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3 June 2014Abstract:
Survey of the directions taken by the papers of the forum "The Novel and Theories of Love": explorations of love across cultural, social, ethnic, and ontological boundaries; analyses of love as a discursive phenomenon; representations of narratives of love as tests of theory.
Leona Toker, editor of Partial Answers, is Professor Emerita in the English Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures (1989), Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative (1993), Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors (2000), and numerous articles on English, American, and Russian writers. She is the editor of Commitment in Reflection: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy (1994) and co-editor of Rereading Texts / Rethinking Critical Presuppositions: Essays in Honour of H.M. Daleski (1996) as well as of Knowledge and Pain (2012). Her book Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Inter-Contextual Reading is forthcoming in the fall of 2019.