REMINDER: Deadline is approaching; hereby extended to March 23.
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 23 March 2012 to
Christopher A. Link (linkc@newpaltz.edu).
This will
be the guaranteed panel at MLA next January.
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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.
300-word abstracts by 23 March 2012 to Leland de la Durantaye,
(
deladur@fas.harvard.edu).
Panel to be submitted for MLA competitive review.