This special issue of Intermediality will question the instigating experience of fables, those primordial and oblique representations, insofar as such an experience engages with: 1) the plasticity of forms: the fable is a matter of dissimulation, of unveiling, of metamorphosis, in short, of the elaboration of figures and the modulation of time; 2) the construction and value of nuanced knowledges—with its “veiled teaching” (Gaillard), the fable always carries a lesson—and, consequently, an epistemological register; 3) the critical potential of a discourse which, while playing on differentials, while masking or “projecting” its views, nonetheless aims at the real and its historical complexities. Proposals could focus on the many poetics of fabulation as well as on the modalities of inscription of the fabular within a larger narrative—of which the fable constitutes only a moment, a fragment. (Intermédialités)
Deadline for submitting a proposal : March 15, 2023
For more information see: Call for papers – no. 43 « Fabulating/Fabuler » – intermédialités (intermedialites.com)