Forum for Modern Language Studies

Volume 52, Issue 4 October 2016

Editor-in-Chief
Dr Nicholas Martin

General Editors

Alex Davis
Dr David Evans
Dr Claire Whitehead

About the journal

Forum for Modern Language Studies publishes articles on all aspects of literature, linguistics and culture, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The journal aims to reflect the essential pluralism of research in modern languages …

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The Forum Prize

2017 Forum Prize: The Transnational
A call for entries

The Editors of the Forum for Modern Language Studies invite submissions dealing with any topic pertaining to the theme of The Transnational, understood in its broadest sense.

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2016 Forum Prize winner announced

The winner of the 2016 Forum Prize on the theme of Ecologies is Andreas Malm for his essay:

‘This is the hell that I have heard of’: some dialectical images in fossil fuel fiction

The article is currently in production. On publication, it will be available to read free online.

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Previous winners

Previous winners of the Forum Prize are available free online including:

The Polyglot Vampire: The Politics of Translation in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
by Katy Brundan
Geopoetics of Terror(ism): Spatiality and Visuality in Two ‘Post-9/11’ Novels
by Dana Bönisch

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Recent Special Issues

Co-Constructed Selves: Nineteenth-Century Collaborative Life Writing

The essays in this issue build upon the scholarship of collaborative life-writing and aim to address some areas of neglect by illuminating the conventions, practices and pitfalls of co-authored life narratives.

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Literary Anniversaries: The 15s

Published to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of Forum for Modern Language Studies, this issue examines authors and works that celebrate key anniversaries in ‘the 15s’ including 1915, 1815, and 1615.

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