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saa täydemmän CfP:n ja lisätietoja. yt sari</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>CfP: International Conference on
<i>Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour<br>
in the Early Modern Period</i> at Frankfurt am Main, September 2025</b></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; line-height: 17pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A mock encomium is a text in verse or in prose which, in a positive manner, pays tribute
to an object that is commonly considered ludicrous or harmful. Most early modern mock encomia are about diseases (e.g. plague, podagra, blindness), human vices (drunkenness, debts; also wicked men and women, like Nero or Julian the Apostate) or insignificant
or harmful animals (fleas, lice, flies, and the like). The spectrum of genres in which ironic praise manifests itself ranges from the panegyric speech or treatise</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> to
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the anti-Petrarchist sonnet, the French contre-blason or the ironical capitolo of the Italian tradition. In Italy, France, and England ironic praises and mock
encomia were often also written in the vernacular.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Until now, only a few of these texts that often fascinate with their originality and humour have been examined more closely. We would like to encourage researchers from
different countries and disciplinary backgrounds to identify and analyze such little-known texts.
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We invite papers that address individ</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ual texts or offer comparative
analyses as well as papers that approach the genre of the mock encomium from a more theoretical perspective. We would further like to encourage you to present texts written by women or to examine aspects of ironic praise in the visual arts.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The conference will take place at the beginning of September 2025 at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The conference will be held in English. The revised papers will be published in the
<i>Intersections</i> series (Brill: Leiden). </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are confident that the conference will be funded by external donors (travel expenses, accommodation).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We kindly ask you to submit a title and a short synopsis of your current ideas on the topic (150–250 words) by 31<sup>st</sup> May 2024. To receive a full call for papers
with text examples and a selected bibliography, please contact us.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 17pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sari Kivistö:
<a href="mailto:sari.kivisto@tuni.fi" id="OWA7b3a194b-7e5e-a3e9-214d-ff5c6e8c5c8e" class="x_OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
sari.kivisto@tuni.fi</a></span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 17pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Katharina-Maria Schön:
<a href="mailto:katharina-maria.schoen@univie.ac.at" id="OWA20b91fb4-b903-9a30-e24a-04b866f2559c" class="x_OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
katharina-maria.schoen@univie.ac.at</a></span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 17pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Robert Seidel:
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robertcseidel@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(117, 123, 128);">Sari Kivistö</span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(117, 123, 128);">Professor of Comparative Literature</span></p>
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