期刊名称：WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
About Us
World Literature Today
World Literature Today brings you the whole world in each bimonthly issue. It has interviews and original poetry and fiction from around the globe, lively essays on writers and regional trends, authors on books that changed their lives, travel writing, a column on children's literature, author profiles, and coverage of the other arts, culture, and politics as it intersects with literature.
History of World Literature Today
Books Abroad was founded in 1927 by a scholar of vision from Oklahoma, Roy Temple House. He devised as the journal's logo a full-rigged ship with the motto "Lux a Peregre" -- "Light from Abroad," or (as we choose to interpret it) "The Light of Discovery." The poetic yet apt image must, however, be coupled with that of a lighthouse which radiates back abroad the light received, for this has also been an essential function of the magazine.
From a modest seedling of thirty-two pages (January 1927), Books Abroad grew to 256 pages by the end of its fiftieth year (Autumn 1976), and that year's cover design reflected the completion of a significant circle. In January 1977, the journal became World Literature Today, reflecting the truly international range that its coverage and reputation had acquired. The journal is now in its 81st year of uninterrupted publication, the second-oldest such literary periodical in the United States, with every intention of continuing its proven mission to serve students, writers, and general readers.
For years, a quotation from Goethe has appeared on our masthead: “These journals, as they reach a wider public, will contribute most effectively to the universal world literature for which we are hoping. There can be no question, however, of nations thinking alike. The aim is simply that they shall grow aware of one another, understand one another, and, even where they may not be able to love, may at least tolerate one another.?Goethe’s words, first published in 1828, remain at the heart of our mission, even—or perhaps especially—in a world that has become increasingly globalized in the 21st century but remains fraught with national, linguistic, and political divisions.
Instructions to Authors
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Editorial Policy. The editors welcome submissions on contemporary literary and cultural topics addressing any geographic region or language area. Our preference is for "essays" in the tradition of clear and lively discussion intended for a broad audience, with a minimum of scholarly apparatus (see "Back to the Essay," WLT, winter 2000, 5-9). To get an idea of the range of our coverage, several recent issues of WLT can be found by following the links from our home page. Examples of our preferred style of writing can be found by perusing the essays by Kirsti Simonsuuri, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o (for “writerly?essays) as well as Gerald Martin, Tom Shippey, and Bogdana Carpenter (for “critical?essays)—click on the hyperlinks to read an online version of each text.
Submissions should be addressed to the editors at the following address:
World Literature Today
630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110
Norman OK 73019-4033
USA
Please allow a minimum of six weeks for evaluation of your submission and for a response concerning acceptance; all texts that pass an initial in-house screening will be sent to at least two outside readers in the field. N.B. We do not generally accept unsolicited poetry or fiction for publication. In terms of creative writing, our general interest, with some exceptions, is in contributions by writers who are born outside the United States and, with poetry in particular, in poetry in translation by writers who write in languages other than English. Unsolicited manuscripts not accepted for publication will be returned if accompanied by sufficient postage.
Length of Prose Texts. Regular articles should have a maximum length of 2,500 words (approximately 10 typewritten, double-spaced pages), unless otherwise directed by the editors. Shorter essays-for the "Currents" and "Travel" sections, for example-should have a maximum length of 2,000 words (approximately 8 typewritten, double-spaced pages), unless otherwise directed by the editors.
Format. Please send an electronic version of the final draft of your document to the editors (ddclark@ou.edu or dsimon@ou.edu) as a fully formatted e-mail attachment. Please use MS Word, WordPerfect, or Word for Mac (in descending order of preference) when composing your text, and please keep formatting to a minimum. Alternatively, a printout of your final text, accompanied by a 3? diskette, may be sent in the mail. Label the disk with your last name, article title, and the type of software used. Only one copy of the text need be submitted.
Text Preparation. In matters of style and formatting, please follow the guidelines in the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., 2003, hereafter CMS) when preparing your document. On-line information about the Chicago Manual can be found at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/. For matters of spelling, we prefer the eleventh edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Double-space throughout the text and leave the right margin unjustified (ragged). Number all pages, and leave 1" margins at the top, bottom, and sides of each page for editorial markings. Place the article title at the top of the first page, then place your name on a separate line. Brief epigraphs may be used and should be placed at the right-hand margin preceding the text. Dedications may not be used. Your affiliation or place of residence should follow the concluding line of the text and be placed at the right-hand margin, underlined. Following your affiliation, please add two or three sentences about yourself and your current projects.
