Locating the Gothic - Call For Papers

Conference Call for Papers: 'Locating the Gothic'

Mary Immaculate College and Limerick School of Art and Design

October 22-25, 2014

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The Gothic is a mode that is intimately connected to location. Sites and spaces both define and demarcate the limits of Gothic aesthetics and have shaped the way varieties of the Gothic have developed over time. From hazy moors and dense forests, to urban labyrinths, contemporary cyberscapes and postmodern dystopias, the Gothic has traversed many varied landscapes, both internal and external, historic and contemporary, from which fearful and disturbing atmospheres emerge. Psycho-geographical underpinnings in the Gothic are often the basis for key Gothic experiences such as the sublime and the uncanny. The correlations between space and identity, site and narrative, are central to this and evoke new and interesting approaches to Gothic art, literature, and culture. Thus, we seek to engage with the notion of location as it underpins the literary, artistic, and physical formations of Gothic, and as it may allow us to ‘locate’ the Gothic, or versions of the same in artistic, critical and cultural terms. We are particularly interested in papers which approach alternative forms of Gothic spatiality, particularly those which discuss the Gothic in contemporary art and media.

Proposals should be e-mailed to Maria Beville (mariabeville@gmail.com and Tracy Fahey (tracy.fahey@lit.ie) by 1st May 2014.

Panels/Papers

Themes suggested (but not limited to) the following;

Urban Gothic

Rural Gothic

Regional Gothic/ National Gothic

Gothic Utopias/ Dystopias/ Heterotopias

Spatially based contexts of Gothic (ie; mythology, folklore, oral traditions)

Colonial/Postcolonial/ Transcultural Gothic

Dramatic spaces

Gothic places and spaces

Gothic and Architecture

Cartography and the Gothic

Spatial structures of Gothic

CyberGothic/ Gothic and multimedia/digital media

Limits and boundaries in the Gothic

The Gothic and Domestic space

Locating the Gothic in genre

Locating the Gothic in culture