Call for Papers: Journal of Literary Onomastics Special Issue

http://www.americannamesociety.org/call-for-papers-journal-of-literary-onomastics-special-issue/

Call for Submissions: Journal of Literary Onomastics 5 (2016)
(a special issue on place and place-names in the early Insular world)

The deeply rooted importance of landscape, place, and place-names is a shared characteristic throughout the Insular cultures of the early Middle Ages, ranging from the material to the literary. From examinations of the early Irish dindshenchas tradition to recent archaeological investigations into the role of landscape in socio-political structures, the study of place has begun to receive more critical attention. We seek papers that treat the issue of landscape in the early Insular world from a variety of methodologies and approaches for a volume that will appear as a special issue of the Journal of Literary Onomastics (peer-reviewed).

Abstracts of 250 to 500 words should be sent to either Bryan Carella (bcarella@assumption.edu) 

or Joey McMullen (mcmull@fas.harvard.edu) no later than July 7, 2015.

Accepted articles should be approximately 6,000 to 8,000 words in length (including notes) and must be received no later than January 4, 2016.

Current Issue of the Journal of Literary Onomastics: Volume 3, Issue 1 (2014)

Articles

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Caer Brythwch and Brythach and Nerthach in 'Culhwch and Olwen'
Andrew Breeze

Breeze, Andrew (2014) "Caer Brythwch and Brythach and Nerthach in 'Culhwch and Olwen',"Journal of Literary Onomastics: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1. 
Available at: http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/jlo/vol3/iss1/1

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Naming Practices in J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages
Wendy Baker et al.

Baker et al., Wendy (2014) "Naming Practices in J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages," Journal of Literary Onomastics: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 2. 
Available at:  http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/jlo/vol3/iss1/2

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An Onomastic Approach to 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle': David Wroblewski’s Transformation of Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet'
Marie Nelson

Nelson, Marie (2014) "An Onomastic Approach to 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle': David Wroblewski’s Transformation of Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet'," Journal of Literary Onomastics: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 3. 
Available at: http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/jlo/vol3/iss1/3

Wilhelm Nicolaisen Prize in Literary Onomastics

Beginning in 2013, the The Journal of Literary Onomastics will award the Wilhelm Nicolaisen Prize in Literary Onomastics to the author of the best essay of each volume. 

The prize consists of a cash award of $150 to be given to the author(s). 

The prize honors Wilhelm Nicolaisen, Distinguished Professor of English and Folklore (Emeritus) at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and now Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. Throughout his career, Professor Nicolaisen has made major contributions to scholarship in literary onomastics and was a frequent contributor to Literary Onomastics Studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._F._H._Nicolaisen

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/staff/details.php?id=w.nicolaisen

JOURNAL OF LITERARY ONOMASTICS

Today I have a honour to present a new website of the 

JOURNAL OF LITERARY ONOMASTICS:

http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/jlo/

The Journal of Literary Onomastics is the only scholarly periodical devoted to the study of names in literary texts (with "literary" defined as broadly as possible).

Their focus is on literatures in the languages of Western and Central Europe of any period and any national origin.

They are an affiliate publication of the American Name Society.