New Visions: The Writer in Literature and Criticism
School of English and American Studies
University of East Anglia
9th of February 2002

Draft Programme

9:30-10:00              Coffee and registration

10:00-11:00             Plenary Address (Introduced by Jon Cook)
                        Professor Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester)
                        TBA

11:00-12:30     Wound Cultures: Ethics and Religion (Chair: Marina Mackay)

Carl Lavery (University of Paris VIII)
The Ethics of the Wound: Genet's Journey from Sainthood to Alterity

C. Jason Lee (University of Central Lancashire)
 "The Critic's and Hazel Motes" Terror of Nothing: Free Will and Fate in
Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood

James Mackay (London)
"A Wolf, A Story, A Touch, A Religion or A Mountain Top": The Circle of
Storytelling in Hyemeyohsts Storm

Gendering the Metaphor: Power and Legitimation

Zsuzsanna Varga (University of Edinburgh)
"Fit work for Woman:" Victorian Female Critics Theorising Authorship

Carolyn Miller (University of Winsconsin)
"The Broad Noon of Public Scorn:" Beatrice Cenci, Shelley, and the Critics

Thomas March (New York)
Jeanette Winterson's Anxious Wink

Conspiracy Discourses: Economy, Ecology and Germs

Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)
Don De Lillo and the Economies of Fiction

Kate Campbell (University of East Anglia)
TBA

David Berridge (University of Exeter)
In the Field of Language: Writing as Ecology

Metaphors of Self-Creation

Anne Meier (University of Lyon)
David Lodge vs. David Lodge

Elissa Rospigliosi (Mansfield College, Oxford)
Assonance, Autobiography and Metaphors of Self-Creation in the Work of Mina
Loy

Nick Bentley (Staffordshire University)
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: An Exercise in Meta-Criticism


12:30-1:30              Lunch

1:30-3:00       Language: The Vocal, the Visual and the Textual

Jonathan Jones (University of Warwick)
Finding a Voice: Mary Shelley's Conversation with Locke and
Rousseau in Frankenstein

Michaela Canepari-Labib (University of Milan)
The Image of the Spiral in Barthes's Criticism and Brooke-Rose's Fiction

Tom Day (University of Warwick)
Geoffrey Hill: Atonement, Betrayal and the Criticism of Four Quarters

Ars Poetica (Chair: John Plunkett)

John McWilliams (University of Bristol)
"Who would Write?" (Andrew Marvell, letter to Edward Harley): Marvell and
the Problems of Writing

Britta Martens (University College London)
Robert Browning's Critique of the Critics

Emilie Gonand (University of Paris VII)
The Metaphor of the "lyric I" in an Imaginary Ars Poetica: A Reading of
"Interview with Professor Y" by Louis Ferdinand Céline

Postcolonial Mythologies

Jane Poyner (University of Warwick)
Evading the Censor: J. M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg

Joe Brooker (Birkbeck College)
"Mind That Crowd": Envisioning the Author in Flann O'Brien

Richard J. Lane (South Bank University London)
Metaphors of Reclamation: Mythology vs. Postcolonial Theory in Canadian
Aboriginal Writing

Contagious Metaphors

Petra Rau (University of Portsmouth)
"Talking Cures?"  Freud's Contagious Textualities

Philip Tew (University of Central England; University of
Debrecen)
Exploring Tangible and Ideological Metaphoricity in B. S.
Johnson

Jon Adams (University of Durham)
Science between Cultures

3:00-4:30               Nomadic Subjectivities (Chair: Sarah Salih)

Gina Vitello (Birkbeck College, London)
The Writer and the Act of Writing: Virginia Woolf and Deleuzean Becoming

Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh University)
Chaucer's Mirror Metaphors

Brigid Rooney (University of Sydney)
Alien(ating) Powers: Les Murray and his Critics in the Australian Public
Sphere

Metaphors of Science and Technology (Chair: Allan Lloyd Smith)

Jeanette Baxter (University of East Anglia)
Pure Science, Impure Subjects: Chemistry, Jewishness and the Paradox of
Testimony in the Writing of Primo Levi

Stephen Burn (University of Durham)
Science and the Contemporary American Novelist

Bronwen Calvert (University of East Anglia)
Inventing Cyberspace: Critical Hyperbole and Cyberpunk Fiction


Weaving of Stories (Chair: Ralph Yarrow)

Sara L. S. Gooderson (University of East Anglia)
On the Inside Looking Out: Metaphors for the Readerly
Writing of A. S. Byatt

Maria-Sabina Alexandru (University of East Anglia)
Salman Rushdie's Sea of Stories: Storying the "Fatwa"

Douglas Cowie (University of East Anglia)
This Ain't Some Kind of Metaphor, This is Real: Theorists and
Writers in the Academy

Modern Poetics

Neils Buch (Cornell University)
A Chance Encounter? The Writer and the Critic in Early
Modernist Poetics

David Greenham (University of Nottingham)
Metaphors of Authority in Norman O. Brown's Love's Body

Glyn White (University of Central Lancashire)
Poeticising Poetics: Authors and Critics in Christine Brooke-
Rose's "Thru"

4:30-5:00               Coffee

5:00-6:00               Literary Forum

Paul Magrs (University of East Anglia)

Denise Riley (University of East Anglia)


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