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Michael North, Novelty: A History of the New

UCLA English faculty member Michael North has just published a new book, Novelty: A History of the New, with the University of Chicago Press. You can read long excerpts here and here and a few glowing reviews here and here and, finally, an interview with North here.

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Jacquelyn Ardam on Gertrude Stein

Our very first M/ELT presenter was UCLA graduate student Jacquelyn Ardam who went on to publish her paper, ”Too Old for Children and Too Young for Grown-ups”: Gertrude Stein’s To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays,  in the journal Modernism/modernity.

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Unfortunately, it’s behind a firewall (academic subscribers can get access to it through ProjectMUSE where an excerpt is available to non-subscribers). I’m sure we can find a way to get you this if you are really interested.