Reminder: please send your paper proposals Early and Often. ~SB
MLA 2013 (Boston, MA) Call for Papers:
Nabokov and American Literature. Papers on Nabokov as an
American writer; his interest in specific American
literary figures (Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, etc.), in American
landscapes and settings, or in American culture, broadly conceived;
his role in the American canon. 300-word abstracts by 19 March 2012 to
Christopher A. Link (linkc@newpaltz.edu).
This will
be the guaranteed panel at MLA next January.
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A second panel is being organized for competitive review. As follows.
Nabokov and Autobiography. We
are looking for papers discussing Nabokov's idea of autobiography.
This could include but would not be limited to Nabokov's relationship
to the history of autobiographies, from Augustine (or earlier) to the
present; the "true purpose of autobiography" as it is stated and
practiced in Speak, Memory; and the relation of Speak,
Memory to Nabokov's other works.
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