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Many of you are (I hope) planning to attend the 1996 Narrative Conference,
April 25-28 in Columbus.  Others may still be considering their spring
commitments.  To help whet your appetite (or to help plan your spring reading),
here is a list of some of the topics/works that will be discussed at the
conference.
 
At the conference, you will find panels dedicated to the following authors:
 
Henry James (Princess Cassamassima, The American, The Ambassadors)
 
Toni Morrison: a panel on Beloved, a panel on "Recitatif"
 
Joseph Conrad ("The Secret Sharer," Tales of Unrest, Lord Jim)
 
Kazuo Ishiguro (including The Unconsoled)
 
Bakhtin and George Eliot (Mill on the Floss, Romola, Deronda)
 
Pynchon
 
Melville (Moby Dick)
 
Gertrude Stein
 
William Faulkner
 
 
Contributors to the Narrative discussion list may be interested to follow up
recent threads by attending panels on:
 
Lyric and Narrative (including work on Robert Lowell, Rita Dove, Amy Clampitt)
 
Women and Metafiction (Doris Lessing, Jeannette Winterson, Christine
Brooke-Rose)
 
"Narratives On-line"
 
The Role of Computers in Understanding and Reconfiguring Narrative
 
 
Autobiography and its limits will be a recurrent theme at the conference,
including panels on
 "Boundary States and the Limits of Autobiographical
Narratibility,"
  "Making Lives: Birthmarks, Tattoos and Other Stripes,"
"Autobiography and Its Critics
 and "Ethnographies of Themselves: Narrative of Place and Culture in the 19th
century UK"
--and don't forget Wayne Booth, Nancy K. Miller, and Ross Chambers on "How I
Changed My Mind--and Why"
 
From Silent Comedy to African Cinema:  Among the films that will be discussed
at the conference are: Buster Keaton films, Show Boat (1951), Raising Arizona,
Shadowlands, Forrest Gump, Aladdin, The Piano, Pulp Fiction,The Scarlet Letter,
Savage Nights, Saura's Carmen, Bakaba's Les Guerisseurs and films by Ousmane
Sembene.
 
If you've been meaning to read (or reread):
 
Doktor Faustus
Joseph and His Brothers
Cassandra
I Saw the Sky Catch Fire
My Son's Story
The Gold-Bug Variations
A Season of Migration to the North
Dead Voices
Talismano
Sherazade
Midnights Children
Molloy
Sostiene Pereira
Los recuredos del porvenir
The Palace of Shattered Vessels
L'Immoraliste
The Mother's Recompense
Lover
Lie Down in Darkness
Possessing the Secret of Joy
 
now's your chance: these works and more will be discussed at the conference.
 
Hoping to see you there.
 
Rick Livingston
Conference Coordinator
 
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