Fall 2021: Theory of the Novel
Fall 2021
F 2-4pm, on Zoom (for the time being)
This reading group is open to everyone. Questions? Feel free to write to us at variationswgroup@gmail.com or unite to our mailing list.
Calendar:
- September 3: Georg Lukács, “Narrate or Describe?” & The Historical Novel (pp. 13-45 & 171-183)
- September 17: Sherryl Vint, “Promissory Futures: Reality and Imagination in Finance and Fiction” & Mark Soderstrom, “Future Fluctuations: Economy, Exchange, and Subjectivity in Recent English-Language Speculative Fiction.”
- October 1: Nicholas Brown, Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism
- October 22: Anna Kornbluh, The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space
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- November 19: Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
- TBA: Roberto Schwarz: Two Girls and Other Essays
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