Dear Colleagues,
Below is the provisional programme for the conference _Fictions Today_ to be
held at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2-4 July 1997. The conference
will provide a forum for discussion of topics of interest to scholars of
contemporary fiction (post-1975) in French, German, Italian and Spanish. The
conference has attracted a particularly strong contingent of Italianists
from all over the UK as well as Holland and the US to give papers. The main
aim of the conference is to allow scholars in different disciplines within
the study of contemporary fiction to meet and compare notes.
The full conference fee is £110 (inc. food, en-suite accommodation,
conference pack etc.) and registration forms and more information can be had
by e-mailing me at the following address:
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Thanks,
Michael McLoughlin, Dept. European Languages, UW Aberystwyth.
Fictions Today University of Wales, Aberystwyth 2-4 July 1997
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 2ND JULY
1.00 pm Registration Opens
2.40pm Conference Opens
3.00 pm First Session
Edmund Smyth (Liverpool) Fiction Today and the Concept of
Postmodernism
Michael McLoughlin (Aberystwyth) Benni, Postmodernism and Fantapolitica
4.30pm Coffee Break
4.45 pm Second Session
Marina Orsini-Jones (Coventry) Teaching Literature with the Computer:
From Deconstruction to Constructivism via Hypermedia
7.00pm Dinner
THURSDAY 3RD JULY
9.30pm Third Session
Session 3
Costantino Maeder (ASCA, Amsterdam) Pulp Literature and Young Italian
Writers: Hype of Literary Renewal
Hajo Drees (Grand Valley State) Voicing the Void: From
Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Wunderkinder Exploring Germany's
Fiction of the Nineties
Charles Forsdick (Glasgow) Fictions of the Fin-de siècle:aspects of the
crise identitaire in the 1990s French Novel
11.00pm Coffee break
11.15 Fourth Session
Session 4a
Martin Crowley (Manchester) The Last Words of Marguerite Duras
George Talbot (Hull) Sebastiano Vassalli and the Return of the Historical
Novel
Session 4b
John Coombes (Essex) Christiane Rochefort, James Kelman and the
Politics of the Demotic
Marina Spunta (Exeter) The Interrogative Dimension in Tabucchi's
Narrative, or, the Technique of the Gap
12.00 Lunch
2.00pm Fifth Session
Session 5a
Ruth Glynn (Birmingham) History as Fiction in Malerba's Il fuoco greco
Denita Drees (Grand Valley State) Eduardo Mendoza: An Exemplary Writer
of Post-Franco Fiction
Angharad Price (Jesus, Oxford) Palimpest History: The Fiction of Robin
LLywelyn and Christoph Ransmayr
Session 5b
Juliet Wigmore (Salford) Bring on the Clones: The Art of Reproduction in
Monika Maron's novel Die Uberlauferin
Gill Rye (UCL) Questions of Mothering: Textual Relations and Women's
Identity
Giancarlo Lombardi (Smith College) Vox Feminae: Polyphonic Inscriptiions
of Abuse in Voci and Casalinghe all'inferno
3.45pm Coffee
4.00pm Sixth Session
Session 6a
Jennifer Burns (Magdalen, Oxford) Immigrant Writing in Italian: A Fragile
Enterprise
Keith Scott (Aberystwyth) New Franco-African and Immigrant Writing
Session 6b
Christopher Robinson (Christchurch, Oxford) Re-educating the Reader:
Fictional Strategies and Gender Issues in Contemporary 'Gay' Fiction
Claudia Bernardi (Bath) Writing as a Man, Writing as a Woman: Language
and Gender in the New Italian Fiction of the 1990s
FRIDAY 4TH JULY
9.15am Seventh Session
Paul Cooke (Birmingham) Das schreinde Amt: The Dialectics of Modernism
in the Work of Wolfgang Hilbig
Victoria Best (Jesus, Cambridge) La Maladie de la Mort: Desire and
Narcissism in Duras's Later Work
Janet Lloyd (Salford) José Angel Muñoz: A Frustrated Writer?
11.00am Coffee
11.15 Eighth Session
Laura Rorato (Bangor) The New Italian Landscape and the Great Australian
Emptiness: A Comparative Analysis of Gianni Celati's Post-1980s Fiction
and Rodney Hall's Collected Poems
Aine Smith (QUB) "L'Ambiguïté du Site" and the Treachery of Place:
Identity and Place in the Work of Marie Redonnet
12.30pm Conference Closes
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