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Department of English Studies

Tom the Modernist: Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar

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9 March 2023 - 9 March 2023

1:00PM - 2:30PM

Hallgarth House Seminar Room and Online

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A staff and postgraduate research seminar.

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This paper explores Thomas Pynchon’s career-wide vision of modernity, as it stretches from, say, 18th-century Durham to the austerity-stricken reaches of the 21st century. It takes up, among other things, the relation between comedy and what we might think of as a longue durée anti-fascism, and what that twinned relation might mean for some of our contemporary vocabularies of literary study.

Speakers

Peter Coviello

Professor Peter Coviello

Professor and Head of English, University of Illinois Chicago

Peter Coviello is a writer of criticism, scholarship, and literary nonfiction. He has written about stepparenthood, Mormon polygamy, queer children, pop heartbreak, the racial history of sexuality, and, most extensively, American literature. He is the author of five books.

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