2014 ASEEES Panel: The Literature of Failure

[*Meghan Vicks*]

Dear Seelangers,

I am organizing a panel for the 2014 ASEEES conference in San Antonio on "The Literature of Failure." The literature and aesthetics of failure, broadly defined, include some of the following ideas: the problems and creative potential of misreading, meaningful mistakes, failure as a creative/narrative impetus (I have in mind Nabokov's quote about Gogol: "Fancy is fertile only when it is futile"), the relationship between the impossible and creation, when language fails (silence, the impossibility of communication, translation), etc.

We are looking for a third presenter, a discussant, and a chair. Please contact me at meghan.vicks at gmail.com if you are interested in joining us.

Best,
Meghan


Meghan Vicks
Ph.D. Comparative Literature
Lecturer
Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Colorado, Boulder

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