Beyond the settled and superficial views that result from the repetition of a few well-worn quotes from Lowell about Williams, what can we learn from reading these two writers together now?
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ALA 2023 (Boston) The Great American Novel at 100
How do we understand its mixed composition, its challenge to novelistic chronology, and its shifts of voice from persona to persona? What do we make of the fact that much of it is stolen? Is the dialogue between the urbane interrogator and the one he calls “mon vieux coco” central? What does the text teach us about the canonical idea of a “great American novel”?
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The William Carlos Williams Society will host two panels at the American Literature Association’s 33rd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 26-29, 2022
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The William Carlos Williams Society will sponsor two panels at the 2021 Annual Conference of the American Literature Association in Boston, Massachusetts. The dates of the conference are July 7–11.
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