Literary Discoveries: Manuscripts, Letters, Real Human Beings

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

For many literary scholars, bringing forgotten texts to life provides a great sense of academic satisfaction. Three of the four presenters will discuss the under-appreciated or recently discovered manuscripts of writers whose work is worthy of more attention. The fourth panelist will discuss his discovery of the real life Lithuanian counterpart of a character from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

Sub Unit

• Literature and Language Studies

Chair

• Julija Sukys, University of Missouri

Individual Presentations

• A Real Person behind the Bride Character in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (1905–1906) - Giedrius Subačius, University of Illinois at Chicago

• The Story of Valdas Papievis’s Forgotten Manuscript - Violeta Kelertas, University of Washington

• Filtered Through: Raimond Kaugver's Gulag Memories in Letters and Literature - Eneken Laanes, Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences/Tallinn University