Abstract
Edit the principal researcher in Edward’s thesis, will, facilitated by Edward, offer for consideration an exploration of Cutting Lisa by way of the edges of and the distances between the widely legitimated reading and that of a white-tailed deer working on a PhD dissertation on unreadability with partial origin in narrative fiction. Without conclusion, this exploration will be doubled via exposition regarding what shapes these edges. As time and temperament allow, there will be a game of enacting to allow interactive engagement with the presented exploration.
Address of the material will begin with an introduction of the legitimated reading of Cutting Lisa as stated in Dr. Anthony Stewart’s introduction to Caitlin McConkey-Pirie (2009): “The novel ends with Livesey aborting his grandchild on the family`s kitchen table” (p 30). Next the critical readings (McConkey-Pirie, 2009; Eder, 1986) will be reconsidered via an overview of goodread's Community Reviews of Cutting Lisa, which frame suspense, if not surprise, as value. Edit will then yield their own experience of Cutting Lisa in contrast to the legitimated reading and superseding the framing implicit within the goodreads’ Community Reviews. Lastly, exposition will be presented in the form of possibilities and questions, which will open considerations toward deictic shifts engaging the multi-faceted edges and distances between Edit and critics and Edit and critics and the author, Percival Everett.
As time and temperament allow, the audience will be guided through a game of enacting to allow interactive engagement with the presented exploration.
Address of the material will begin with an introduction of the legitimated reading of Cutting Lisa as stated in Dr. Anthony Stewart’s introduction to Caitlin McConkey-Pirie (2009): “The novel ends with Livesey aborting his grandchild on the family`s kitchen table” (p 30). Next the critical readings (McConkey-Pirie, 2009; Eder, 1986) will be reconsidered via an overview of goodread's Community Reviews of Cutting Lisa, which frame suspense, if not surprise, as value. Edit will then yield their own experience of Cutting Lisa in contrast to the legitimated reading and superseding the framing implicit within the goodreads’ Community Reviews. Lastly, exposition will be presented in the form of possibilities and questions, which will open considerations toward deictic shifts engaging the multi-faceted edges and distances between Edit and critics and Edit and critics and the author, Percival Everett.
As time and temperament allow, the audience will be guided through a game of enacting to allow interactive engagement with the presented exploration.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 7 Dec 2024 |
| Event | PERCIVAL: an international conference on the literature and art of Percival Everett - King's College, London, United Kingdom Duration: 6 Dec 2024 → 7 Dec 2024 https://baas.ac.uk/news-and-events/2024/06/call-for-submissions-percival-an-international-conference-on-the-literature-and-art-of-percival-everett/ |
Conference
| Conference | PERCIVAL |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | London |
| Period | 6/12/24 → 7/12/24 |
| Other | Everett Studies is at a key stage of its development, and 2024 represents a pivotal moment in Percival Everett’s career generally – as shown by the publication of his 24th novel James by major publishing houses, and the Academy Award and BAFTA wins of American Fiction, which is an adaptation of his 2001 novel Erasure. The first two Everett monographs were also published in 2019 and 2020 (written by the American scholars Derek C. Maus and Anthony Stewart), and in 2021 and 2022 Everett was a Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize finalist. In British academia, Everett has been historically underappreciated and underdiscussed despite his increasing reputation elsewhere or in other sectors. This conference will take place on Friday the 6th of December 2024 at King’s College London, with support from the British Association for American Studies. It seeks to accelerate the growing research interest in Everett’s work in the UK through collaboration with international scholars (particularly from the US and France) who have worked on or taught Everett for decades. Plans for the event include an “Everett in Context” roundtable featuring a French translator of Everett’s work (Anne-Laure Tissut), a publisher of his work from Influx Press (Kit Caless), and a documentary filmmaker who has directed a film about him (Alexandre Westphal). The event will also include a cinema screening of this documentary – L’écrivain et son double – as well as a keynote lecture from a guest speaker. |
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Bibliographical note
Works CitedEder, Richard. “Book Review: Waiting for the Shadows to Take Over.” Los Angeles Times, 1986. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-26-vw-15495-story.html. Accessed 6 Aug 2024
McConkey-Pirie, Caitlin. “Ironist vs. Empiricist: The Political Battle Royale in Percival Everett’s Cutting Lisa and Erasure.” Verso (Dalhousie U) 2009: 30-37. https://ojs.library.dal.ca/verso/article/view/3313/3120. Accessed 27 July 2024