Frame - Journal of Literary Studies

01/08/2024

𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝟯𝟴.𝟭 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀!

We welcome abstract proposals for our 38.1 issue “Page to Planet”! This issue is focused on the connections between literature and sustainability. In this issue, we ask scholars and graduate students from literary studies and other related fields to critically tend to the topic of sustainability: How does literature engage with questions regarding sustainability? Can literature counter and critically examine neoliberal or hegemonic discourses surrounding sustainability? How do creative narratives have the potential to help us imagine sustainable futures and relationships?

Read our full 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 through the link below, and submit your proposal before 6 september 2024.

https://www.frameliteraryjournal.com/submissions/

24/06/2024

𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝟯𝟳.𝟭 '𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝘁: 𝗔 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲' 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄!

We have packed and posted the newest edition of FRAME, our special 40th anniversary issue. We want to thank our wonderful authors for their contributions! And we hope to see you tomorrow at our celebration and launch event at University College Utrecht 🥳

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22/06/2024

On 25 June, we celebrate that 𝙁𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝟰𝟬 and these are our lovely guests!

This year marks 40 years of FRAME and we would like to invite you to our anniversary event and launch party!

During the event, we will host a keynote lecture and panel discussion, with artistic intermezzos by musicians and poets. The keynote, titled “S*x and the Sanskrit Classics: Untranslatability, Code-switching, and S*xed-up Translations,” will be given by Dr. Maddalena Italia. The panel discussion, on celebration and cultural analysis, will feature Dr. Andries Hiskes, Carmijn Gerritsen (RMA Student), and Dewi Kopp (RMA Student). Additionally, we have organised a small fair where bookstores and publishers affiliated with us will display their wares, and where we will sell our own issues as well.

Event Details:
Date: 25 June
Time: 18:30 - 22:00 (doors open at 18:00)
Venue: UCU Auditorium
Address: Kriekenpitplein 1, 3584 EC Utrecht.

We would love for you to join us on this day, connect with fellow literary enthusiasts, and be part of the discussions and activities lined up for the day. There is no entry fee for the event. If you wish to make a donation, we would welcome these. 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙪𝙥 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙞𝙣 𝙗𝙞𝙤 - come and celebrate with us!

19/06/2024

On 25 June, we celebrate that 𝙁𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝟰𝟬 and will be giving the keynote!

This year marks 40 years of FRAME and we would like to invite you to our anniversary event and launch party!

During the event, we will host a keynote lecture and panel discussion, with artistic intermezzos by musicians and poets. The keynote, titled “S*x and the Sanskrit Classics: Untranslatability, Code-switching, and S*xed-up Translations,” will be given by Dr. Maddalena Italia. The panel discussion, on celebration and cultural analysis, will feature Dr. Andries Hiskes, Carmijn Gerritsen (RMA Student), and Dewi Kopp (RMA Student). Additionally, we have organised a small fair where bookstores and publishers affiliated with us will display their wares, and where we will sell our own issues as well.

Event Details:
Date: 25 June
Time: 18:30 - 22:00 (doors open at 18:00)
Venue: UCU Auditorium
Address: Kriekenpitplein 1, 3584 EC Utrecht.

We would love for you to join us on this day, connect with fellow literary enthusiasts, and be part of the discussions and activities lined up for the day. There is no entry fee for the event. If you wish to make a donation, we would welcome these. 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙪𝙥 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙞𝙣 𝙗𝙞𝙤 - come and celebrate with us!

14/06/2024

On 25 June, we celebrate that 𝙁𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝟰𝟬 🥳

This year marks 40 years of FRAME and we would like to invite you to our anniversary event and launch party!

During the event, we will host a keynote lecture and panel discussion, with artistic intermezzos by musicians and poets. The keynote, titled “S*x and the Sanskrit Classics: Untranslatability, Code-switching, and S*xed-up Translations,” will be given by Dr. Maddalena Italia. The panel discussion, on celebration and cultural analysis, will feature Dr. Andries Hiskes, Carmijn Gerritsen (RMA Student), and Dewi Kopp (RMA Student). Additionally, we have organised a small fair where bookstores and publishers affiliated with us will display their wares, and where we will sell our own issues as well.

Event Details:
Date: 25 June
Time: 18:30 - 22:00 (doors open at 18:00)
Venue: UCU Auditorium
Address: Kriekenpitplein 1, 3584 EC Utrecht.

