ER(R)GO is an international learned journal dedicated to problems of literary and cultural theory. Inspired by the intellectual achievement of the interdisciplinary seminar group functioning at the University of Silesia in Katowice under the same name, it fosters theoretical reflection upon essential problems of culture and the human within it. Er(r)go is a periodical focusing primarily upon the reflection upon the products of contemporary culture, including popular culture, with particular emphasis on critical theory and related problems. The areas of central importance to the journal include the analysis of phenomena impacting the shape and functioning of culture, the study of literary works, film, works of fine art and other products of culture, the insights into literary and cultural processes and factors conditioning their development, analyses of context determining such processes, as well as reflection upon the methodology of literary and cultural studies, analyses of tendencies manifest in the culture of today and their intellectual foundations, transformations of theoretical and methodological paradigms, studies in ethical and axiological frames within which literary and cultural currents and phenomena related thereto are located, literary-theoretical and culture studies oriented syntheses, as well as studies focusing upon the mutual relations between literature and philosophy as well as other disciplines within humanities and beyond. While Er(r)go puts particular emphasis on literary theoretical investigations, the important focus of the journal is upon the perceptions of the literary texts in relation to con/texts and pancultural processes. The mission of the journal is to bridge the areas traditionally covered by literary-critical and literary-theoretical periodicals and those profiled towards culture studies, and thereby to open a wide space of dialog in which these two broad disciplines can meet. The overall tenor of the journal should be described as interdisciplinary.
The Journal is financed by the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. The journal does not charge any fees for publishing articles and is available free of charge in the Open Access Gold formula.
Our journal has been granted 100 points as a result of the parametric evaluation carried out by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education in 2021. As of 2016, Er(r)go is also listed in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH+) as well as in the Index Copernicus Journal Master List with the impact factor ICV 2023 = 116.12. Since 2020, it is also indexed in the Elseviere Scopus database and in the EBSCO database.
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Manuscript selection procedure: the timeframe
1) Texts for Spring/Summer issues must be submitted by March 1st of the previous calendar year; texts for Fall/Winter issues must be submitted by Sept.15th of the previous calendar year.
2) The Author receives an automatic confirmation upon his or her submission of their text to the Er(r)go OJS system;
3) Within a month of the closing of the Call for Papers, the Author receives the Editors' decision on the qualification/rejection of the text for the peer-reference stage for a given issue and/or a suggestion go submit the text to a different thematic issue of the journal / different section of the journal;
4) Within three months of the preliminary qualification the Author receives two peer references including possible suggestions for revisions;
5) the qualified and positively evaluated text after corrections and revisions is published within 18 months of the closing of the Call for Papers, unless it has been individually negotiated with the Author that the text should be considered for a different issue of the journal.
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Note: The Editors warmly encourage Authors to contribute texts both directly related to the announced theme of the issue and those conforming to the overall thematic orientation of the journal (for the "Varia" section). Simultaneously, we wish to remind the Contributors that the condition of the admission of the text for subsequent stages of the editorial process is meeting the journal's requirements concerning the completeness of metadata: please fill in all of the fields of your submission form and attach the scans of the applicable licenses and permissions to use copyrighted material. The character count of a research article in Er(r)go is 25 to maximum 40 thousand characters including spaces. Submitting his or her contributions to Er(r)go, the Author consents to licensing his or her work under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Er(r)go is a periodical focusing primarily upon the reflection upon the products of contemporary culture, including popular culture, with particular emphasis on critical theory and related problems. The areas of central importance to the journal include the analysis of phenomena impacting the shape and functioning of culture, the study of literary works, film, works of fine art and other products of culture, the insights into literary and cultural processes and factors conditioning their development, analyses of context determining such processes, as well as reflection upon the methodology of literary and cultural studies, analyses of tendencies manifest in the culture of today and their intellectual foundations, transformations of theoretical and methodological paradigms, studies in ethical and axiological frames within which literary and cultural currents and phenomena related thereto are located, literary-theoretical and culture studies oriented syntheses, as well as studies focusing upon the mutual relations between literature and philosophy as well as other disciplines within humanities and beyond. While Er(r)go puts particular emphasis on literary theoretical investigations, the important focus of the journal is upon the perceptions of the literary texts in relation to con/texts and pancultural processes. The mission of the journal is to bridge the areas traditionally covered by literary-critical and literary-theoretical periodicals and those profiled towards culture studies, and thereby to open a wide space of dialog in which these two broad disciplines can meet. The overall tenor of the journal should be described as interdisciplinary.
