CFP Games and Literary Theory
The Digital Games and Literary Theory Conference Series addresses the scope and appeal of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of games and games’ impact on other fields in the Humanities. We are particularly interested in digital game modalities and how these might be seen as reconfiguring and questioning concepts, practices and orthodoxies integral to literary theory (i.e. textuality, subjectivity, authorship, the linguistic turn, the ludic, and the nature of fiction). The conference will also explore the ways in which theoretical discourses in the area of game studies can benefit from critical concerns and concepts developed within the fields of literary and cultural theory, such as undecidability, the trace, the political unconscious, the allegorical and the autopoietic. Likewise the conversation about narrative and games continues to raise questions concerning the nature of concepts such as fiction and the virtual, or indeterminacies across characters, avatars and players.
The organizers of the Second Annual International Conference on Games and Literary Theory, at the University of Amsterdam, invite proposals that focus on issues related, but not limited to, any (or a combination of) the following:
- Textuality in literature and games
- Rethinking fiction after with digital games
- Characters, avatars, players, subjects
- New forms of narrative and games
- Games and the rethinking of culture
- Generic criticism
- Digital games, literariness, and intermediality
- Digital games and authorship and/or focalization
- Reception theory, reader experience, player experience: New phenomenologies for critique
- Gender in games, literature, and theory
- Digital games, literary theory and posthumanism
- Representations of disability in interactive media
- Possible Worlds Theory and games
- Digital games in literature
Please submit abstracts of 250-500 words, with a preliminary list of works to be cited, in Word or PDF, to Joyce Goggin (j.goggin@uva.nl) AND Cameron Kelly (cameron.kelly@student.uva.nl), no later than August 31, 2014. All submitted abstracts are subject to a peer review process. A full paper draft must be submitted by October 24, 2014. Papers will be made available to participants on the conference website.