[Discussion] CFP: Excess: Rapture & Revolution (8/2/04; journal issue)

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CFP: "Excess: Rapture and Revolution" antiTHESIS

antiTHESIS is a fully-refereed journal of contemporary theory, criticism
and culture, and Australia=92s longest-running interdisciplinary
postgraduate journal. It is produced by postgraduates in the Department
of English with Cultural Studies and Creative Writing at the University
of Melbourne.

The antiTHESIS editorial collective are seeking contributions to volume
15, entitled: "Excess: Rapture and Revolution."

Scholars and creative writers are invited to direct their contribution
to topics such as:

     * bodies and pleasure
     * hedonism, decadence, the sublime
     * the spectacle of excess
     * censorship, discipline and regulation
     * the subjective experience of excess as creative and destructive
     * excess as a thematic and stylistic feature of literary production
     * cultural forms of excess
       (for example, carnival, consumerism, fetishism, and technologies)
     * political revolutions as the scene of real or imagined excess
     * revolutions in the history of ideas (based on the concept of exces=
s)

We are seeking:

     * Articles of up to 6,000 words (excluding endnotes)
     * Fiction and creative non-fiction of up to 3,500 words
     * Poetry of up to 100 lines
     * Visual art works

antiTHESIS uses The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition), endnote
citations. For more information, please consult our website.

Please attach a cover page listing your name, contact details, abstract
and a brief bio-note. Your name, or other forms of identification, must
not appear on the work itself.

Please send submissions as word attachments to
antithesis@adhocalypse.arts.unimelb.edu.au by 2 August 2004. We will
consider and respond to all submissions.

More information is available at
http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/antithesis.