Episode 31: Jim Phelan & Jakob Lothe — Nadine Gordimer’s “Is There Nowhere Else We Can Meet?”
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In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Jakob Lothe discuss Nadine Gordimer’s short story, “Is There Nowhere Else We Can Meet?” Jakob Lothe is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Oslo, where he taught from 1993 to 2020. Some of Lothe’s publications include Conrad’s Narrative Method, Narrative in Fiction and Film, and Time’s Witnesses: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust. Lothe is currently completing a monograph entitled Memory and Narrative Ethics: Holocaust Testimony, Fiction, and Film. Lothe also led a research group dedicated to narrative theory and analysis at Norway’s Center for Advanced Studies in Oslo during the 2005-2006 academic year. Under Jakob’s leadership, the group produced three volumes of essays: Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre; Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading; and After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future. Lothe has also edited or co-edited several other books about the short story, about narrative ethics, about the future of literary studies, and more.
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