Titles and Names. The title of a published work should be given in the original language upon first reference in your article, followed by a parenthetical English translation, either your own or a previously published one. Subsequent references should be either all in the original or all in the English version. Original titles from languages not using the Roman alphabet (Russian, Greek, Arabic, etc.) should be rendered in a standard transliteration (Library of Congress, pinyin, etc.). Personal names taken from a language not using the Roman alphabet are treated in one of two ways: the more familiar ones should be given in their standard English form (Gorky and Yuri instead of Gorkij and Iurij); the less familiar ones should be anglicized in spelling (Lunacharsky and Bergholz instead of Lunacarskij and Berggol'c). For more details, see CMS, chapters 8 and 10.
Quotations. Short quotations should be worked into the body of the text; quotations of four lines or more may be set off from the text. Do not use MLA-style parenthetical page citations in running text; they may be used with extracts, however, or placed in an endnote if truly essential. A moderate number of citations from the major European languages may be used, particularly when the illustration involves a linguistic or stylistic point. For long and/or difficult passages in these languages, however, and for quotes from all other languages, please provide an English version only, either your own or a previously published one. When in doubt, follow the guidelines set forth in CMS, chapter 11.
Notes and Bibliographies. Notes should be kept to a bare minimum, particularly avoiding long, digressive comments, the use of ibid., notes giving only a page number, etc. For an excellent discussion on shortening the length and number of citations, see CMS 16.36-46. Essential publishing data, for example, can sometimes be incorporated into the text parenthetically at a book's first mention; it can be omitted thereafter. Footnotes will be converted to endnotes in the published version of your article.
Lists of works cited should follow the guidelines for the humanities ("notes and bibliography") style set forth in CMS, chapters 16 and 17 (see 16.3 and 16.8-18 for an overview of the system, and 16.19-89 plus chapter 17 for more detailed instructions).
Illustrations. Illustrations may be submitted in the following formats: 4x6 or 5x7 black-and-white glossy photographs or 300-600dpi PDF or TIF files; 8x10 color prints or 300-600dpi digital CMYK files (TIF or JPEG preferred). A separate list of captions and credit lines should accompany the illustrations, clearly keyed by number (1, 2, 3, etc.), as well as releases granting WLT permission to reproduce any copyrightable text or illustrations (please specify nonexclusive world English rights for all editions). Guidelines on fair use and copyright can be found in CMS, chapter 4.
Revised May 2005
WLT Review Style Guide
Inquiries. Please inquire about books you would like to review, including as much information (author, title, publisher, publication date, price, and ISBN) as possible. However, do not order review copies directly from publishers in our name; we prefer to do that work and the necessary record-keeping.
Deadlines. Reviews of books published the previous year must be received by 1 September of the current year in order to be published in WLT.
Books sent out for review. If you find a penciled “R?on the first page of a book, we have requested the book from the publisher and are under obligation to review it. If you are unable to meet the deadline please either (1) advise us that we should expect the review for a later deadline or (2) return the book to us, with a brief note of explanation, for reassignment. A book marked “U?(unsolicited) may or may not need to be reviewed. Please advise us as to your decision, even if you deem the book unsuitable for comment.
Length. Our preference is for reviews in the range of 350-400 words; the maximum length is 500 words. Please observe the word limit. Not all reviews received can be published, and overlong reviews will be returned for revision or edited as needed to fit available space.
Submitting reviews. Please submit your review electronically, preferably in the form of a fully formatted e-mail attachment directed to the associate editor, Marla Johnson (mfjohnson@ou.edu). Diskettes are not necessary. If possible, please use MS Word or WordPerfect when typing your review. We also accept hard copies of reviews submitted to our address below or via fax at 405-325-7495.
Format. Below is an example of a WLT review heading:
Alexander Selin. The New Romantic. Richard Cook, tr. Moscow. Glas (Northwestern University Press, distr.). 2003. 158 pages. $17.95. ISBN 5-7172-0064-1
1. Order of data: Author. Title (underline). Editor/translator/compiler/illustrator. Place of publication (both city and state or country, as appropriate). Publisher (and distributor, as appropriate). Year. Number of pages. Price. ISBN (use a period after each item, except the last)
2. Double-space the heading and the entire text of the review.
3. When calculating page numbers, include only those pages that relate to the book proper; do not include advertisements by the author or publisher. Note if the book is illustrated, and note plates by page count.
4. We encourage quotations, but keep them brief and to a minimum of two or three. Quotations from works in languages other than English should include a parenthetical English translation of the cited material.
Tearsheets. Upon publication of your review(s) in WLT, you will receive a clipping or tearsheet of the review several weeks following release of the issue. Unfortunately, we cannot send galley proofs of reviews or complimentary copies of complete issues to reviewers.
