{"id":4247,"date":"2017-12-28T23:08:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T05:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2017-12-28T23:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T05:08:33","slug":"updike-and-david-foster-wallace-societies-to-sponsor-ala-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/12\/28\/updike-and-david-foster-wallace-societies-to-sponsor-ala-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike and David Foster Wallace societies to sponsor ALA panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-28-at-9.50.38-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4248\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-28-at-9.50.38-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-28-at-9.50.38-PM.png 422w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-28-at-9.50.38-PM-300x119.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a>The David Foster Wallace and John Updike societies are co-sponsoring a session on &#8220;Great Male Narcissists&#8221; at the 29th Annual Conference of the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanliteratureassociation.org\/ala-conferences\/ala-annual-conference\/\">American Literature Association<\/a>, May 24-27, 2018, in San Francisco, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the panel is to explore &#8220;Great Male Narcissists,&#8221; a phrase Wallace used to describe Updike, Philip Roth, and Norman Mailer in his acerbic review of Updike&#8217;s late work, Toward the End of Time. This panel intends to explore the connections and disparities between Updike&#8217;s and Wallace&#8217;s work, especially with regard to their depictions of masculinity. The aim is to complicate and introduce new ideas to both fields.<\/p>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/americanliteratureassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/wallaceupdikejointpanelala2018.pdf\">more details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that the deadline for abstracts of no more than 300 words is January 15. Include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information and attach your abstract as a Word document. Also indicate if you&#8217;ll need AV equipment and remember that scholars are limited to one presentation at this conference. Send your abstracts to:\u00a0 info@dfwsociety.org.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanliteratureassociation.org\/ala-conferences\/ala-annual-conference\/\">ALA Annual Conference information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The David Foster Wallace and John Updike societies are co-sponsoring a session on &#8220;Great Male Narcissists&#8221; at the 29th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 24-27, 2018, in San Francisco, Calif. The purpose of the panel is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/12\/28\/updike-and-david-foster-wallace-societies-to-sponsor-ala-panel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala","category-calls-for-papers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4249,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}