We would love for you to join us on this day, connect with fellow literary enthusiasts, and be part of the discussions and activities lined up for the day. There is no entry fee for the event. If you wish to make a donation, we would welcome these.

𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙪𝙥: https://shorturl.at/GUbie

18/05/2024

𝙁𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝟰𝟬 🥳

This year marks 40 years of FRAME and we would like to invite you to our anniversary event and launch party!

During the event, we will host a keynote lecture and panel discussion, with artistic intermezzos by musicians and poets. The keynote, titled “S*x and the Sanskrit Classics: Untranslatability, Code-switching, and S*xed-up Translations,” will be given by Dr. Maddalena Italia. The panel discussion, on celebration and cultural analysis, will feature Dr. Andries Hiskes, Carmijn Gerritsen (RMA Student), and Dewi Kopp (RMA Student). Additionally, we have organised a small fair where bookstores and publishers affiliated with us will display their wares, and where we will sell our own issues as well.

Event Details:
Date: 25 June
Time: 18:30 - 22:00 (doors open at 18:00)
Venue: UCU Auditorium
Address: Kriekenpitplein 1, 3584 EC Utrecht.

We would love for you to join us on this day, connect with fellow literary enthusiasts, and be part of the discussions and activities lined up for the day. There is no entry fee for the event. If you wish to make a donation, we would welcome these. If you wish to attend, please sign up at the link below - come and celebrate with us!

https://shorturl.at/GUbie

24/02/2024

𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝟯𝟳.𝟮 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀!

We welcome abstract proposals for our 37.2 issue “Between the Lines”! This issue is focused on questions of silence and breaking silence and creative methods of opposing erasures. We invite scholars of literary studies and related fields to read between the lines. How can literature help us reshape knowledge in - and outside of academia? What are the dynamics of emancipatory writing, and how is language itself complicit in oppression? What can literature tell us about processes of marginalisation of places, people, and things, and how can it bring marginalised perspectives to the foreground?

Read our full Call for Papers on our website (link in bio), and submit your proposal before the 1st of April.

22/02/2024

𝟯𝟲.𝟮 '𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝘅' 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄!

Over the break we’ve been busy preparing for our very exciting 40-year anniversary issue, but first we would like to take a moment to remind you again that our 36.2 'Writing S*x' issue is out and available to purchase! We would also like to give a huge thank you to all the authors for their wonderful contributions to this lovely issue - stay tuned as we introduce you to their work!

Visit our website to purchase or subscribe to our journal, in the meantime, happy reading!

03/01/2024

𝙁𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙀 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙧!

FRAME is a small, biannual, student-run journal focused on publishing new and exciting perspectives in the field of literary studies. As FRAME will have its 40th anniversary next year, the next designer gets the exciting opportunity to redesign the journal!

For every issue, the role of designer includes typesetting approximately 6-7 (mostly text-based) articles, creating a new cover design, and implementing the corrections of two proofing rounds. For this, we offer a compensation of €400.

If you are interested in becoming FRAME’s new designer, please send an email with your CV, a motivation letter, and a portfolio to [email protected]

31/12/2023

We are excited to announce that FRAME 36.2 “Writing S*x” is printed and currently being prepared for posting. If you are subscribed to FRAME, keep an eye out for receiving the issue in your mailbox soon!

If you’re not subscribed to FRAME (yet) and would like to order a copy of this beautiful issue please send us an email at [email protected]

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19/12/2023

𝙁𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙀 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨!

FRAME is a biannual, student-run journal focused on publishing new and exciting perspectives in the field of literary studies. As our 36.2 issue, “Writing S*x” is about to come out, this is the perfect moment to join our editorial board to work with us on the upcoming issue!

By joining the editorial board, you get the chance to improve your editing skills and gain experience in the field of literary studies. We work in a small team consisting of graduate students and recent graduates, offering board members the opportunity to be closely involved in every step of the publishing process.

If you are interested in joining our board, please send an email with your CV, a (short) motivation letter and a writing sample to [email protected]

14/12/2023

The final contribution to 35.2 “Sounding Literature” is written by Yuqi Khoo, and titled, “Coffeeshop Discourse: An Exercise in Creative Writing in Search of Meaning”.

