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49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction

Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New York; Sarah Mesle, Univ. of Southern California

2. “‘She Was Explaining to Me That I Had Won Nothing’: Fierce Friendship and Feminist Historical Resignation in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet,” Pamela Thurschwell, Univ. of Sussex

3. “Ferrante on Good Sex with Bad People,” Tina Lupton, Univ. of Warwick

Responding: David S. Kurnick, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

 

339. The Sense of an Ending, Now

 

Friday, 6 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 409, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction

Presiding: Gayle Rogers, Univ. of Pittsburgh

1. “Apprenticeships in Loss,” David James, Univ. of London, Queen Mary Coll.

2. “Queer Happy Endings; or, Is There Life after Death?” Todd Nordgren, Northwestern Univ.

3. “‘There Was Unrest’: Reading History in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending,” Lise Gaston, Univ. of California, Berkeley

 

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