David Feil: “What Nonsense Makes: The Order of Imagination in Beckett’s ‘Lessness’”

October 29, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

David’s paper for the November 6th Evening Papers event, “What Nonsense Makes: The Order of Imagination in Beckett’s ‘Lessness’” will be available for download shortly.About David:
David is one second perhaps not the object of Japan. He’s so big, David eternally: “Your throne shall be ascertained.” This treatment involves the collaboration of the wind. David brings the wind. It is the same thing, but it must be answered, the collaboration of poetry in the poetic idea of family members and disorders that much as he will establish it would be initiating the house of Saul. “Your throne shall be found.” Its literature is then a battered brown hat with image always there but David a nature one yard legs joined like T. S. Eliot illustrates the vanishing of the propositions of philosophy, for those 2.25 standard deviations below the eyes white planes no answer. David is. Always the thing to secretly champion the problem of deviation from the study of the character, except what can be a nature one second light blue almost never one second almost; very much nothing to be said, i.e. he currently resides in Bushwick.David is a second-year MA student interested in early twentieth-century poetry, the peculiarities of language, nonsense, and the poetic imagination.

Alison Fanous: “Imagining Geography in Sydney Owenson’s ‘The truth about enzyte Missionary.’”

October 27, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Alison’s paper for the November 6th Evening Papers event, “Imagining Geography in Sydney Owenson’s ‘The Missionary’” will be available for download shortly.About Alison:
Alison is a second year MA candidate, finishing her coursework this semester. She came straight to NYU after graduating from Brown in 2007 and hopes to continue on to the PhD starting next year. Her areas of focus are most vaguely: British Romanticism, Poetry of all kinds, and Postcolonial literatures. More specifically, she is interested in Romantic Orientalism and the literature and film of the South Asian Diaspora, especially texts that engage with the state of migration and/ or the assimilation of the second generation in the US and UK.

UPDATE! New Time for Evening Papers: 8:30pm

October 23, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Following discussion with those who attended the last Evening Papers session, the forum will now begin at 8:30pm.

Special thanks are due to Dr. Maynard and his expert negotiating skills for keeping us safe and sound in Rm. 222 as we ran late during the October 16th presentations.

If you have any comments regarding this change, please feel free to send them to eveningpapers@gmail.com
Thursday, November 6th, 8:30-10:00pm

October 19, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Thank you to everyone who attended our first and second sessions of Evening Papers this semester.

Our third session will be held Thursday, November 6th, from 9-10:00pm in Room 222, and will feature presenters Alison Fanous and David Feil. Papers and all the rest to be posted shortly.
Trevor Strunk: “The Brink of a Volcano:” 20th Century Race Riots and the Discursive Violence of Race

October 15, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Trevor’s paper is now available for dowload here:

“The Brink of a Volcano:” 20th Century Race Riots and the Discursive Violence of Race
Trevor Strunk: “The Brink of a Volcano:” 20^th Century Race Riots and the Discursive Violence of Race”

October 13, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Trevor Strunk’s paper for the October 16 forum will be available for download shortly; here are a bio and pic.About Trevor:
Trevor Strunk is a second year Master’s student at NYU. He completed his course work over the summer and is currently working through his thesis from the Philadelphia area of PA. He currently teaches part time at a community college and will be applying to PhD programs this Fall. Areas of interest include authors of color, racial issues, graphic literature, and 20th century American fiction in general.

Andrew Marzoni: “Medieval Pretext and Structural Oppositions in ‘The Nonexistent Knight’”

October 13, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Andrew’s paper is now available for download here:

Medieval Pretext and Structural Oppositions in ‘The Nonexistent Knight’

You may peruse Andrew’s abstract, too:

Medieval Pretext and Structural Oppositions in The Nonexistent Knight”

This paper examines The Nonexistent Knight, the concluding novella of Italo Calvino’s trilogy, Our Ancestors, as a postmodern fairy-tale which uses medieval tropes and pretext to express Calvino’s structuralist views of literature and authorship. The novella focuses on Agilulf, a knight in Charlemagne’s army who, as the title suggests, is nothing more than a decorated suit of shining white armor. Agilulf is forced to prove his legitimacy when his position is questioned by the knight Torrismund, while Raimbaut, the story’s young hero, rides through Europe after his beloved Bradamante, a beautiful Amazon enamored by the nonexistent knight. As the three knights’ quests come to intertwine, the story’s narrator, the cloistered nun Sister Theodora, reveals her true identity as Bradamante, and the previously supposed ingenuity of the narrative comes into question.

In his introduction to Our Ancestors, the 1960 publication of the trilogy of which The Nonexistent Knight, preceded by The Cloven Viscount and The Baron in the Trees, is the last installment, Calvino advises his reader to simply take pleasure in the fantastical irreverence of The Nonexistent Knight, admitting that he would approve of any interpretation of the stories in the trilogy offered by the reader. Thus, Calvino encourages his reader to describe - rather than find empirical meaning - in the text through the clear system of binary oppositions afforded to him through the use of medieval archetypes. In the novella’s tongue-in-cheek, medievalist musing on the nature of modern existence, Calvino asks Barthesian questions about literature’s supposed reality and the writer’s function in attempts to represent the world.
Andrew Marzoni: “Medieval Pretext and Structural Oppositions in ‘The Nonexistent Knight.’”

October 6, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Andrew’s paper for the October 16 forum will be available for download shortly; here are a bio and pic.About Andrew:
Andrew is a second-year M.A. candidate in the Department of English & American Literature at New York University. He received his B.A. in English from the University of San Diego in 2007, where he minored in French and Theatre Arts. His main academic interests include post-World War II American and Italian fiction, California literature, postmodern theory, cinema, and the relationships between popular music and literature from the 1960s on.

October 16, 2008: Andrew Marzoni and Trevor Strunk

October 1, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Andrew Marzoni and Trevor Strunk will be presenting at our next forum, Thursday, October 16, from 9-10:00 pm. Room, papers, and bios to be posted.
Awards!

September 22, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Evening Papers is proud to announce the creation of two book stipend awards for best papers presented at the forum. These awards, of $100 each, will be distributed in Spring 2009. Papers are judged by PhD students on the Graduate English Organization, as well as forum conveners.