Session Details

Thursday, 06 January

44. Surface and Depth: How We Read Now

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Olympic II, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Marxist Literary Group

Presiding: Jason Potts, Saint Francis Xavier Univ.

1. “Learning to See: Reading Raymond Williams Now,” Jason Baskin, Univ. of Wyoming

2. “The Politics of the Political Unconscious,” Barbara Clare Foley, Rutgers Univ., Newark

3. “The Turn Away from Marxism; or, Why We Read the Way We Read Now,” Charles Sumner, Univ. of Southern Mississippi

Respondents: Stephen M. Best, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Sharon Marcus, Columbia Univ.

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