Jonathan Franzen and Contemporary Realisms
Friday, 22nd March, 2013, 11am – 5pm
Level 5, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow University
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 Dr. Andreas Kubik (Rostock University)
“ Omniscience? What omniscience? On the narrator's position in The Corrections”
12:30 - 1:30 Dr. Steven Sampson (author of Côte Est-Côte Ouest; Bret Easton Ellis à Jonathan Franzen)
“ Reflections on Freedom and the Letter ‘F’”
1:30 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 3:30 Dr. Kasia Boddy (Cambridge University)
“The Great American Novel, Freedom and the News”
3:30 - 3:45 Coffee break
3:45 - 4:45 Roundtable hosted by Charles Nixon and Simon Sandison (PhD candidates, Leeds University)