The William Carlos Williams Society has finalized two panel discussions at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 25–28, 2023.
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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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