CFP After Shock New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics — Sapienza-Silesia Graduate Forum 2024 (AfterShock 2024)

With this Graduate Forum, we hope to ignite a conversation not only on representations of shock and shocking representations in literature and language, but also on what comes after shock, lingering on responses to shock which search for new forms of response to events that once seemed extreme. What new sensations and responses might contend with shock in the twenty-first century? Recognising the numerous and diverse ways in which shock manifests itself in daily lives, the Organisers of the Graduate Forum of the 37th cycle of the PhD Programme in Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation welcome contributions from both the fields of literary studies and linguistics that revolve around the concept of ‘shock’.