[csaa-forum] THE PROSAIC IMAGINARY: NOVELS AND THE EVERYDAY 1750-2000

[Melissa Hardie]

The Prosaic Imaginary: Novels and the Everyday 1750-2000
University of Sydney July 1-4 2014

Registration and draft program now available at: www.novelnetwork.org
 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
Book Launch:
Professor John Frow Character and Person (Oxford University Press, 2014)

This 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.

Dr Melissa Hardie | Senior Lecturer
FASS Indigenous Student Advisor
SLAM Undergraduate Curriculum Co-ordinator
Department of English | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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