetic strategies that are conveyed in them? What is the function of metalepsis and its various aspects within this paradigm or within literary texts from different periods and cultural backgrounds?

The publication will appear in the series Calliphaea. Literature-Theatre-Film (Rombach Wissenschaft/Nomos). Articles must be submitted by 31 March 2025. Articles must not exceed 41,000 characters (excluding spaces). By the end of May 2025, you will be notified by the editors whether your article will proceed to the next stage of the peer-review process. Publication is planned for the end of 2025.
Please note: By submitting an article, you accept that it will be peer-reviewed and that your article may be returned to you for revision or rejected for publication as part of the peer-review process.

The guidelines for authors can be found at: https://shorturl.at/GFjU4

Submissions should be sent to the email transficionalityconferences@gmail.com