RSSDetails of the 2012 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, which will include three separate panels on Tom McCarthy and one on Tom McCarthy/Simon Critchley. Tom McCarthy is billed as “creative keynote” and Simon Critchley as “critical keynote”. The panels take place on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 February 2012.
A- 10 Philosophy after Simon Critchley
Thursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Seth Morton, Rice University
David M. Robinson, Oregon State University
“Simon Critchley, Wallace Stevens, and the ‘Failure’of Poetry”
Aleksandra Hernandez, University of Toronto
“Phenomenology and the Irrational in Wallace Stevens’ Later Poems”
B- 8 The 21st Century Novel And Tom McCarthy
Thursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Seth Morton, Rice University
James Duesterberg, University of Chicago
“Curated Autonomy in Remainder”
Rebecca Sánchez, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Signs and Scarabs: The Challenge of Communicating in Tom McCarthy’s C”
Paul Cohen, Texas State University-San Marcos
“Remainder as Theory of the Novel”
C- 7 The Unhumanities in Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy
Friday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Seth Morton, Rice University
Kate Marshall, Notre Dame
“Narratology for the Nonhuman: McCarthy v. McCarthy”
Ron Broglio, Arizona State University
“Laugh Now, But One Day We’ll Be In Charge”
Seth Morton, Rice University
“On How to Live Finally: Some Notes on Ending, Transmission, and Cryptology in Critchley and McCarthy”
D- 5 McCarthy and Modernity
Friday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Patrick O’Donnell, Michigan State University
Justus Nieland, Michigan State University
“Dirty Media: Tom McCarthy and the Catastrophes of Modernism”
Leslie Johnson, Aigusta State University
“Ethics After People: On Tom McCarthy’s C”
Patrick O’Donnell, Michigan State University
“The Author as the Letter C: A Response to Justus Nieland and Keith Johnson”
I- 6 Systems and the Contemporary Novel: Joseph Heller, Tom McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 113
Chair:
Christopher R. Boss, University of Kentucky
“I Am the Supervisor: The Corporate Redemption of Masculinity in Joseph Heller’s Something Happened”
Brian Trapp, The University of Cincinnati
“Two Paths or a Maze: A response via Flaubert to Zadie Smith’s Two Paths for the Novel”