Call for
Papers for SHAW 28: "Shaw and
War."
SHAW is "The Annual of Bernard Shaw
Studies" and is published in hard bound in the Fall.
Below the Guest Editor for Volume 28 describes the sorts of papers she is
looking for.
Deadline is May 15, 2007.
SHAW 28
“Shaw and War”
Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Guest Editor
Perhaps more than any other playwright of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, Bernard Shaw, in many of his controversial dramas, probes the
age-old ambivalence of humanity toward war. Although himself
opposed to war, Shaw could comprehend and brilliantly dramatize society’s love
affair with violence and combat, even as he satirizes this often fatal
liaison. Shaws multivalent ideas on war inform many of his major plays,
including Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, Heartbreak
House, and Saint Joan. These and other Shavian plays dramatize
GBSs commitment to make war on war and his abiding
interest in the subject. The age-old ambivalence of humanity toward war is hard
to comprehend and still more difficult to express. Through his incisive
dramatic forensics, Shaw explores this perplexing paradox and makes us confront
the issue of war, which is both the anathema and apotheosis of humankind.
SHAW 28
will build on the growing body of critical literature that studies Shaw and
war, and the guest editor of that volume invites papers for consideration that
explore Shaws dramatic and non-dramatic writings on
war and human aggression. Of special interest are papers addressing Shaws perspective on war through the lens of peace, gender,
love and romance, and history. The guest editor also welcomes articles on Shaws discussions with his contemporaries about war and
encourages bibliographic essays on Shaw and war. The deadline is May 15, 2007. Please format manuscripts in the accepted
style of SHAW and send to the following address:
Dr. Lagretta Tallent Lenker
Department of English
CPR 107
Questions about the volume may be directed to llenker@admin.usf.edu.