Dear Madams and Sirs,
we would like to invite you to contribute to the 1/2022 thematic issue of "Colloquia Litteraria" entitled:

Roads to Neverland. Fantasy literature and the fantastic in literature

Today, fantasy and science fiction are extremely catchy and widely read genres, which are characterized by a certain peculiar divergence in reception. Stanisław Lem describes science fiction (but the same features can also be ascribed to fantasy literature, of course) as a sociocultural genre, whose most important elements are the readers (the silent majority and active groups of amateurs who form the so-called fandom) and the producers of science fiction (authors, reviewers and publishers). The author of Solaris sees the genre as belonging to, as he puts it, "two kingdoms": the upper (mainstream, mainstream literature) and the lower (that is, mass-market, commercial literature). This dual pedigree, combined with the rigid laws of economics, make it impossible to use a proper critical filter which would separate valuable works from trivialized ones. It seems, therefore, that fantasy, especially in today's heavily transmedia age, is a great field for research. We would like to invite you to publish in the issue of our journal, which will be devoted to widely understood fantasy literature.

The managing editors are: dr Łukasz Kucharczyk and lic. Piotr Góral.
Deadline for the submission of texts: June 30, 2022.

We propose to consider the following issues present in literature:
1. history of fantasy literature
2) Contemporary games with the tradition of literature of fantasy
3) Mainstream and fantasy literature
4) Not only Lem and Sapkowski - other, less popular authors of fantasy literature
5. horror and gothicism in fantasy
6 Magical realism
7. fantasy literature and fine arts
8) Fantasy literature and screen adaptations and egranisations
9. fantasy literature and comic books. 10.
10. carnality in fantasy literature
11. religion in fantasy literature
12) literary criticism of fantasy
Utopias, dystopias and allotopias
14) Post-apocalypticism
15. the theory of fantasy literature
"Colloquia Litteraria" is an academic journal, a semi-annual journal of literary studies, associated with the Faculty of Humanities at UKSW. They have been published since 2006 in the form of thematic issues devoted to various fields of literary studies and interdisciplinary issues. They are indexed in: BazHum, CEJSH - The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, IC Journals Master List, PBN - Polish Scientific Bibliography. The periodical received 20 points on the ministerial list of scored journals. Thanks to the subsidy from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (in the framework of the module "Dissemination of Science") five special issues containing archival articles of "CL" translated into English were published.
We are waiting for the texts until June 30, 2022, and earlier, until March 30, 2021, we ask you to send the subject of the article and its formulation (about 1000 characters) in draft form.
Information about the editorial requirements and additional elements for submitted articles to "Colloquia Litteraria" can be found on our website:
www.czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl
Please send submissions to the address of the editorial secretary - the undersigned Dr. Łukasz Kucharczyk:
l.kucharczyk@uksw.edu.pl

phd Lukasz Kucharczyk
lic. Piotr Góral