10/14: Keynote Lecture: James Phelan, “Close Reading and Narrative Medicine: Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Sunrise/Sunset'”
11:45am-1:00pm
Free and open to the public
Dr. James Phelan (Ohio State University) teaches and writes about narrative theory, the medical humanities, and the English and American novel. Rather than working in only one historical period, Phelan gravitates toward theoretical issues or problems, most often connected with the genre of narrative, and pursues them in texts from different periods. His recent work, however, has focused primarily on twentieth-century British and American narrative, and he now claims the twentieth-century as a specialty. Much of his research has been devoted to developing a comprehensive rhetorical theory of narrative. He has written about style in Worlds from Words, about character and narrative progression in Reading People, Reading Plots, about technique, ethics, and audiences in Narrative as Rhetoric, about character narration in Living to Tell about It, and about progression (again) and reader judgments in Experiencing Fiction. His forthcoming book, Reading the American Novel, 1920-2010, offers rhetorical readings of ten canonical novels written across this ninety year period.
Dr. Phelan will present the keynote address of UMF’s “Paying Attention: A Celebration of Dan Gunn and the Practice of Close Reading” symposium.
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