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<p style="text-align:center">Book publication<br></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b>The Aesthetics and Politics of Irony</b></p>
<p style="text-align:left"><b>Organizers</b>: Elsa Alves (University of Copenhagen / CECC) and Ana Dinger (CECC, Catholic University of Portugal)</p>
<p style="text-align:left"><b>CFA</b>: Following on from the 4<sup>th</sup> Graduate Conference in Culture Studies, <i>Irony: framing (post)modernity</i>,
held in January 2014 at the Catholic University of Portugal, we would
like to prompt a reflection on the problem of irony in modern and
contemporary culture.</p>
<p style="text-align:left">After the tragedy of 9/11 in the West and the crisis of socialism in
the East, the overriding ironic tone that had pervaded the 80s and 90s
has begun to withdraw from the aesthetic and socio-political scenes. The
last decades have witnessed an increasing celebration of affects and
emotions, a return of authenticity and the real, and the birth of a “new
sincerity”. This backlash against ironic alienation or “cynical reason”
hopes to replace playfulness, shallowness and negativity for an ethos
of commitment, sensitivity and integrity. Nevertheless, these attempts
could easily turn out to be rhetorical or ironic.</p>
<p style="text-align:left">The present book seeks to address, on one hand, the impulse of and
the resistance to irony in today’s artistic, cultural and political
discourses and practices. On the other hand, given that ironic attitudes
and expressions in late modernity are anticipated in German idealism,
constituting as such a Romantic possibility, we welcome reflections on
modern irony at large.</p>
<p style="text-align:left">Some of the key questions we wish to tackle are: how does irony
become political? Can it build a community? How does it affirm the
subject (e.g. in post-structuralism)? How does it provide a model of
opposition to the status quo or, instead, how does it neutralize
critique? How does it become an aesthetic principle and what are the
strategies that this entails or, instead, how does it perform
deaestheticisation? What kind of relation can the ironic and the tragic
have? Are there historical moments that can be nominated "ironic"<i> </i>(e.g. post-modernity)? What are the post-ironic alternatives?</p>
<p style="text-align:left">In this volume, Michele Cometa (University of Palermo) will address
the theory of irony in Schlegel and Paul de Man, and its potential for
culture analysis, Jorge Fazenda Lourenço (Catholic University of
Portugal) will analyse irony’s political overtones in Jorge de Sena’s
poetry and Philip Auslander (Georgia Institute of Technology) will
discuss irony in the performative arts.</p>
<p style="text-align:left">We invite contributions to be sent to the editors, Elsa Alves & Ana Dinger (<a href="mailto:irony2014@gmail.com" target="_blank">irony2014@gmail.com</a>), until the 1<sup>st</sup> of March 2015.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left"><b>Submissions guideline</b>:</p>
<p style="text-align:left">Authors are encouraged to write an article specifically for the
volume. However, it is also possible to draw on already published work,
adapting this to address the volume theme.</p>
<p style="text-align:left">Articles need to be written in English and language editing is the responsibility of the authors.</p>
<p style="text-align:left">The texts will be selected
according to their relevance regarding the goals set out for the volume,
originality of scope and theoretical framing.</p>
<p style="text-align:left">Articles will need to be max. 20 pages in length, Times New Roman 12, including bibliography. For more information see the <u>style sheet enclosed</u>.<br></p>
<p style="text-align:left">Please attach a short bio-bibliographical text (c. 150 words).</p>
<p style="text-align:left">Deadline for submissions is <b>1<sup>st</sup> of March 2015</b>. The organizers will return their decision by the <b>end of April 2015</b>.</p><p style="text-align:left"><br></p><p style="text-align:left">
<b>For further information: <br>
</b></p><p style="text-align:left"><a href="http://irony2014conference.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://irony2014conference.wordpress.com/</a></p><p style="text-align:left"><a href="http://cecc.fch.lisboa.ucp.pt/en/" target="_blank">http://cecc.fch.lisboa.ucp.pt/en/</a></p>
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