READING DON DELILLO
The Laboratoire Orléans-Tours de Littérature Américaine (LOLitA)
organizes an international conference on Don DeLillo to be held at the
University of Orléans, March 1-2 2002.
For the first time in France a colloquium will be dedicated to Don
DeLillo.
With 12 novels published in a little more than 30 years, DeLillo is now
considered as one of the major contemporary American writers, and this
conference will try to assess his situation in the field of American
fiction.
To read - and reread - a novel by DeLillo is to experience the
singularity of his writing. The author of Underworld and The Body Artist
claims that "The writer is working against the age and so he feels some
satisfaction at not being widely read. He is diminished by an audience."
Still, when he rejects the popular literature of entertainment as
"elevator music", DeLillo obviously expresses his hope that some people
are ready to make some efforts. Even when they seem to belong to
recognizable genres (End Zone as a sports novel, Running Dog as a
thriller…), his plots do not develop along familiar lines. This implies
that the "ethics" of reading thus required leads to an aesthetics of
reading. What links can be established between the reading of DeLillo's
novels and their respective aesthetics and poetics?
Send abstracts of papers (200 words) to:
Prof. François Happe, Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines,
10 rue de Tours, 45072 Orléans cedex 2; or by email
mailto:fhappe@club-internet.fr
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: NOVEMBER 25, 2001.
===============================================
From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
CFP@english.upenn.edu
Full Information at
http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu
===============================================
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Oct 10 2001 - 17:40:39 EDT