According to Yuqi Khoo, academic writing can, at times, lead to more obfuscation than clarity for students, and she attempts to address this problem through the use of creative writing as method. Her experimental approach makes theories accessible by reframing the discussion in a more approachable format. It does so by relating Hans-Georg Gadamer’s theory of sound in “Text and Interpretation” to Fred Moten’s theory in 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬, exploring how these theories generate a definition of Blackness as art. Aside from demonstrating how creative writing can be used with academic rigor, through reinterpreting theories of sound, her choice of alternative epistemology also contributes to the ongoing discourse around how to decolonize academic practice.

12/12/2023

Bringing you another contribution to 35.2 “Sounding Literature” – Marit van de Warenburg’s “For the People Hear Us Singing “Bread and Roses”: The Myth of a Poem Turned Labor Song”.

In this article, van de Warenburg examines the afterlife of the 1911 poem “Bread and Roses,” that is commonly associated with a 1912 factory strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and showcases how a 1974 musical rendition of the poem ‘stuck’ in the cultural memory of (labor) activists. She demonstrates the ways in which the invented story of the song’s creation, alongside its ‘catchy music,’ as well as a range of flexibly applicable values in the song’s lyrics, underpin the poem’s lasting mobilizing power. In doing so, she points to the influence of creation narratives and the elective symbiosis of text and sound as key factors in the production of persistent and influential activist songs.

10/12/2023

Next up from our 35.2 “Sounding Literature” issue is Judith Hendriksma’s article, “Persephone Screams, and We Listen: An Analysis of Sound in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter”.

Hendriksma analyses the thematic interactions with sound, dialogue, and the metapoetics of performance in the myth of the r**e of Persephone as recounted in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. A product of the ancient Greek oral tradition, this text was meant to be performed, which is demonstrated in the stylistic as well as thematic aspects of the Hymn. However, Hendriksma argues that the use of sound as a narrative vehicle conveys the emotional impact of Persephone’s story to a modern reading audience as well. Her article thus seeks to demonstrate how sound, silence, and speech are employed in the Hymn to generate a visceral reading experience of Persephone’s abduction.

07/12/2023

More highlights from 35.2 “Sounding Literature”: Florien Kijlstra’s contribution, “How Beale Street Talks and Whispers: The Political Soundscapes of James Baldwin’s Novel”.

Kijlstra critically applies Angela Leighton’s sonic framework – Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature (2018) – to her analysis of Jame’s Baldwin’s 1974 novel, 𝘐𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬. Through this framework, she explores how Baldwin uses sound to compose a socio-political soundscape of racist control and Black resistance. Contrary to what Leighton’s suggestive side-lining of Black writing as mainly voice-based might suggest, Baldwin’s work showcases how sound within Black writing can break from homogenizing and restrictive narratives of Black identity construction, endorsed by quiet neglect and a hyperfocus on jazz, blues, and spoken word as the main sonic vehicles of Black expression. Baldwin’s text illustrates sound’s vast and powerful discursive possibilities in depicting Black identity construction and in conveying the complexities of the Black community’s marginalized condition in the United States of the 1970s.

05/12/2023

Another contribution from 35.2 “Sounding Literature” – Gerlov van Engelenhoven’s “Powerful Silence as a Decolonizing Writing Strategy in Maria Dermoût’s 𝘋𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘮”.

In his article, van Engelenhoven analyses Maria Dermoût’s short story 𝘋𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘮 (“The Jewelled Hair Comb”), a literary retelling of an anticolonial revolt that took place in the Dutch East Indies in 1817. He argues that Dermoût’s use of silence in this story is a decolonizing writing strategy used to disrupt the authority attached to the colonial voices that have shaped the current-day collective memory of this event. By finding ways to replace dominant historical voices with forms of indeterminate silence, Dermoût rewrites history not by forcing her own voice upon it, but instead by granting it silence, which allows for the anti-colonial resistance to be remembered differently. This article thus offers a critical reassessment of the logocentrism evident in much cultural theory and activism, in which ‘voice’ is reduced to a metaphor for empowerment and ‘silence’ to its negative counterpart, indicating powerlessness. Van Engelenhoven’s reading of Dermoût’s work shows how silence itself can be powerful.

29/11/2023

to FRAME 35.2! With our next issue on the way, we would like to share with you the amazing contributions to another one of our previous issues - 35.2 “Sounding Literature”.

First up is Ben de Bruyn’s article, “Bad Vibrations: Tone and Translation in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺”.

