New Issue, 124 (Fall 2013)

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Reps Admin

IN MEMORIAM PAUL ALPERS
· IN MEMORIAM PAUL ALPERS
by Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt, Thomas Laqueur, and Randolph Starn
· VIRGIL’S ECLOGUE V
translated by Paul Alpers

Colleen Lye on “Office Stories”

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Reps Admin

The UC Berkeley Consortium on the Novel presents The Immigrant Novel in America Wednesday, November 13, at 4 pm in 315 Wheeler Hall (The Maude Fife Room) at the University of California, Berkeley. Presentations include “The Void and the Missing: Memory’s Trace in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth” by Karl Britto (UC Berkeley French and Comparative Literature), “The Future as Form: Imagining the Abolition of Social Categories in Ana Castillo’s Sapogonia” by Marcial Gonzalez (UC Berkeley English), and “Office Stories” by Colleen Lye (UC Berkeley English and Representations editorial board). Katherine Snyder (UC Berkeley English), respondent.

Washington, 1923. “Stamp Division, Post Office.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.

Maia McAleavey tracks “The Plot of Bigamous Return”

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Reps Admin

McAleavey’s article traces a single plot—the plot of bigamous return—through a range of genres and texts, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Alfred Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden” (1864), concentrating on Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers (1863). Arguing that plot is a more productive heuristic than genre, this article investigates the intersection of literary currents in one historical moment with the long durée of a recurring story, powerfully present in nautical ballads and melodrama. (Representations 123, Summer 2013)