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Issue 2: Metamorphosis

With Guest Essay by Andrew O'Hagan

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Stet Journal Issue 2: Metamorphosis

Issue 2 will present articles from an international pool of postgraduates on the concept of metamorphosis. The issue seeks to consider varying aspects of this theme; submissions might address (although need not to be limited to):

  • Interpretations of the body in performance and/or literature
  • Developments in eco-criticism
  • Representations of gender and sexuality and transformation of the body
  • Changes in representing the past
  • Transformation of the city
  • Transformative journeys; travel writing; migration
  • Questioning borders and boundaries
  • Change through disease and virus
  • Adaptations or moments of transition between media (performance/ manuscript/ print/ digital)
  • Political change or transition
  • Ethnographic readings
  • Metamorphosis of language

We are excited to announce that all submissions from King's College London students will be eligible for The King's College London Graduate English Prize. The KCL Graduate English Prize has been created in conjunction with Stet and will reward the author of the best King's essay with £200.

We invite you to submit articles of between 3,500 - 5,000 words, along with a brief mini-biography to the editors of Issue 2 at stetjournal@kcl.ac.uk no later than Wednesday February 15th 2012. Any queries can also be sent to Stet editors, Issue 2, Chisomo Kalinga (Chisomo.kalinga@kcl.ac.uk) and Sophie Lally (sophie.lally@kcl.ac.uk)


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Please join us this Wednesday (9th May) for the last in the current series of the Abstract. The speaker this week is a KCL alumni and current PhD student at Leeds University, Michael Flexer.

Michael will be leading a discussion group on the topic of: ‘Scrambling Eggs: Hybridity and the Schizo-mimetic Self’.

Michael chose as a motto of this session this quotation from Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus:  ’The body without organs is an egg: it is crisscrossed with axes and thresholds, with latitudes and longitudes and geodesic lines, traversed by gradients marking the transitions and the becomings, the destinations of the subject developing along these particular vectors.’

Please do join us for this last session in the current run – and with us as the convenors. It would be great to see you all there and to celebrate two successful terms of Abstract papers and discussions with a drink afterwards!

As always, Wednesday 6-8 p.m. in the English Department Seminar Room (S2.39), drinks and snacks provided. Hope to see you there!

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