De Bruyn’s article focuses on Laura Jean McKay’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 (2020), a prize-winning novel that responds to the interlocking crises of the Anthropocene and the Phonocene by reworking the traditional animal fable and the motif of the speaking animal. Drawing on the work of Vinciane Despret and Rebecca Walkowitz, his analysis highlights three interconnected aspects of the novel’s complex sonic architecture – the incorporation of fragmentary utterances of traumatized animals, the invitation for readers to participate in utopian acts of interspecies translation, and the way in which it alerts them to the crucial role of tonal cues in uncertain acts of communication.

23/11/2023

𝗦𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝟯𝟲.𝟮!

We are very excited to bring you our next issue 36.2 “Writing S*x” which will be out next month.

This issue invites readers to wander through the multiple literary loci of s*x. To what extent is s*x in its various literary formulations
empowering or subjugating, clean or filthy, taboo or fe**sh, q***r or straight, shameful or pleasurable, vanilla or kink, all or none of the above? We can’t wait to share the wonderful contributions to this upcoming issue with you all!

In the meantime, all previous issues are available to order/browse on our website. If you don’t want to miss out on 36.2 “Writing S*x”, you can subscribe to FRAME and receive a print copy upon publication! Prefer to order an individual (digital or print) copy when the time comes? This can also be done via our website.

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22/11/2023

36.1 | Vlinder Verouden & Anasuya Virmani Interview: Feeling Land Sick with Nikolaj Schultz On a Tuesday afternoon that is slowly bleeding into evening, the April sun is warming our digital faces on a video call with Nikolaj Schultz, PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen and author of the re...

21/11/2023

Our final contribution to 36.1 “Dying Wor(l)ds” is Anne van Buuren’s “Lost for Words: Constructing Human-Nature Relations through Color in 𝘕𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢ä 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥 ”.

Van Buuren is concerned with what she believes to be a failure of both academic and literary language in providing a comprehensible account of the contemporary, environmental crises of the Anthropocene. For this reason, her paper explores alternative, non-linguistic storytelling methods, characteristic of animation, for bringing awareness and understanding of ecological issues to a broader public. She focuses on Hayao Miyazaki’s film 𝘕𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢ä 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥 (1984), in order to investigate how colour, as a visual narrative tool, can provide a powerful medium for portraying the complexity of transcorporeal entanglements, and consequently problematizing the human/non-human binary.

16/11/2023

Today we are looking back to Sarah Mcfarland’s contribution to our “Dying Wor(l)ds” issue - “Nothing Before the Sea Was Real”: The Dying World of John Lanchester’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭”.

Mcfarland’s essay argues that John Lanchester’s novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭 can provide empathetic intelligibility to what might otherwise be an inscrutable future by analysing crucial aspects of its dying world that resist the exhausted literary conventions found in much post-apocalyptic climate fiction. According to Mcfarland, these conventions are transformed in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭 to emphasize shared humanity, q***r futurity, greater inclusivity, and an uncertain, circuitous climate-changed ending. Her work sheds light on how 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭’s vivid literary experiences can help shape readers’ perceptions toward imagining more ethical presents and alternative futures, making an abstraction like ‘climate emergency’ imaginable, knowable, and actionable.

14/11/2023

Next up from our “Dying Wor(l)ds” issue is Sari Kivistö’s article, “Imagining Lost Literature—Some Preliminary Considerations on Literary Extinction”.

Kivistö’s paper examines how textual losses function as a creative space for reimagining the literary-historical past and promoting textual endurance. Research focused on book history has come up with new tools for studying destroyed books,
but this article devises an alternative approach that investigates how textual losses invite fictitious supplements and creative rewritings. By focusing on three modes of textual loss—poetic fragments, intentionally constructed gaps, and extinct genres—her work demonstrates how authors such as Ezra Pound have creatively engaged with literary forms of lostness. Her paper suggests that much more work can be done on conceiving silences, losses, gaps and deaths within the realm of literature.

09/11/2023

𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝟯𝟳.𝟭: 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱!

FRAME is turning 40 in 2024 and we are happy to announce that we have extended our deadline for submissions until the 24th November!

For our anniversary issue, we welcome abstract proposals for 37.1: ‘’Get Lit: A Celebration Issue’’. As its title suggests, the next issue will engage with the many forms, rituals, and emotions of celebrating and commemorating. How do literary texts (de)construct or reinforce what we deem celebratory? What perspectives do we perpetuate with the traditions and rituals we uphold and write about?

