From: IN%"[log in to unmask]" 8-FEB-1996 17:01:40.22 To: IN%"[log in to unmask]" CC: Subj: 1996 Narrative Conference Teaser Return-path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from ctrvx1.Vanderbilt.Edu by VAX1.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU (PMDF V4.3-7 #3750) id <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 17:00:38 CST Received: from ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu by ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu (PMDF V5.0-5 #11488) id <[log in to unmask]> for [log in to unmask]; Thu, 08 Feb 1996 16:47:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu by ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu (PMDF V5.0-5 #11488) id <[log in to unmask]> for [log in to unmask]; Thu, 08 Feb 1996 16:46:13 -0600 (CST) Received: by bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (8.6.10/4.940426) id RAA12411; Thu, 08 Feb 1996 17:47:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 17:47:06 -0500 (EST) From: Robert E Livingston <[log in to unmask]> Subject: 1996 Narrative Conference Teaser In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Errors-to: [log in to unmask] Reply-to: [log in to unmask] Resent-message-id: <[log in to unmask]> Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> X-VMS-To: IN%"[log in to unmask]" MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]