ABOUT THE JOURNAL
Parerga A Journal of the Postgraduate Department of English of Maulana Azad College is a leading journal in humanities that publishes highly original, and rigorously researched essays. Published for the Postgraduate Department of English of Maulana Azad College, Parerga is peer-reviewed and very selective. The essays in our published pages span multiple areas in humanities and tend to have an emphasis on literary and cultural practices, often of inter-disciplinary nature. Maulana Azad College has been active in promoting multiple languages and traditions. Parerga, though in English, aspires to imbibe the depth and width of Indian traditions and open up to examination literary and cultural practices of pluralistic nature. The mission of the journal is to provide a reflection of these different strands of practices through symbiotic interweaving of thought and expression, whether historicist, theoretical, psychoanalytic or art-historical.
Greeks thought that the matter or the truth was ergon and what was beyond it or supplementary was parergon. The concept was important and was dealt with by Kant and Heidegger. Derrida gave a twist to the idea by troubling the hierarchy of the core and the supplement or the margin and the periphery to suit our postmodern reality. In plural Parerga thus projects a semantic play of the truths lying beyond the accepted truths or the dicta, the received knowledge: what is there yet what eludes us -throwing a sceptical glance at conjectural truth. Let us add the supplement to what we know and do not know.
The journal's scope would encompass the art, architecture, literature, theatre, music, philosophy, film and history of present as well as past periods. We are especially interested in material that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and takes new approaches.
The journal aims to provide a foundational mooring into the cultural richness, heritage and investigations, which will bind together different disciplines towards a scholarly ethos. The published journal is available in print and online. The journal follows a rigorous double-blind peer review policy and the editor retains the right to reject any essay without providing reasons for it. However, the opinion of peer-reviewers is given primacy in this matter. Plagiarism in any form is strictly dealt with and submissions from such authors are not accepted in the future. For call for papers, author’s guidelines, ethics policy and editorial board please look at the dedicated headings on the website
Publisher's Address:
Krishnendu Dutta,
8 DUTTAS LANE, CHATRA, Serampore
P.O. Chatra, Dist. – Hooghly
West Bengal - 712204
Call For Papers
Papers are invited for the first issue of the peer-reviewed journal PARERGA
A Journal of the Postgraduate Department of English of Maulana Azad College with an annual frequency
Frequently Asked Questions
Why ‘Parerga’?
Greeks thought that the matter or the truth was ergon and what was beyond it or supplementary was parergon. The concept was important and was dealt with by Kant and Heidegger. Derrida gave a twist to the idea by troubling the hierarchy of the core and the supplement or the margin and the periphery to suit our postmodern reality. In plural ‘Parerga’ thus projects a semantic play of the truths lying beyond the accepted truths or the dicta, the received knowledge: what is there, yet what eludes us — throwing a sceptical glance at conjectural truth. Let us add the supplement to what we know and do not know.
What Parerga does?
Parerga’s scope encompasses the literariness of art, architecture, literature, theatre, music, philosophy, film, and history of present as well as past periods. In short, Parerga intends not to indoctrinate its imagined readers in one single school of thought but strives to offer perspectives on literary readings/re-readings of a world as lived, perceived and (most importantly) imagined. It attempts to sufficiently capture and float unique ideas and innovative ways of seeing what one sees. While recent reports indicate that several universities are closing their doors to literature departments to cater to ‘career-oriented’ degrees, the Postgraduate Department of English at Maulana Azad College (Kolkata) strives to make windows to literary explorations, mappings and imaginings with a commitment to restore critical thinking, diversification of perspectives, eco-ethical coexistence and holistic wellness.
How to appear in Parerga?
The Postgraduate Department of English proposes in a new form its journal as a new series. It invites research articles and book reviews. The research articles should be original research – carried out without bias and with a legitimate research question and methodology. Book reviews should expose and analyse critical or imaginative works keeping in touch with the modern trends in writing. The word limit range for Research Article is from 4000 to 8000 words and for Book Review from 1000 to 2000 words. All Research Articles and Book Reviews will be double-blind peer reviewed. At the outset, we are not setting any theme for the forthcoming issue. The journal will be published both in print and online versions. The journal strictly follows its ethics policy and plagiarism, if found, will lead to the blacklisting of the author.