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Call for Casebook Editors and Contributors

Studies in Modern and Contemporary Fiction:
Web-Based Casebooks
Danielle Dutton, Series Editor

Modern and contemporary novels that participate in the tradition of formal and stylistic experimentation seek to challenge readers. But sometimes their challenges can be overwhelming for readers, especially those whose reading experiences have been shaped by the tenets of literary realism. The casebooks here serve as a resource for readers-teachers and students, especially-who desire some guidance in engaging these novels. Each casebook contains an introduction by the casebook editor which offers an overview of the novel, its place in the author's oeuvre, and its critical reception. The other four essays offer different approaches to the novel and different interpretive strategies with which to understand it. There is also a bibliography of the most important critical work on the novel. The purpose of this series is to open up avenues for exploring each novel and to open up a dialogue of ideas among our contributors and each new reader. In order to view PDFs online, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not already have it installed, you can download your FREE copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader from the official Adobe web site.

Call for Casebook Editors and Contributors

Dalkey Archive Press is seeking editors and contributors for its new web-based casebook series: Studies in Modern and Contemporary Fiction. Each casebook will focus on one novel. It will include an overview essay on the book (its place in the author's oeuvre; its critical reception; the scholarly conversations about it) and four other essays looking at specific dimensions of the book. (Recommended length of essays: 20-25 double-spaced pages.) Also included will be a selected bibliography of critical works on the book. The anticipated audience includes professors teaching the book and graduate and undergraduate students studying it.

All casebooks will be refereed. Successful casebooks will be published on the Dalkey Archive Press website.

The duties of the casebook editor will be to write the overview essay and develop the critical bibliography, to coordinate the other essays, especially avoiding overlapping among them, and to coordinate with the series editor.

The following are the books for which we are seeking casebook editors and contributors:
  • Kangaroo by Yuz Aleshkovsky
  • Locos and Chromos by Felipe Alfau
  • Trilogy (North, Castle to Castle, Rigadoon) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  • A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family by Peter Dimock
  • Island People by Coleman Dowell
  • The Jade Cabinet by Rikki Ducornet
  • Lyric of the Circle Heart by William Eastlake
  • A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki
  • Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima
  • The Queen of the Prisons of Greece by Osman Lins
  • Take Five by D. Keith Mano
  • Teitlebaum's Window by Wallace Markfield
  • The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser
  • Impossible Object and Accident by Nicholas Mosely
  • The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien
  • Palinuro of Mexico by Fernando del Paso
  • Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau
  • Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, Mulligan Stew and Aberration of Starlight by Gilbert Sorrentino
  • Annihilation by Piotr Szewc
Applicants should send a CV and a brief writing sample.

Send applications to:
Danielle Dutton
Dalkey Archive Press
University of Illinois
605 E. Springfield Avenue, MC-475
Champaign, IL 61820

Inquiries: danielle@dalkeyarchive.com