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From: "Payne, Philip" <[log in to unmask]>
Biennial Conference of the Internationale-Robert-Musil-Gesellschaft,
Lancaster, 20-21 September 2007.
"Re-contextualising Robert Musil: the author `without qualities´ and
European culture."
The Internationale-Robert-Musil-Gesellschaft (IRMG) [International
Robert Musil Society (IRMS)] will hold its forthcoming biennial
conference in Lancaster on 20 and 21 September 2007 in collaboration
with the Department of European Languages and Cultures (DELC),
Lancaster University, United Kingdom and with the support of the
Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
Theme of the Conference:
With Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930-32) (The Man without Qualities)
Robert Musil gave world literature one of its most original and
enduring works of narrative fiction. Among the defining features of his
novel are the breadth and depth of Musil´s engagement with the cultural
cross-currents - Austrian, German, Anglo-Saxon, European - of its age;
the Lancaster Colloquium will set out to explore these. Papers of
twenty to thirty minutes in length will investigate influences on
Robert Musil from the perspective of various cultural traditions of the
19th and the 20th century. Though the central focus will be on Musil
himself, the remit is broad and contributors may range over such themes
as Romanticism in Britain and Europe as a whole, modernism,
intertextuality, theory and practice of the encyclopaedic European
novel, Austrian prose and its transnational outreach, and the interplay
of aesthetics and morality within modern European culture (e.g.Ruskin
and the Arts and Crafts movement).
Papers will be given in one of the two conference languages, namely
German or English, while panel discussions will be in both languages
according to the choice of the speakers and participating members of
the audience.
Conference programme
The programme will include some sixteen papers over the two-day period;
leading experts from Austria, Germany, the United States, France and
the United Kingdom have already agreed to contribute. Other papers on
one or more aspects of the areas identified are invited - particularly
from younger researchers - for the limited number of vacant slots. If
you wish to be considered for one of these, please contact Philip Payne
of the Department of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster
University, ([log in to unmask]) with a synopsis of your proposed
paper. It is anticipated that the conference proceedings will appear in
the series Musiliana published by the IRMG.
For further details see:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/news/news.htm
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