Subject: 1998 MLA (Modern Language Association) Convention - Special Session

From: "A. Gabon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 00:33:21 -0500

CALL FOR PAPERS:

         		       	SPECIAL SESSION ON

                	THE MINUIT NOVEL IN THE 1980s AND 1990s
			
	                	1998 MLA CONVENTION

			   SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 27-30

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All approaches welcome

Suggested authors:  Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Christian
Oster, Christian Gailly, Marie Redonnet, Eugene Savitzkaya, Eric Laurrent,
Francois Bon, Eric Chevillard, Marie Ndiaye, etc.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) studies of particular
novels and authors; the "new Minuit"; the new Minuit and postmodernist
fiction; the new Minuit and the "cinema of the look" (Beneix, Besson,
Annaud, Carax...); the new Minuit and previous literary movements (New
Novel, New New Novel, Tel Quel, L'OULIPO...); the Minuit novel and popular
culture; the "modernist" Minuit in the 80s and 90s (Robbe-Grillet, Simon,
Duras...); the Minuit novel and contemporary France; politics and
strategies of the publishing house, etc.

Abstracts or papers by March 1

For further information or submission of proposals, contact:

Alain Gabon
The University of Iowa
French and Italian
Phillips Hall 555
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone:  319-335-2253 (work)
	319-353-1943 (home)
Fax:  319-335-2270
e-mail:  [email-masked]