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Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt

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    • 9 May 2020 at 3:15 pm EDT #31137

      James Elkins
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      @jameselkins

      Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

      June 6 – August 29

      I\’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt\’s novel Bottom\’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. This phenomenon includes the “novel-essay” in the generation of Proust and Musil, and  postmodern texts such as Schmidt’s and Anglophone maximalist fiction. We may also be studying some of the translations of Finnegans Wake (German, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, French, Dutch…)

      Everyone is welcome! More information is here:

      https://tinyurl.com/joyceandschmidt

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