For some 30 years now, the literary manuscripts of French writers, including certain very major ones, have been intensively scrutinised by individual critics/editors/translators and by teams of geneticians working with the Institut des Textes et manuscripts modernes of the CNRS. What have we learned in that time about the coming-to-be of literary texts and the processes of writerly creation? What do manuscripts tell us and with what different genetic practices do we decode them? In which respects has our practice delivered insights which are generalisable across boundaries of genre, and are these of note beyond highly specialised, author-specific studies? How has our own practice contributed to renewing the interest and value of studying literature? And can we say that genetic criticism itself is moving towards a unified field theory or is it, perhaps, learning to live with untheorisable singularities?
These larger questions involve revisiting others which were thrown up, sometimes polemically, by the post-structuralist moment in which genetic criticism was born and sought its defining rationale: what is the status of the delivered text; the implication of the writing subject; the play of improvisation and programme, origin and finality? To what extent does psychology or sociology provide a meta-discourse?
In counter-distinction to much of the earlier, theory-led questioning, the proposed international colloquium invites an overview of issues, a comparison of cases and a critical evaluation of results obtained from the experience of genetic practice.
Institute of Romance Studies, Londres
Programme:
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Colloque International, Institute of Romance Studies, Londres, 20-21 Juin 2003
Vendredi, 20 Juin
9.30 Ouverture du Colloque
9.45-11.15: La Création en acte et la théorie littéraire
Prof Julie LeBlanc (Toronto): Les dossiers préparatoires et les carnets d'écriture comme laboratoire de l'oeuvre
Dr Daniel Ferrer (ITEM, Paris): La génétique modifie-t-elle notre conception de lintertextualité?
11.15-11.30 Pause Café
11.30-1.00 Enjeux de lécriture
Prof David Nott (Lancaster): La difficile gestation de La Truite de Roger Vailland
Prof Eric Le Calvez (Atlanta): Madame Bovary: génétique de la scène du fiacre
1.00-2.00 Déjeuner
2.00-4.30 Avant-Texte/ Intertexte/ Hypertexte
Dr Paolo dIorio (ITEM Paris/ LMU Munich): Comment publier les manuscrits sur le Web: Le cas de lHyperNietzsche
Prof Tony Williams (Hull): Avant-texte, intertexte, hypertexte: l'épisode du Club de
l'Intelligence dans L'Éducation sentimentale
Dr Domenico Fiormonte (Rome), Digital Philology
4.30-5.00 Pause Café
5.00-6.00 Marie Darrieussecq, Comment jécris. Entretien avec Jean-Marc Terrasse (BnF)
7.00 Réception à LInstitut Français, 17 Queensberry Place (Métro: South Kensington)
Samedi, 21 Juin
9.45-11.15 Les enjeux herméneutiques
Prof Robert Pickering (Clermont-Ferrand): La génétique entre singularité et pluralité de ses possibles herméneutiques
Prof Paul Gifford (St Andrews): Lherméneutique et la création en acte: le cas de La Jeune Parque
11.15-11.30 Pause Café
11.30-1.00 Intentions, Aboutissements, Finalités
Prof Brian Stimpson (Newcastle): Au commencement fut la fin: lécriture en devenir chez Valéry et Duras
Dr Nathalie Mauriac (ENS, Paris): Proust entre deux textes: réécriture et intention dans Albertine disparue
1.00-2.00 Déjeuner
2.00-4.15 Horizons de la génétique
Prof Pascal Michelucci (Toronto): La Création virtuelle
Dr William Marx (Lyon 3): Quelques enjeux culturels de la critique génétique
Prof Almuth Grésillon (ITEM, Paris): '"Nous avançons toujours sur des
sables mouvants". Espaces de la critique génétique'
4.15-4.30 Pause Café
4.30-6.00 Table Ronde: Les études génétiques renouvellent-elles notre regard sur le texte littéraire? Prof Louis Hay (ITEM, Paris), Prof Edward Hughes (Royal Holloway), Prof Joseph Jurt (Freiburg), Prof Robert Pickering (Clermont-Ferrand), Prof Almuth Grésillon (ITEM, Paris)
To register please contact IRS@sas.ac.uk.