“British Literature in the Present ” / “La littérature britannique au présent” A one day conference of the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines

In collaboration with EA 4214 LARCA (Laboratoire de Recherches sur les Cultures Anglophones)

Paris Diderot University

15 / 02 / 2013

 

Morning. Room 1013, Sophie Germain building

Top of the rue Albert Einstein (almost at the corner of Boulevard Masséna)

— 08.45 – 9.00. Opening of the conference.

Chair: Catherine Bernard (Université Paris Diderot)

— 09.00 – 10.00. “New Configurations in Recent British Drama”

— 09.00 – 09.30. Elisabeth Angel-Perez (Université Paris-Sorbonne — Paris IV): “Back to Verbal Theatre: the Post-post-dramatic Theatres of Crimp and Crouch.”

— 9.30 – 10.00. Liliane Campos (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle — Paris 3): “Quantum Configurations in Nick Payne’s Constellations.”

— 10.00 – 10.30. Aloysia Rousseau (Université Paris-Sorbonne — Paris IV): “Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness: Reinventing the Musical?”

— 10.30 – 10.45. Coffee break.

— 10.45 – 11.15. David Nowell-Smith (University of East Anglia): “Arrested Time and Apostrophe : Denise Riley’s A Part Song.”

— 11.15 – 12.00. Claire Larsonneur (Université Paris 8 — Vincennes / St Denis) and Hélène Machinal (Université de Bretagne Occidentale): “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet de David Mitchell : cultures; croyance et connaissance, fiction et médiation.”

— 12.00 – 12.30. Jean-Michel Ganteau (Université Paul Valéry — Montpellier III): “Vulnerable Form and the Politics of Vulnerability: John McGregor’s Even the Dogs.”

 

12.30 – 14.00. Lunch

 

Afternoon. Room 347, Olympe de Gouges building

8 rue Albert Einstein (almost at the corner of Boulevard Masséna)

— 14.00 – 15.00. General meeting of the SEAC.

Chair : Jean-Michel Ganteau (Université Paul Valéry — Montpellier III)

15.00 – 15.45.

Keynote speaker. Hywel Dix (Bournemouth University): “The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Autobiography.”

— 15.45 – 16.15. Catherine Rovera-Amandolese (Université Paris Dauphine): “Writing on the Borderline: Nathan Filer (Where the Moon Isn’t) and Marjorie Celona (Y).”

— 16.15 – 16.30. Coffee break.

— 16.30 – 17.00. Vanessa Guignery (ENS Lyon): “Zadie Smith’s NW or the Art of Line-crossing.”

— 17.00 – 17.30. Laurent Mellet (Université de Bourgogne — Dijon): “ ‘Nothing survives its telling’ (N-W): Redefining the Literary Event in the Latest Novels of Zadie Smith, Jonathan Coe, Ian McEwan, Tim Pears and Pat Barker.”

 

Getting there :

Métro, line 14 / RER C : Bibliothèque François Mitterand station

Tram ligne 3a : Avenue de France stop. Bus : 62 / 64 / 89 / 132 / 325

Contact : catherine.bernard@univ-paris-diderot.fr