Journée d’étude. Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)

Salle des colloques n°1 – Site Saint Charles – Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3

PROGRAMME

9h00: Welcome by convenors, Catherine Bernard (Université Paris Diderot) and Christine Reynier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3)

9h15 – 9h40. Cécile Beaufils (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
‘”Moving gently through her thoughts, as one might explore a new garden”: the Gardens of Atonement’

9h40 – 10h05. Sara Thornton (Université Paris Diderot)
‘Which Mad Woman, Which Attic? The Strange Case of the House in Atonement’

10h05 – 10h30. Elsa Cavalié (Université d’Avignon) et Adèle Cassigneul (CAS)
‘”Unseen, from two stories up”: Watching, Seeing and Understanding in Atonement’

10h30 – 10h50. Discussion

10h50 – 11h10: Coffee break

11h10 – 11h35: Christian Gutleben (Université Nice Côte d’Azur)
‘A Cracked Construction: Postmodernist Fragmentation and Fusion in McEwan’s Atonement’

11h35 – 12h00. Pascale Sardin (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) ‘Heterolingualism and interpretation in Atonement : Traduttore, traditore?’

12h00 – 12h20. Discussion

12h20 – 14h00: Lunch

14h00 – 14h25. Christophe GELLY (Université Clermont Auvergne / CELIS EA 1002)
‘Intertextuality and reflexivity in Joe Wright’s Atonement’ (2007)

14h25 – 14.50. Laurent Mellet (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) From The Go-Between (L. P. Hartley, Joseph Losey) to Atonement (Ian McEwan, Joe Wright): Intertextual and Interfilmic Aesthetics

14.50 – 15.15. Pascale Tollance (Université Lumière-Lyon2)
“To everyone”, “To whom it may concern”:
The letter which/for which one cannot answer in Atonement (Ian McEwan et Joe Wright)

15h15 – 15h35. Discussion

15h35 – 15h55: Coffee break

15h55 – 16h20. Georges Letissier (Université de Nantes)
‘”As into the sunset we sail. An unhappy inversion”: The Sense of Destiny in Atonement’

16h20 – 16h45. Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès (Le Mans Université)

‘The Ethical (Re)turn in Atonement by Ian McEwan’

16h45 – 17h05. Discussion

17h05 – 17h30: Closing words