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Incorporation in Literature
University of Edinburgh Graduate Conference
Saturday 8 July 2006


Conference Programme

9.00 - 9.30 Registration

9.30 - 10.30 Plenary

Professor Graham Huggan (University of Leeds)
'Vampires, again'

10.30 - 10.45 Coffee

10.45 - 12.15 Parallel Sessions

1. Cannibals in Literature

Elizabeth Lindley (University of Cambridge)
'Vampiric Ingestion of Identity: Rewriting Mythology in Marie NDiaye's Theatre

Helen Anderson (University of Oxford)
'Cannibalism, Incorporation, Cancellation: A Reading of Luigi Malerba's 
Il Serpente
(1966)'

Charlotte Baker (University of Nottingham)
'Consuming the Black African Albino: The Work of Williams Sassine, 
Didier Destremau and Patrick Grainville'

Séverine Rebourcet (University of Maryland)
'The Representation of the Appetite as Subverted Pleasures in Calixthe 
Beyala's Comment cuisiner son mari à l'africaine?'

2.  Aesthetics of the Body

Abi Curtis (University of Sussex)
'Indefinite Exteriors: Narrative Desire and the Kiss'

Clare Blackburne (Kings College London)
'Spatial and Bodily In-Corporation in the Early Novels of Jean Genet'

Lisa Otty (University of Edinburgh)
'InHuman Bodies: Andy Warhol's a; a novel

Claire Smith (University of Oxford)
'Screen Skin: Djuna Barne's Nightwood and the Cinematic

12.15 - 1 Lunch

1 - 2.30

3. Influence and Translation

Matthias Zach (Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
'Translation as Incorporation: Shakespeare - Bonnefoy'

Alexander Cuthbert (University of Glasgow)
'European Surrealism and the Poetry of Edwin Muir'

Stuti Khanna (University of Oxford)
'Postcolonial Incorporation: The Case of Salman Rushdie'

Kate Litherland (University of Leicester)
'Isabella Santacroce: Pop, Punk, and Italian Cannibals'

2.30 - 2.45 Coffee

2.45 - 4.15 Parallel Sessions

4. Metaphorical Cannibalism in the Americas

Andrea Maia (Catholic University, Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Vera Casa 
Nova (UFRJ- Rio de Janeiro, EHESS - Paris, Federal University of Minas 
Gerais)
'Tupy or not tupy: that is the question': Poetics of Cannibalism in the 
Literature and Art of Brazilian Modernism

Lesley Wylie (University of Cambridge)
'Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the 
novela de la selva'

Rachel Douglas (University of Edinburgh)
'Frankétienne Eats His Words: A Poetics of Rewriting Exemplified in Les 
Métamorphoses de l'oiseau schizophone'

Anne-Laure Kelly (University College Dublin)
'Urban Indigestion: Lorca in New York'

5. Symbolism of Incorporation

Alina Birzache (University of Bucharest and University of Oxford)
'We are what we eat': Metaphors of Consumption and Incorporation in the 
Fiction of Muriel Spark'

Nicolas Gire (Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne)
'Incorporating the Apocalypse: The Body as a Heuristic Intermediary'

Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik (Jagiellonian University)
'Forscrifen... in Caines Cynne: Grendel's Ca(i)nnibal Embodiments'

Micheál Mac Piarais (Trinity College Dublin)
'Cannibalism and Incarceration in Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow'

4.30 - 6.00

6. Incorporating Text and Image

Michael Farrell (University of Oxford)
'William Blake: The Imagination Incarnate'

Oliver Noble Wood (University of Oxford)
'The Depiction of Fruits and Vegetables in Early Seventeenth-Century 
Spanish Poetry and Painting'

Giulia Lamoni (École Doctorale d'Esthétique et Sciences de l'Art, Paris 
I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université de Lille III)
'Grafting Images on the Text: The Creative Dialogue between Edoardo 
Sanguineti and Carol Rama'

Penny Johnson (University of Newcastle)
'A View to Machu Picchu: An Intersemiotic Translation of Pablo Neruda'

6.00 - 6.30 Wine Reception


REGISTRATION FORM


Please provide your details as requested and send the form, together with a
cheque for £10 made out to 'Incorporation Conference', by Friday 9 June 
2006 to:

Rachel Douglas
French
Division of European Languages and Cultures
University of Edinburgh
59-60 George Square
Edinburgh, EH8 9JU

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Conference fee (incl. light lunch & reception)        £10
Optional Conference Dinner (pay own way: cheap & cheerful!)        Yes/No


Enquiries: Rachel Douglas (Conference organiser), [log in to unmask]
            Antonio Ochoa  (Conference organiser),  [log in to unmask]