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Proustian Afterlives

Proustian Afterlives

Publié le par Matthieu Vernet

Proustian Afterlives

An afternoon colloquium at Royal Holloway, University of London

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 2.30 to 6.45 pm

Royal Holloway, University of London

International Building, Room IN032

[the colloquium is free of charge – all most welcome]

2.30 Session 1

Cynthia Gamble (Lancaster University), ‘Marcel, Maman and a Manuscript: Anatomy of a Folio of La Bible d'Amiens'

Áine Larkin (RHUL), ‘Playing on the Nerves: Performances Musical and Sexual in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu'

Adam Watt (RHUL), ‘Polymorphous Proust'

4.30 Tea/coffee

5.15 Session 2

David Ellison (University of Miami), ‘Proust and Translation'

Followed by a round table, with all speakers

6.45 Drinks


The speakers:

David Ellison is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Miami.His areas of interest for research and teaching are: French literatureof the 19th and 20th centuries; narrative and narratology;German-French literary relations; literature and philosophy; MarcelProust. He is the author of The Reading of Proust (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), Understanding Albert Camus (The University of South Carolina Press, 1990), Of Words and the World: Referential Anxiety in Contemporary French Fiction (Princeton University Press, 1993), and Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2001 hardback, 2006 paperback). He has publishedarticles and essays on nineteenth-century French poetry and on therealist and modernist European novel in a comparative perspective. Withhis colleague Ralph Heyndels he has edited volumes on Victor Hugo andArthur Rimbaud. His latest book, A Reader's Guide to Proust's ‘In Search of Lost Time', has recently been published by Cambridge University Press.

Cynthia Gamble is a visiting Fellow of The Ruskin Library and Research Centre, Lancaster University, and Vice-Chairman of the Ruskin Society. She is the author of Proust as Interpreter of Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Translation (Summa Publications, 2002) and John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lads (New European Publications, 2008), a work that was inspired by her Shropshire heritage. She has co-authored many works on Anglo-French cross currents such as ‘A Perpetual Paradis': Ruskin's Northern France (Lancaster University, 2002) and Ruskin-Turner. Dessins et voyages en Picardie romantique (Musée de Picardie, Amiens, 2003). She contributed 14 entries to the Dictionnaire Marcel Proust (Honoré Champion, 2004), a work that was awarded the prestigious Prix Émile Faguet de l'Académie Française.

Áine Larkin is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin,where she studied English and French literature. In 2001 she took upthe Vincenette et Claude Pichois PhD Studentship in the Department ofFrench at TCD. Her doctoral research explored the assimilation ofphotography into late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Frenchliterature, and her doctoral thesis concerned the thematic andfigurative appropriation of photographic motifs by Marcel Proust in thewriting of his novel À la recherche du temps perdu. In 2008 shewas awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Irish ResearchCouncil for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Together withtext/image relations, her research interests include contemporary womenwriters in French, literature and medicine, and the literaryrepresentation of music and dance.

Adam Watt is Lecturer in French at Royal Holloway, University of London. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate work at the University of Oxford where his DPhil thesis was supervised by Malcolm Bowie. He is author of Reading in Proust's A la recherche: ‘le délire de la lecture' (Oxford University Press, 2009) and editor of Le Temps retrouvé Eighty Years After/80 ans après: Critical Essays/Essais critiques (PeterLang, 2009), a collection of essays stemming from a major internationalconference he organised in December 2007. His next book, The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (CambridgeUniversity Press) is due to appear in December 2010. He is currentlywriting a volume on Marcel Proust for the Reaktion Books ‘CriticalLives' Series.

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THE COLLOQUIUM IS FREE AND ALL ARE WELCOME. VENEZ NOMBREUX!