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Dear Colleagues, Please find below the programme of the forthcoming Musil conference. To register for the conference, please return the booking form: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/news/musil/booking_form_musil.doc Biennial Conference of the Internationale-Robert-Musil-Gesellschaft Re-contextualising Robert Musil: the author 'without qualities' and European culture Thursday, 20th September - Friday 21st September 2007 Lancaster University The conference is being held by the International Robert Musil Society in collaboration with the Department of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster, United Kingdom and with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum. The Theme of the Conference With Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities, 1930-32) Robert Musil gave world literature one its most 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 20th century. Though the central focus will be on Musil himself, the remit is broad and 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 (eg Ruskin and the Arts and Crafts movement.) Event website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/news/musil/index.htm Conference Programme Thursday: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften im neuen Kontext Time Lancaster University Conference Centre 9.30 - 9. 50 Registration/Anmeldung 9.50 - 10.00 Words of Welcome/Begrüßungsrede 10.00 - 10.40 Negative freedom in The Man without Qualities Burton Pike (New York) 10.40 - 11.20 Metaphor as extra-temporal moment in Musil and Proust Genese Grill (Burlington) 11.20 - 11.40 Coffee break/Kaffeepause 11.40 - 12.20 The contemporary reception of The Man without Qualities Stefan Kutzenberger (Vienna) 12.20 - 13.00 Musil im Kontext der Poetik des modernen Romans Rosmarie Zeller (Basel) 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch/Mittagessen 14.30 - 15.10 Zwei Übersetzungen, zwei Romane: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften in italienischer Sprache Gioia Valdemarca (Udine) 15.10 - 15.50 "Etwas Unerprobtes und Fernes": Rachel und Soliman im Kontext des europäischen Imperialismus Anne Fleig (Hannover) 15.50 - 16.10 Coffee break/Teepause 16.10 - 16.50 Das Prinzip, Literatur entsteht aus Literatur: mögliche Gründe für die Schwierigkeit seiner Anwendung auf den Fall Musils Peter Henninger (Paris) 16.50 - 17.30 Intertextualität im textgenetischen Zusammenhang am Beispiel der Romangenese des Mann ohne Eigenschaften Walter Fanta (Klagenfurt) 18.30 - 20.00: Reception and Buffet/Empfang und Büffet Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University. Friday: Das Interkulturelle bei Musil Time Lancaster University Conference Centre 9.20 - 10.00 Essayismus als Metatext: Über Robert Musils Bücher Birgit Nübel (Hannover) 10.00 - 10.40 Young Törless in the light of Victorian literature Malcolm Spencer (Birmingham) 10.40 - 11.20 Musil und Kierkegaard im Kontext der Frühromantik Sebastian Hüsch (Basel) 11.20 - 11.40 Coffee break/Teepause 11.40 - 12.20 Musil's short prose with reference to Kafka and Walser Jeppe Ilkjaer (Roskilde) 12.20 - 13.00 Musil und Franz Blei Silvia Bonacchi (Warsaw) 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch/Mittagessen (Büffet) 14.00 - 14.40 Remarks on Robert Musil's essay 'The mathematical man' Franz Kollmann (München) 14.40 - 15.20 Literarische Moderne und philosophische Antike. Zu Robert Musils Denken und Darstellen des 'anderen Zustands' Stefan Hajduk (Limerick) 15.20 - 16.00 Closing discussion/Abschlußforum For further information contact Prof Philip Payne, Department of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YT, UK; email: [log in to unmask] website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/news/musil/index.htm