Novel Theory

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Poulomi Saha, University of California, Berkeley This will be the second meeting of the Tagore Reading Group. The same zoom link as the March 31 meeting will be used, so no additional registration is necessary. At the intersections...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Tara Menon, Harvard University Professor Menon will facilitate our first round of discussion of Rabindranath Tagore's novel, The Home and the World. Tara K. Menon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Harvard...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Stuart Burrows, Brown University RESPONDENT: Theo Davis, Northeastern University This paper, "'A Certain Form of Words': Henry James's Moral Landscape," is the introduction to his forthcoming book, The Morality of Form: Reading Henry...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago RESPONDENT: Cedric Tolliver, University of Houston Kenneth Warren's scholarship and teaching focus on American and African American literature from the late nineteenth century through the middle...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Chloe Kitzinger This talk draws on my recently published book Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel, an exploration of what creates and sustains the reader’s sense of novelistic characters’ autonomous...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Vanessa Smith, University of Sydney, Australia Her paper proposes a new way of thinking about Dickens’s “little” characters, primarily in The Old Curiosity Shop, referencing Melanie Klein’s play-technique. Klein was the first to...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: KELLY MEE RICH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Please join us for our fall reading group. Guided by Professor Kelly Mee Rich, we will read and discuss the recent novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun. Two meetings will be held on Zoom; you...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKERS: Alex Woloch (STANFORD UNIVERSITY) AND David Kurnick (Rutgers University) How To Join If you registered in March for the reading group, the same zoom link will be used. If you have not yet registered, please register on this...

NOVEL THEORY Balzac/Barthes Reading Group: S/Z We will convene our reading group again on April 7 to explore Barthes's S/Z. On April 14: Alex Woloch and David Kurnick will join us as we continue our discussion of this work. How To Join If you registered...

NOVEL THEORY READING GROUP: SECOND MEETING No additional registration required. Please use the same link as for the first group meeting on March 3rd to join the event.