Partial Answers - Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas

Publications

Volume 10/2
(forthcoming)
June 2012

Volume 10/1
(forthcoming)
January 2012

Volume 9/2: Dickens: Uneasy Pleasures
June 2011

Volume 9/1
January 2011

Volume 8/2: British Women Writers
June 2010

Volume 8/1
January 2010

Volume 7/2: Eyewitness Narratives
June 2009

Volume 7/1
January 2009

Volume 6/2: Narrative Knowing, Living, Telling
June 2008

Volume 6/1
January 2008

Volume 5/2
June 2007

Volume 5/1
January 2007

Volume 4/2: Narrative as a Way of Thinking
June 2006

Volume 4/1
January 2006

Volume 3/2
June 2005

Volume 3/1
January 2005

Volume 2/2
June 2004

Volume 2/1
January 2004

Volume 1/2
June 2003

Volume 1/1
January 2003

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Welcome to Partial Answers Website - ISSN 1565-3668

Partial Answers, winner of the CELJ "Best New Journal of 2004" award, is a semiannual journal sponsored by the School of Literatures of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is devoted to the interdisciplinary study of literature and the history of ideas. It publishes articles that explore the ways in which

literary texts can be perceived both as works of art and as testing grounds for ideas;
literary works participate in the history of ideas, whether understood as a continuous line of development, as a process of inheriting and correcting schemas, or as a sequence of archeological layers;
literary texts negotiate ideological changes;
period concepts and debates impinge on the shape of the literary texts;
the evolution of ideas affects our reading of the literature of the past;
individual texts reflect the changing ideas about literature itself.

Please see editorial information for more details on submissions.

The editorial board will be pleased to consider suggestions concerning books to review.

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Conference in planning: "The Novel and Theories of Love," June 18-20, 2012; see http://partialanswers.huji.ac.il/Call_for_Papers.asp

Recent conferences associated with the journal:

Trauma Testimony Discourse (cf. Partial Answers 7.2)

The Biblical Literary (June 13-15, 2010)

Knowledge and Pain (May 24-26, 2010)

Dickens, Victorian Fiction, Uneasy Pleasures (June 14-18, 2009)

Eyewitness Narratives (November 25-27, 2007)