Center for the Study of the Novel

Event Date: April 20-21 2007

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Please join us for our last event of the CSN 2006-2007 season. This two-day workshop gathers together a younger generation of novel scholars now emerging to national and international prominence to discuss future directions in the field.

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Registration is free and required. To register for the conference, click here. The workshop will consist of discussion around the papers, not of panelist paper presentations. Ideally, registered participants will have read relevant session papers beforehand. Below is the schedule of participants with paper titles; once you have registered, you will be given access to workshop papers to read and print out.

Schedule

Friday, April 20

9:00 am Breakfast Available

9:30 am -11:30 am - Fictionality
Chair: Margaret Cohen, French and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Antonia Syson • “The Seams of Fiction in Epic and Novel”
Department of Classics, Dartmouth College
Jesper Juul • “Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds,”
from Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds
Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen
Qiancheng Li • “Novels, Chinese and Western: Some Observations”
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Louisiana State University

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Coffee Break

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm – Description/Narrative
Chair: Ian Duncan, English, University of California at Berkeley

Sylvain Venayre • "Le Roman et l’Espace: Les aventures de l’aventure en France depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle” or “Novel and Space: Adventures of Adventure in France since the End of the 18th Century”
Centre d'Histoire du XIXe siècle, Université de Paris I
Anatole Pierre Fuksas • “Textual Perception and Narrative Action”
Dipartimento di Linguistica e Letterature Comparate, Università degli Studi di Cassino
Lynn Festa • “A Skin, a Shoe, a Pair of Somethings (Description, Detail, Defoe)”
Department of English, University of Wisconsin at Madison

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Lunch Break

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – The Dynamics of Plot
Chair: Richard Terdiman, Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz

Alex Woloch • from The One vs. The Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel
Department of English, Stanford University
Jesse Matz • “The Art of Time”
Department of English, Kenyon College
Kent Puckett • from Bad Form: Social Mistakes, Social Anxiety, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Department of English, University of California at Berkeley

Saturday, April 21

9:00 am Breakfast Available

9:30 am -11:30 am - World Literature: A Field of Conflict
Chair: Roland Greene, English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Mariano Siskind • “The Globalization of the Novel and the Novelization of the Global”
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Chris Warnes • “Avatars of Amadis: Magical Realism as Postcolonial Romance”
St. John’s College, University of Cambridge
Vilashini Cooppan • “Hauntologies of Form: Race, Genre, and the Literary World System”
Department of Literature, Santa Cruz
Anjali Prabhu • “Postcolonializing ‘I’: Mechanisms of the Francophone Novel”
Department of French, Wellesley College

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Coffee Break

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm – Literary History, Book History
Chair: Jody Greene, Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz

Leah Price • “Reader’s Block: Trollope and the Book as Prop”
Department of English, Harvard University
Jonathan Zwicker • from Practices of the Sentimental Imagination: Melodrama, the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Amanpal Garcha • “The Profession and the Study of the Novel: The Advent of Careerist Theory”
Department of English, Ohio State University

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Lunch Break

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Systems
Chair: Franco Moretti, English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Jérôme David • “Toward a Macrohistory of Literary World Orders”
Faculté des lettres, Université de Lausanne
Andrea Miconi • “New Methods for Old Problems: Latin-American Magic Realism and the Long Duration of Cultural Evolution”
Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Roma “la Sapienza”
Steven Johnson • “Cultural Systems and Consilience,” expanded from Everything Bad is Good for You
Department of Journalism, New York University

Breakfast, lunch and coffee will be available both days.

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Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University
Margaret Cohen, Director
http://novel.stanford.edu

This event is made possible with the support of the Departments of Asian
Languages, Classics, Comparative Literature, DLCL, English, French and
Italian, and the Stanford Humanities Center, along with CSN’s ongoing
support from the Humanities & Science Dean’s Office.