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
Name:
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Special dietary requirements:
Conference fee (incl. light lunch & reception) £10
Optional Conference Dinner (pay own way: cheap & cheerful!) Yes/No
Enquiries: Rachel Douglas (Conference organiser), Rachel.Douglas@ed.ac.uk
Antonio Ochoa (Conference organiser), A.Ochoa-1@sms.ed.ac.uk