[ecrea] The Prosaic Imaginary: extension of call for papers

The Prosaic Imaginary: novels and the everyday, 1750-2000
July 1-4 2014
University of Sydney

http://novelnetwork.org/

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Maud Ellmann, Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the 
Development of the Novel in English, Chicago
Associate Professor Julie Park, Vassar
Professor John Plotz, Brandeis

The 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.

Suggested topics:
The novel and things
The novel and film/and TV
Readerships of the novel
The novel and gender
The novel and childhood
Queer novels
Psychologies of the novel
Novel genres
The odd or uncategorisable
The secular imagination
Book history and the novel
The novel and the digital everyday
Characters as quasi-persons
Novel worlds
The novel and the institutionalisation of affect
The novel as political action
Temporalities of the novel
The novel and the forms of property
The scale of the novel

Proposals for 20 minute papers or for 3 paper panel sessions should be 
sent to
Vanessa Smith ((Vanessa.smith /at/ sydney.edu.au)) by April 11 2014. 
Postgraduate submissions welcomed.





- John Frow
ARC Professorial Fellow
Department of English
University of Sydney
+61 2 9351 2571 -


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