CFP: Everyday Life (grad) (12/15/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)
The Department of French at New York University announces its annual =20
Graduate Conference, =93Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory =20=
of Everyday Life=94.
February 16-17, 2007
=93How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.=94Annie =20=
Dillard, The Writing Life
=93How are we to speak of these =91common things,=92 how to track them =
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down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they =20
remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, =20
finally, speak of what is, of what we are?=94 Georges Perec, Species of =20=
Places and Other Pieces