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<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color: white;">Registration and draft program now available at: www.novelnetwork.org</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color: white;"> Keynote Speakers: </span></font></div>
<span style="background-color: white;">Professor Maud Ellmann, Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, Chicago</span><br>
<span style="background-color: white;">Assistant Professor Julie Park, Vassar</span><br>
<span style="background-color: white;">Professor John Plotz, Brandeis</span>
<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color: white;">Book Launch: </span></font><font size="2"><br>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color: white;">Professor John Frow </span></font><font size="2"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Character and Person</i></span></font><font size="2"><span style="background-color: white;"> (Oxford University
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<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color: white;">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.</span></font></div>
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