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From: Claire Launchbury [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Dear All
Please find below the finalised programme of our forthcoming study day on 11 June.
The event will also be available as a podcast with links provided on the HARC and SMLLC websites in due course.
All are very welcome, just drop me a line if you wish to attend. ([log in to unmask])
All best
Claire
Unsettling Scores: A Study Day on French musico-poetics from Banville to Duras
Sponsored by the Humanities and Arts Research Centre and the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway University of London.
11 June 2010
The Boardroom, 2 Gower Street, London WC1E 6DP
Encounters with music and the musical in French cultural practice are marked by their difficulty. Music is found to be an impenetrable, mysterious, and evasive art that confounds meaning in its multiplicity and subsequent resistance to firm conclusion. By highlighting problems such as listening, particularly in terms of entendre which carries with it a sense of understanding, we ask what music might be heard to encode; how we might fail to account for it with wrong metaphors, or how music transfigures meaning in a way that is impossible to render due justice in discourse. The study day brings together a selection of papers that each in their own way work in a theoretical field of words and music studies outlined particularly in the work of Jankélévitch, Lawrence Kramer, Peter Dayan and Malcolm Bowie to explore the different perspectives on the boundaries between textual practices and their engagement with music in French literary culture.
PROGRAMME
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10h00 : Coffee
10h30 : Introduction : Claire Launchbury and Ahuvia Kahane
10h45 : Chair : Ahuvia Kahane (Director of HARC, RHUL).
Peter Dayan (Edinburgh) "Stravinsky, Oedipus, Satie, and the 'Cocteau Complex"
Laura Anderson (RHUL) "Syncronising Le Sang d'un Poète: Cocteau's first cinematic-musical engagement"
Claire Launchbury (RHUL) " Douleurs Exquises :Tears, Telephones and Music transgressed in Cocteau/Poulenc, La Voix humaine, and Duras, La Musica deuxième"
13h00 : Lunch
14h30 : Chair : Julian Johnson (RHUL)
Áine Larkin (RHUL/UCL) "Playing on the Nerves: Performances Musical and Sexual in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu'"
Jennifer Rushworth (Worcester College, Oxford). "Proust's programme notes to Vinteuil's music: A la recherche in the light of the nineteenth-century debate over absolute and programme music"
Miriam Heywood (UCL) "Searching in silence: Proust's musical hypertext"
16h00 : Tea
16h15 : Chair : Edward Forman (Bristol).
Florent Albrecht (Paris-Sorbonne) "La notion d'impressionnisme à l'épreuve de la poétique : évaluation des enjeux littéraires à la lumière de la musique et de la peinture"
David Evans (St Andrews) "Communication Breakdown: Debussy, Banville and the Trouble with Serenades"
17h15 : Round Table : Chair Peter Dayan
Respondent : Timothy Mathews (UCL)
18h00 : Drinks.
Dr Claire Launchbury
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