VENUE: EASTERN AVENUE AUDITORIUM AND NEW LAW SCHOOL,
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Maud Ellmann, Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, Chicago
Assistant Professor Julie Park, Vassar
Professor John Plotz, Brandeis
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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PROGRAM (PDF)
ABSTRACTS (PDF)
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Maud Ellmann, Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, Chicago
Assistant Professor Julie Park, Vassar
Professor John Plotz, Brandeis
This international conference will open up the nuances of the term ‘prosaic’ by exploring the privileged relationship between the novel genre and multiple and complex categories of the ‘everyday’.
Building on John Plotz’s notion of the novel as exemplary ‘portable property’, the conference will address the relationship between novel-reading as everyday activity and the novel’s prosaic subject matter, whether this is conceived as material object, cultural practice, or speech act.