- The myth of authorship: Cervantes’s fictitious authorship (Mata, 2008) and the Shakespeare authorship question (Bradbeer and Casson, 2015)
- Shakespeare’s and Cervantes’s role in the genealogy of such modern ideas as love and friendship (Donskis, 2008) as well as in the humanist educational revolution;
- The two writers’ concerns overlapping with our understanding of Green politics (Egan, 2006);
- Imitating and imitated: Shakespeare, Cervantes, and the dynamics of literary influence;
- Servants’ resistance (Shin, 2010) in Shakespeare’s and Cervantes’ works as a literary solution to the narrative and ideological problem of ineffectual or tyrannical authority;
- Popular historical and political appropriations of Shakespeare and Cervantes as part of a wider popular culture interest and investment in the Renaissance (Semenza, 2010);
- Shakespeare, Cervantes, and the problem of adaptation: the wide variety of guises under which their work circulates;
- Shakespeare’s wife (Greer, 2008), Cervantes’s daughter, and the ‘problematic’ woman (Gay, 1994) in their life and works;
- The roots of political theory and the discourse of politics in the writings of Shakespeare and Cervantes (Cascardi, 2012).
Deadline for article submission: 1 June 2016. We welcome papers in English, Spanish, French, German, and Romanian. Please send the abstracts (ca 200 words), the full paper (up to 7000 words), as well as a brief biographical note (ca 400 words) to the following addresses: lumi_t@yahoo.com, corneliamacsiniuc@yahoo.com
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We also welcome book-length studies in the field of literature and linguistics, published in 2015, to be reviewed in our journal. Please send the books to the following address: Meridian critic, Facultatea de Litere şi Ştiinţe ale Comunicării, Universitatea „Ştefan cel Mare” Suceava, Str. Universităţii nr. 13, 720229 Suceava, Romania
