Call for Submissions

A Special Issue of Jeffers Studies on the narrative poems

in honor of Robert J. Brophy

This year marks the 35^th anniversary of the publication of Robert J. Brophy’s seminal Robinson Jeffers: Myth, Ritual, and Symbol in His Narrative Poems. In honor of this occasion, we seek submissions of full-length, critical articles on Jeffers’s narrative poems.

In his Foreword to Robinson Jeffers: Myth, Ritual and Symbol, William Everson asserted that “Brophy’s work” on the early narratives “is permanent” (xiii). Agreeing with this assessment, while also wanting to test and verify it, we encourage contributors to submit articles on any of Jeffers’s longer poems, especially those examined by Brophy (“Tamar,” “Roan Stallion,” “The Tower Beyond Tragedy,” “Cawdor,” and “At the Birth of an Age”). We are particularly interested in criticism that starts from Brophy’s readings and expands upon, argues with, or reexamines the Myth-Ritual premises of his interpretations. Also, we encourage submissions that take any current approach to a study of Jeffers’s narratives, believing that the manifold approaches to literary criticism in the intervening thirty-five years have much to offer our understanding of those poems that are arguably Jeffers’s major achievement.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed; those articles recommended by our readers will constitute the scholarly section of a special festschrift issue of Jeffers Studies in honor of Professor Brophy.

Please submit complete articles for consideration, following Jeffers Studies guidelines.

Deadline extended:  Please submit articles by June 1, 2008.