The Consortium on the Novel seeks to foster interdisciplinary discussion of the novel among students and faculty from disparate departments to encourage cross-pollination of ideas on topics pertaining to the novel that transcend particular national traditions. We are sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.
2007-08 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, meetings
will be held at 5:30pm in 330 Wheeler Hall, at UC Berkeley. Readings
are available in the Consortium mailbox in 322 Wheeler (on the right
as you come through the door, on the bottom row of mailboxes). The
Novel, ed. Franco Moretti, is also available on a non-circulating basis in the Graduate
Services Room of Doe Library.
Sept 18:
Frederic Jameson, “The Experiments
of Time: Providence and Realism” (Moretti, ed., The Novel, vol 2)
Oct 2:
Michal Peled Ginsburg and Lorri
G. Nandrea, “The Prose of the World” (The Novel, vol 2)
Oct 16:
Nancy Armstrong, “The Fiction
of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism” (The Novel,
vol 2)
Oct 30:
Mieke Bal, “Over-writing
as Un-writing: Descriptions, World-Making, and Novelistic Time,” (The
Novel, vol 2)
Nov 13:
Dorothy Hale, “Fiction as
Restriction,” (Narrative, May 2007)
Nov 27:
Lecture by Dorothy Hale: “Anything But Love: Martha Nussbaum and New Ethical
Theories of the Novel”
(in the Geballe Room, Stephens
Hall, UC Berkeley)
Dec 11:
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, “The
Roads of the Novel” (The Novel, vol 2)
Early February:
Franco Moretti, informal talk
with participants about the making of The Novel.
Late February :
Franco Moretti lecture on novel
theory
(in the Maude Fife Room, 315
Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley)
Early March:
Organizational meeting to vote
on readings for the spring semester, from The Novel, vol 1.
Late April/Early May:
Colloquium on the Historical
Novel, participants to be determined
(in the Geballe Room, Stephens
Hall, UC Berkeley)
Contact Karen Leibowitz (kdl@berkeley.edu) or Ruth Baldwin (rebaldwin@berkeley.edu) for further information or to join the reading group mailing list.
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