Change of address. Please keep in touch even when traveling, and let us know of all changes of address of one month or longer. Thank you for your help and collaboration.
Reviews Editor
World Literature Today
630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110
Norman OK 73019-4033
Main telephone number: 405-325-4531
Website: www.ou.edu/worldlit
Revised August 2006
Editorial Board
WLT Staff World Literature Today
630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110
Norman, OK 73019-4033
Phone: 405 325 4531 Fax: 405 325 7495
Executive Director & Neustadt Professor Robert Con Davis-Undiano Editor in Chief David Draper Clark
Assistant Director & Managing Editor Daniel Simon Book Reviews Editor Marla Johnson
Administrative Assistant Victoria Vaughn Marketing Director Terri D. Stubblefield
Art Director Merleyn Ruth Bell Assistant Editor Michelle Johnson
Circulation & Accounts Specialist Kay Blunck
Executive Director & Neustadt Professor Robert Con Davis-Undiano
rcdavis@ou.edu
Dr. Robert Con Davis-Undiano is Dean of the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma and Executive Director for World Literature Today. RC (as he is called) joined OU’s faculty in 1980, and in 1999 he was named Executive Director of OU’s international magazine World Literature Today and holder of the Neustadt Professorship in Comparative Literature. In 1999, he received a Presidential Professorship, and in 2004 he became the third recipient of the prestigious Sullivant Award for Perceptivity. In 2005, he became Dean of OU’s Honors College. He and his wife Julie have three children.
Editor in Chief
David Draper Clark
ddclark@ou.edu
Assistant Director & Managing Editor
Daniel Simon
dsimon@ou.edu
Daniel joined the WLT staff in 2002, after previous editorial positions at the University of Oklahoma Press and University of Nebraska Press. He received his doctorate in comparative literature—with an emphasis in translation studies—from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2000 and has taught courses in magazine editing and publishing (for OU’s Honors College), comparative literature, modern languages, and English composition. A Nebraska native, Daniel is in obedience training to be a husband, father, and dog owner: learning, from his wife, the true meaning of commitment; from their three young daughters, the true measure of love; and from their three dogs, the true gift of devotion.
Book Reviews Editor
Marla Johnson
mfjohnson@ou.edu
Marla has been a member of the World Literature Today staff for almost eighteen years. She has roots in Nebraska and Iowa, and spent her college years at Oregon State University and the University of Oklahoma. She navigates through the constant stream of book reviews at WLT, along with creating an occasional piece of artwork for the magazine. It has been rumored that a cat lives in her house, or perhaps a dog, possibly a goldfish, or at the very least, something with fuzz on it is growing in the refrigerator. One of her favorite books is Independent People by Halldór Laxness.
Administrative Assistant
Victoria Vaughn
vav@ou.edu
Victoria Vaughn has been the Administrative Assistant/Events Coordinator at World Literature Today since 1993. A native Oklahoman, Vicki enjoys spending time with her friends and family, and her half Chihuahua/half Pomeranian Gracie LuLu.
Marketing Director
Terri D. Stubblefield
tdstubb@ou.edu
Terri Stubblefield, an Oklahoma native, has been the Marketing Director at World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma since August 2001. Terri has more than 20 years experience in marketing and promotions in the private sector, and has been a registered barber for 32 years. She is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and has served on the Full Circle Adult Day Center Board since 2001. She has been married to Joe for 23 years, has a daughter Leslie, a granddaughter Abby, and two black Labradors Hannah and her dog Hank.
Art Director
Merleyn Ruth Bell
merleyn@ou.edu
Merleyn Bell is the art director of World Literature Today magazine. A Norman native and graduate of OU, she has worked at World Literature Today since 2003.
Assistant Editor
Michelle Johnson
lmjohnson@ou.edu
Michelle Johnson provides part-time editorial assistance to WLT while also teaching legal writing and oral advocacy to first year law students. Like most editors, Michelle has a novel she wrote tucked away in a drawer (yes, it's beginning to occur to her it may have a better chance of getting blown away by a tornado than getting published, but it doesn't take up that much room). She collects books, and her husband Mark supports her compulsive bibliophilic shopping habits and needs for extended stays in bookstores worldwide. Michelle fantasizes about living in Manhattan, Maine, Banff, and Ireland and plans creative ways to live in all of these places. Being the well-grounded, practical person she is, Michelle is already making plans for the day Mary Oliver will just happen to be in Norman, Oklahoma, will have dinner in the Johnson home, and of course find the Johnson's huge, furry dog Wrigley the most amiable of canines.
Circulation & Accounts Specialist
Kay Blunck
kblunck@ou.edu
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