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Owen Aldridge Prize Competition
Comparative Literature Studies
announces that it will publish an annual prize-paper written by a graduate
student. The competition is named in honor of A. Owen Aldridge, founder
of CLS. The purpose of this competition is to encourage and
recognize excellence in scholarship among graduate students and to reward
the highest achievement by publication. This project is sponsored
by CLS in cooperation with the American
Comparative Literature Association (www.acla.org) and supported by
the Department of Comparative Literature
at Pennsylvania State University. The award carries a monetary prize as
well.
Guidelines:
1. Any graduate student currently
enrolled in an M.A. or Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature in the U.S.
may submit one paper annually.
2. Papers may be on any Comparative
topic. They should be scholarly articles--on literary research, theory,
criticism, and focus on more than one national literature--not (for example)
interviews, translations, or editions of texts.
3. Papers should be of normal length
for journal submission. An approximate page length of 15 -20 pages,
typed, double-spaced, is suggested, though somewhat longer papers will
also be considered. Submissions must be in final form: no preliminary
versions or inquiries or proposals are to be sent. Papers
should follow the CLS format for documentation (the "endnote" style
of The MLA Style Manual, 1985 edition), and be written in English.
4. Papers should be prepared for
anonymous evaluation. A separate cover sheet should give the paper's
title, author's name, author's academic address, and the statement "The
student named above is presently enrolled in a program of study leading
to a graduate degree in Comparative Literature," signed by the chair of
the student's graduate department or program. The first page of the paper
itself should include the title of the work, but not the author's name.
5. Papers must be submitted
in 4 (four) copies (xerox copies will work well).
6. The winning paper must conform
to CLS standards and will be copy-edited and subject to the same
editorial recommendations as other CLS materials. The intention
of CLS is to publish the winning paper within 12 months. A note
will indicate that the paper is the winner of the Aldridge competition
and that it has been selected by the ACLA and CLS.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT
OF SUBMISSIONS:
1 August
Send submissions
to:
Thomas Beebee, Editor-in-Chief
Comparative Literature Studies
311 N Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Past Winners
2006 Winner: "Reading With One Eye, Speaking With One Tongue--On the
Problem of Address in World Literature" by Michael Allen, UC-Berkeley 2005 Winner
[Issue 43.1-2 (2006)]: "To the Letter:
The Material Text as Space of Ajudication in Pope's First Satire" by Katherine
Mannheimer, Yale University
2004 Winner [Issue 42.1 (2005)]: "Captain Cook and the
Discovery of Antarcticaâs Modern Specificity: Towards a Critique of Globalization"
by Mariano Siskind, NYU
2003 Winner [Issue 41.2
(2004)]: "Parasitism and Pale Fire's Camouflage: The King-Bot, the
Crown Jewels, and the Man in the Brown Macintosh" by James Ramey
2000 Winner [Issue 38.2 (2001)]:
"Translating Ruskin: Marcel Proust's Orient of Devotion" by Daniel Simon
1999 Winner [Issue 37.3 (2000)]:
"Nietzche: Utility, Aesthetics, History" by Robert Duran
1998 Winner [Issue 36.3 (1999)]:
"Spectacular Desires: Orpheus and Pygmalion as Aesthetic Paradigms in Petrarch's
Rime
sparse" by Therese Migraine-George, University of Colorado
1997 Winner [Issue 35.1 (1998)]:
"Allegorical Dismemberment and Rescue in Book III of The Faerie Queene"
by
Mary Frances Fahey
1996 Winner [Issue 33.4 (1996)]:
"Benjamin and Zola Narrative, the Individual and Crowds in an Age of Mass
Production" by Nicholas Rennie, Rutgers University
1995 Winner [Issue 33.1
(1996)]: "Writing China: Legitimacy and Representation 1606-1773" by David
Porter, University of Michigan
1994 Winner [Issue 32.3 (1995)]:
"Enlightenment's Other in Patrick Süskindâs Das Parfum: Adorno
and the Ineffable Utopia of Modern Artâ by Bradley Butterfield, University
of Wisconsin at La-Crosse
1993 Winner [Issue 31.2 (1994)]:
"The Leopardskin of Dao and the Icon of Truth: Natural Birth Versus Mimesis
in Chinese and Western Literary Theories" by Liang Shi, Miami University
1992 Winner [Issue 29.3 (1992)]:
"Deconstruction and Taoism: Comparisons Reconsidered" By Hongchu Fu, Washington
and Lee University
In memoriam
Alfred Owen Aldridge
December 16, 1915 - January 29, 2005
A man of many facets and talents, A. Owen Aldridge will be remembered by
some as a pioneer of colonial American literary studies, by others for
his explorations in East-West literary relations, and by still others as
a former president of the American Comparative Literature Association.
For those of us associated with this journal however, he will forever be
remembered as the founder of Comparative Literature Studies.
Perhaps Owen's many interests were reflected in the different forms
of his name appearing at the top of the CLS masthead from 1963 to 1986:
Alfred Owen Aldridge; A. O. Aldridge; and A. O. Aldridge, as though he
had packed three scholarly lives into the space of one--which may indeed
be true enough. His name has continued at the top since the first issue
of 1987 (26.1), but as editor emeritus. This journal, then, and the Aldridge
Prize for the best comparative essay by a graduate student that is associated
with it, the fruits of his own efforts and genius, memorialize Owen better
than our own poor power to do so. Turn the page, then, to find Owen's name
again in the rubric for this year's Aldridge Prize essay, and indeed in
all the learned prose of this issue. It is perhaps the best memorial an
academic could hope for--the living word.
*At the request of his surviving daughter, those wishing to remember
A. Owen Aldridge may send donations to be used towards the Aldridge Prize,
which pays an honorarium and travel expenses to the ACLA Convention for
prizewinners. Checks should be made payable to "Penn State University"
and sent to the CLS editorial address. (Comparative Literature Studies,
311 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802)
Last updated:
30 August 2006 by
Michelle Toumayants
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