Publication - An International Literary Journal (LLILJ ) - (Spring issue 2014)

Lapis Lazuli- An International Literary Journal (LLILJ )

(Spring issue 2014)

Lapis Lazuli- An International Literary Journal (LLILJ ) is going to publish a Special Issue on LITERARY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO TEXTS.  We encourage authors to submit original scholarly and innovative research papers on the following concept note:

Theory, since its advent, has bedazzled and bewildered many scholars and beginners alike. Traversing the jargon-ridden illuminated territories of Theory remains the eternal quest of every researcher worth his/her merit in the contemporary era. According to Peter Barry, while the 1980′s was thought to be the ‘moment’ of Theory, generating a barrage of books like After Theory, Post Theory and so on in the 1990′s, Theory has proliferated far and beyond from its roots with sustained explorations in the constantly overlapping manifestations of Theory in Inter-disciplinary studies. Prafulla C. Kar talks of how Theory wound its way through the radical period of the 60′s and 70′s and went on to occupy a distinguished niche in the academia in the 80′s and 90′s. thereafter, the flow of Theory seemed to initiate a new kind of dialogue on various issues which had once held the sway in literary and cultural studies, notes Kar.

It can be claimed beyond any scope of argument that literary theory has irrevocably transformed the way in which we produce, distribute and consume literature. Raman Seldon makes a significant observation in this context where he says that while the radical outburst of critical theory has been given a reactionary and philistine response apropos the open challenge of new ideas that it ushers in and at the same time, constructive and genuine engagements with theory have sprung forth in trying to negotiate the question of how to best assimilate and make use of especially such theories as are difficult to comprehend and complex to apply.

Pramod K. Nayar defines literary theory as organized, systematized analysis of literary texts, the institution of Literature and a reflection on the interpretative strategies ‘applied’ to these texts; and cultural theory as moving beyond literary texts studying art forms, films, the super hero comic book, sports, fashion etc– all of which are cultural practices including of course, Literature.

It is from this premise that we invite papers for the Spring issue 2014 of Lapis Lazuli with special emphasis on LITERARY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO TEXTS.  Some of the major theoretical movements and schools of thought could be as under-

• Structuralism
• Post-structuralism
• Deconstuction
• Post-modernism
• Psychoanalytic Criticism
• Feminist Criticism
• Marxist Criticism
• New Historicism
• Cultural Materialism
• Queer Theory
• Post-Feminist Criticism
• Post-colonial Studies
• Critical Race Studies
• Ecocriticism
• Gynocriticism
• Technocriticism.

Contact e-mail: lapislazulijournal@gmail.com

Guest Editor- Khem Raj Sharma
Dept. of English & European Languages
The Central University of Himachal Pradesh

Please visit http://www.pintersociety.com for submission guidelines.

SPRING ISSUE of Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ) the last date for submission is 28 Feb, 2014.