Read our full Call for Papers via our website. If you are interested, please submit a proposal of max. 500 words by November 24th. We look forward to reading your submissions!

07/11/2023

While we are busy preparing for our next publication, we would like to take some time to look back at the wonderful article contributions to some of our previous issues. In case you missed it: we are happy to introduce the authors from FRAME 36.1 “Dying Word(l)s”!

In "'𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦 𝘞𝘺 Ó𝘧𝘬𝘯𝘺𝘱𝘵': The Erosion of Frisian Culture in Contemporary Flood Fiction”, Kelly van der Meulen situates the Frisian novel Û𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 (2009) by Koos Tiemersma in the Dutch cultural narrative of 𝘥𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘫𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, wherein flood history is united with national pride and loss. Her incredible analysis highlights how the novel frames its narrative to build upon readers’ cultural memory, and how it links the flood to the death of Frisian language and culture. Van der Meulen’s article thereby alerts us to the fact that in Frisian, national and international context, the climate crisis truly becomes a crisis of culture, too.

Read the full article by ordering FRAME 36.1 on our website!

01/11/2023

Free for the month of November! Our Interview with Nikolaj Schultz about his publication Land Sickness (2023) is available today in for one month!

In his work, Nikolaj Schultz dives into the literary, sociological as well as emotional landscapes of the Anthropocene. So what might being land sick mean in the context of constant climate emergencies?

Read the entire interview here: https://www.frameliteraryjournal.com/36-1-dying-worlds/36-1-vlinder-verouden-anasuya-virmani/

Prefer print? Order your copy of FRAME 36.1 “Dying Wor(l)ds” on our website!

26/10/2023

Dr. Gerlov van Engelenhoven was interviewed by Universiteit Leiden / Leiden University on , and in . Read the excellent article "Powerful Silence as a Decolonizing Writing Strategy in Maria Dermoût’s De juwelen haarkam" in FRAME 35.2 Sounding Literature.

Get your print version via our website! 📖 frameliteraryjournal.com

We talk too little about silence, thinks university lecturer Gerlov van Engelenhoven. He has been awarded a Veni grant to investigate the role of silence in protest movements. Does silence sometimes really say more than a thousand words?

04/10/2023

𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝟯𝟳.𝟭: 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀!

FRAME is turning 40 in 2024! For our anniversary issue, we welcome abstract proposals for 37.1: ‘’Get Lit: A Celebration Issue’’. As its title suggests, the next issue will engage with the many forms, rituals, and emotions of celebrating and commemorating. How do literary texts (de)construct or reinforce what we deem celebratory? What perspectives do we perpetuate with the traditions and rituals we uphold and write about?

Read our full Call for Papers via www.frameliteraryjournal.com/submissions. If you are interested, please submit a proposal of max. 500 words by November 15th!

22/09/2023

Come visit us at the International Literature Festival Utrecht - ILFU Bookmarket this Sunday! There will be copies of previous issues of for your perusal and for sale, and our team of editors look forward to having some lovely conversations with you. See you soon!

07/07/2023

Our latest issue, FRAME 36.1 “Dying Word(l)s” includes a conversation with Nikolaj Schultz, PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen, about his new 'auto-ethnografictive' publication Land Sickness.

In his work, Nikolaj Schultz dives into the literary, sociological as well as emotional landscapes of the Anthropocene.

In the interview, Nikolaj Schultz elaborates that Land Sickness, a title mobilising a nautical metaphor, is trying to capture the “trembling” of both “the life terrain of the human and that of the earthly conditions of subsistence that we are living off and thus destroying by our very way of being human beings” (92).

To learn more about Nikolaj Schultz’ publication and what being land sick might mean in the context of constant climate emergencies, read the entire interview by ordering FRAME 36.1 on our website: www.frameliteraryjournal.com

Owing to the immediacy of what issue 36.1 discusses, we have made a digital version of the issue available for a discounted €7!

19/06/2023

🌏 We are proud to announce the publication of FRAME 36.1 "Dying Wor(l)ds".

Frame's editorial board wants to thank this issue's fantastic contributors:

Sarah E. McFarland
Sari Kivistö
Kelly van der Meulen
Anne van Buuren
and
Nikolaj Schultz.

Last week, we packed and shipped the issues fresh from the press - if you're a subscriber, keep a look out for the new grey issue which will soon be appearing on your doormat.

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