8-9 November 2001
School of Advanced Study
University of London

Theory of Literary Reception: The Act of Reading and After
A Colloquium in Honour of Prof. Wolfgang Iser
at the
Institute of Germanic Studies
(organised by The Centre for Reception of German Thought in Britain and The
Reception of British Authors in Europe Project)

This Colloquium marks the opening of a new collaborative enterprise in
Reception Studies, between the Research Project on the Reception of British
Authors in Europe, and the newly founded Centre for the Reception of
German/Austrian/Swiss Literature. Appropriately, given his distinguished
and pioneering contributions to the subject, our first Visiting Senior
Fellow is Professor Wolfgang Iser, and he will give the first annual
Lecture in Reception Studies on the opening evening of the Colloquium. The
aim of the Colloquium is to assess the impact of Iser's work in Reception
Theory on the fields of German, English and Comparative Literature and to
consider the present state of play in the field.
 Other speakers include: Dr Lucy Newlyn, whose recent book Reading,
Writing, and Romanticism. The Anxiety of Reception (OUP, 2000) is a winner
this year of the Crawshay Prize of the British Academy; Dr Elinor Shaffer,
Director of the Research Project on Reception of British Authors in Europe
and deputy Director of the Centre; Dr Susanne Schmid, Co- Editor of The
Reception of Shelley in Europe and a short-term Fellow at the Centre this
autumn; Prof. Geert Lernout, Director of the James Joyce Centre, Antwerp
and Editor of The Reception of Joyce in Europe; and Prof. Robert Weninger,
author of Literarische Konventionen and contributor on the Reception of
Joyce in Germany; and Prof. Martin Swales, author of many publications on
European fiction.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Thursday, 8 November 2001

4:30 PM REGISTRATION
6:30 PM R=FCdiger Goerner (University of London), Introduction
 Wolfgang Iser (Universit=E4t Konstanz), =93The Resurgence of the
Aesthetic=94

Friday, 9 November 2001

10:30 REGISTRATION
11:00 Lucy Newlyn (University of Oxford), =93The Anxiety of Reception=94
11:45 E.S. Shaffer (University of London), =93Reading Iser: The Reception
of Iser=92s Work in Britain=94
12:30 LUNCH
14:30 Susanne Schmid (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit=E4t Frankfurt am
Main),
 =93Re-Reading Readers of Romanticism. Expanding Horizons of
Expectation=94
15:15 Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen) and Robert Weninger (Oxford
Brookes University)
 =93Joyce-Reception-Theory: Coping with Joyce in France and Germany=94
16:30 TEA
17:00 Round Table Discussion: =93The Act of Reading: Iser and After=94
 Moderator: Martin Swales (University College London)

VENUE: Institute of Germanic Studies, School of Advanced Study, University
of London, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
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