The Readership
Representatives of international academic humanities, arts, and letters: academics, researchers, Ph.D. candidates, students, and - above all - specialists in literary and cultural theory, comparative studies, sociology, anthropology and philosophy (especially those focusing upon its affinities with other disciplines within literary studies, social sciences, and humanities), and a wide group of researchers involved in interdisciplinary studies, as well as non-academic readers to whom matters discussed on the pages of Er(r)go are of importance.
Sections
The main sections of the journal are: "Studies and Essays" (dedicated to problems specified above) and "Varia - Follow-ups - Anticipations" (presenting texts thematically linked to the research areas upon which previous issues focused, or to which future issues will be dedicated, as well as texts of particular value, albeit unrelated to the overarching theme of the volume). These two central sections featuring in each issue are then supplemented by optional sections, constructed dynamically to reinforce the character of each particular, thematically oriented, issue. These supplementary sections are: "Commentaries and debates," containing discussions and texts polemically responding to stances presented by other authors within or outside the issue, as well as "Reviews," critical "Notes on books," and "Translations" (usually presenting one or more texts written originally in a language other than Polish or English, and made available to the Polish or Anglophone academic audience in translation).
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
Er(r)go follows the principles of publication ethics and publication malpractice statement mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011, download PDF).
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Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
ER(R)GO is an international learned journal dedicated to problems of literary and cultural theory. Inspired by the intellectual achievement of the interdisciplinary seminar group functioning at the University of Silesia in Katowice under the same name in the 1980, it fosters theoretical reflection upon essential problems of culture and the human within it. The core of the group were the founders of what has informally come to be recognized as the Silesian School of Theory: Wojciech Kalaga, Emanuel Prower, Tadeusz Rachwał, Tadeusz Sławek and Andrzej Wicher. The periodical, called into existence by Wojciech Kalaga, the then Director of the Institute of British and American Culture and Literature (later: Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, today: Institute of Literary Studies), was launched in the year 2000. Among the Authers and Authors of the texts published in Er(r)go are such impactful figures of international humanities as Zygmunt Bauman, Agata Bielik-Robson, John Maxwell Coetzee, Lubomír Doležel, Ewa Domańska, Michail Lotman, Tadeusz Sławek, Andrzej Szahaj, Waleri Tyupa, Krystyna Wilkoszewska, Lech Witkowski - and many other scholars of international renown. Apart from fostering original research, over the past two decades our journal has rendered many texts of key importance to the development of theoretical research on literature and culture available to the Polish academic audiences. The list of their Authors includes such thinkers as Frank Ankersmit, Roland Barthes, Lawrence Buell, Michel de Certeau, Bruce Fink, Stanley Fish, Frederic Jameson, Hayden White or Slavoj Žižek. Today, Er(r)go has been granted 100 points in the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. As of 2016, Er(r)go is also listed in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH+) as well as in the Index Copernicus Journal Master List with the impact factor ICV 2023 = 116.12. As of 2020, Er(r)go is also indexed by the ELSEVIER SCOPUS database and is listed in EBSCO. Beginning with issue No. 40 (1/2020) – Er(r)go has become bilingual: we publish articles in both Polish and English.
No. 49 (2024)
Published: 2024-12-30
10.31261/errgo
English
Język Polski