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Defending the Literary:  From Cervantes to Coetzee

A One-Day Symposium in Honour of Prof. Michael Bell

Saturday 20th September 2008
The Studio, Capital Centre, Milburn House, University of Warwick

The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies is hosting a one-day conference reflecting the interests of Professor Michael Bell, with lectures on subjects ranging from Romanticism to Modernism.  Registration is open to all.

Speakers include:
Professor Claude Rawson (English, Yale): “‘The Amorous Effect of “Brass”’: Showing, Telling and Money in Emma”

Professor Ritchie Robertson (German, Oxford): “Wilhelm Meister’s Extended Family: The German Bildungsroman and the European Novel”

Dr Peter Poellner (Philosophy, Warwick): “Philosophy and Literature”

Dr Fiona Becket (English, Leeds: “Lawrence, Language and Modernism”

Professor Ed Larrissy (English, Queen’s Belfast): “Reading Poetry”

Professor Michael Wood (Comparative Literature, Princeton): “Strange Deaths: Fictions of History in Some Modern Writers”

Professor Michael Bell:  “Magical Realism Revisited: between History and Poetry”

For further information on the conference, see www.warwick.ac.uk/go/michaelbell or contact the Departmental Secretary, Miss Tina Bailey. +44 (0)24 76 523323. [log in to unmask]  Conference organisers:  Professor Peter Mack, Professor Karen O’Brien, Dr. Michael John Kooy.

 

 

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