Current Trends inNarratology
June 14 –16, 2007
FreiburgUniversity
Wilhelmstr.26
Room 01014
Contact:Greta Olson: greta.olson@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Thursdayafternoon, June 14
12:00 –14:00 Registration and Coffee in the Wilhelmstaße 26
SessionOne: “Narrative and Mediality”
Chair: Terri Hennings
14:00 ConferenceOpening: Monika Fludernik(University of Freiburg)
14:15 - 15:00 Brian Richardson (University of Maryland) “The Poeticsof Beginnings and Endings in Drama”
15:00 - 15:45 Ansgar Nünning (University of Gießen) “ThePerformative Force of Narrative: The Functions of the Narrator in Drama”
15:45 -16:15 Discussion
16:15 -16:45 Coffee break
16:45 -17:30 Werner Wolf (University of Graz) “Narratologyand Media(lity)”
17:30 -18:00 Eva Müller-Zettelmann (Vienna University) “Poetry and Narratology”
18:00 - 18:30 Discussion
[19:00 ConferenceDinner at Hotel Markgräfler Hof, Gerberau 22]
Fridaymorning, June 15
SessionTwo: “Narrative Consciousness”
Chair: Rüdiger Heinze
08:30 - 09:15 Richard J: Gerrig (Stony BrookUniversity) “Conscious and UnconsciousProcesses in Readers’ Narrative Experiences”
09:15 -10:00 Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham) “Narrative Texture”
10:00 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 UriMargolin (University ofAlberta) “(Mis)perceiving to Good Readerly Effect”
11:45 - 12:30 Alan Palmer (Independent Scholar,London) “Intermental Focalization in Middlemarch”
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion
[13:30 Lunch]
Friday afternoon, June 15
SessionThree “Diachronic Narratology”
Chair: Jan Alber
15:00 - 15:45 Jon Whitman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Medieval Transfigurations: Medieval Transfigurations:Narratives of Nature and the Nature of Narrative”
15:45 -16:30 Discussion and coffee
16:30 - 17:15 IrmaTaavitsainen(University of Helsinki) “Narratives inLate Medieval and Early Modern Scientific Writing”
17:15 - 17:45 Monika Fludernik (Freiburg University) “DiachronizingNarratology: Speech and Thought Representation in Middle English”
17:45 -18:15 Discussion
[18:15 Dinner]
Plenary Lecture: “Postcolonial Narratolology”
20:15 - 21:15 Didier Coste (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3) “Narratology,Western and Non-Western in Postcolonial
andGlobalization Studies: Promises and Limits”
21:15 - 21:45 Discussion
Saturdaymorning, June 16
SessionFour: “Historicizing Narratology”
Chair:Greta Olson
08:30 -09:00 Wilhelm Schernus (HamburgUniversity) “Narratologie im Spiegel kodifizierender Schriften“ (Narratology in theMirror of Codified Texts)
09:00 - 09:30 Eyal Segal (Tel Aviv University) “The ‘Tel Aviv School’ – A Rhetorical-Functional Approach toNarrative”
09:30 - 10:00 Discussion
10:00 -10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Maja Nemere (Hamburg University) “The Influence of Russian Formalism on International Narratology”
11:00 - 11:30 Sylvie Patron (Université Paris7-Denis Diderot) “Enunciative Narratology: A FrenchSpecificity”
11:30 - 12:00 John Pier (University of Tours and CRALParis) “Is There a ‘Postclassical’French Narratology?”
12:00 - 12:30 Discussion
12:45 - 14:00 Summarypanel
Chair: Monika Fludernik