Dossiê Comunicação e Literatura: Narrativas e Experiência Estética
CFP: Communication and Literature Dossier: Narratives and Aesthetic Experience
Submission deadline: August 15, 2026
Review period: August 16 to November 15, 2026
Expected publication date: December 2026
Submission via the journal system: [URL or OJS system]
Call for Papers:
Literary narratives are powerful sources of creativity for the constitution of various contemporary media products. From literature emerge film scripts, audiovisual series, adaptations into comic books, art books, musical productions, and a wide range of aesthetic expressions that traverse different languages and mediums. In this context, this call for papers from Revista Esferas proposes to gather reflections, analyses, and investigations situated at the intersection of Literature, Communication, and the Arts, in dialogue with contemporary cultural practices.
Considering the encounters between genres, languages, media, and supports, it is important to understand Communication as a mediating instance of human experiences, social and gender issues, as well as the political and historical dimensions evoked by classical and contemporary literary works. Thus, the displacements and resignifications of literary texts into other languages — such as cinema, visual arts, music, and digital environments — become relevant objects for academic debate in the field of Communication and the Arts.
This perspective dialogues with Jacques Rancière’s formulation (2000), who affirms in The Politics of Aesthetics that, in the aesthetic regime of the arts, “artistic things are identified by their belonging to a specific regime of the sensible. This sensible, subtracted from its ordinary connections, is inhabited by a heterogeneous power — the power of a thought that has become, itself, strange to itself: a product identical to a non-product, knowledge transformed into non-knowledge, logos identical to pathos, intention of the non-intentional, etc.” (Rancière, 2000, p. 32).
Thus, the return to classical narratives — often understood as enigmas that cross generations — reaffirms the dynamic and mutable character of literary texts. Based on Barthes’ (2015) reflections on the creative desire a work can trigger, it can be said that within each literary text resides the potential for infinite artistic creation. As Italo Calvino (2007) observed, referring to the film version of The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, a novel can, decades later, return to fascinate and seduce new audiences in diverse ways. Authors such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, and João Guimarães Rosa have their works constantly revisited and transformed into audiovisual productions, exhibitions, films, performances, and various other artistic forms — a multiplication of images towards what Rancière (2012) calls the “logical and paradoxical intertwining between the operations of art.”
From a theoretical perspective, the intersection between literature and communication becomes central to the elaboration of thoughts such as those of Ciro Marcondes Filho, who, in his body of work called New Theory of Communication (published between 2000 and 2020), dedicated himself to both ontological and contingent aspects of this relationship. Likewise, Friedrich Kittler presents one of the most original reflections on the communication-literature interface. By investigating German-language literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, Kittler locates in the maternal figure the corporeal media (the mother is warmth and voice) that transmits the fundamental narratives for human formation in the West. Additionally, it is worth mentioning Vilém Flusser, a prolific reader of Kafka and Guimarães Rosa, who asserted that language creates reality; therefore, he saw literature as a privileged part of a historical (and also post-historical) process in which traditional narrative is enmeshed in a complex network of signs, rituals, programs, materiality, immateriality, sacredness, codes, and devices.
Likewise, literature mobilizes discussions that go beyond the pages of books, constituting central epistemological foundations in the field of Communication, as well as in aesthetic formulations. Recent literary productions often not only raise discussions and inspire debates about materiality, modes of circulation, and new (or revisited/reformulated) poetics, but also mobilize different artistic languages already in the development and birth of the work or communicational product. In this context, the “chaos of materialities” is evidenced by the dissolution of boundaries between artistic practices.
Therefore, the dossier Communication and Literature: Narratives and Aesthetic Experience invites researchers from the fields of Communication, Literature, Arts, and related areas to submit articles, essays, and research reports that reflect on the multiple dialogues between literature and communication, investigating how literary and media discourses intersect, are tensioned, and transform within the context of contemporary culture. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that explore both the modes of circulation of literature in the media and the literary uses in communicational practices are especially valued.
Suggested thematic areas:
- Literature in digital media and social networks
- Literary journalism and nonfiction narratives
- Literary adaptations in cinema, radio, television, and streaming
- Epistemological issues at the communication-literature interface
- Self-writing and autobiographies in media contexts
- Biographical, documentary, and autobiographical studies
- Poetics of orality and non-hegemonic communications
- Intermediality and transmedia narratives
- Literature as a form of communicational resistance
- Aesthetics of literature and communication
- Post-literary studies and serialized audiovisual narratives
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