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Unpacking Orhan Pamuk's Library: Shelf-Lives of Books - lecture by Venkat Mani on April 10

 

Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin - Madison) will lecture on "Unpacking Orhan Pamuk's Library: Shelf-Lives of Books," Thursday,  Thursday, 10 April 5 p.m. Plangere Annex in Murray Hall (English Department).
 
 More about the Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book and directions at: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/book_history/RSHOB_2008.html

 

ABSTRACT
This paper reflects on reading novels that travel faraway from their points of linguistic origin and create new readerships through acts of translation. Instead of proposing an easy accessibility of the "faraway reader," the paper questions the position and ambition of that reader, her accessibility to the world that the novel creates, and to the one in which the novel was created. Through these reflections, the paper moves to a discussion of select novels and non-fiction writings of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, in order to emphasize the pervasive presence of print media in the varied worlds that Pamuk creates for his readers. The paper explores the efficacy of Roger Chartier's work on "the materiality of the written" and "libraries without walls" as strategies for reading novels. In doing so, it underlines the need for innovative modes of "book-keeping" and "cataloging" that would push comparatist evaluations of contemporary textual practices beyond binaries of geo-cultural divides and inventories of influences.
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