Session Details

Friday, 29 December

592. Propitious and Precarious Spaces in the City

7:15–8:30 p.m., Washington B, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Peter Lawrence Schulman, Old Dominion Univ.

1. “‘Local clos, en plein air’: Malet, Spatial Dispersal, and the Criminal City,” Andrea Goulet, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

2. “Squared Away: The Perilous Space of the Modern Novel,” Jean-Louis Hippolyte, Rutgers Univ., Camden

3. “Propitious and Precarious Space: A Poetics of Mass Transit in Jacques,” Suzanne Fuller Braswell, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

4. “Nonplaces in the City: Supermarkets and Frenchness,” Laura I. Pondea, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

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