Société des Dix-neuviémistes, Call For Papers 2023 :
Magic : Enchantment and Disenchantment /
La Magie : Enchantement et désenchantement
University of Oxford (Christ Church), 27-29 March 2023
In addition to papers with links to the 2023 conference theme, ‘Magic’, we invite submissions for open-themed individual papers or panels on:
Research Methodology and/or Theory : five ten-minute papers and questions*
Pedagogy Roundtable: five ten-minute papers and discussion*
*work-in-progress papers warmly welcomed
200-word proposals for (20-minute) individual papers and for panels on the topic of magic (see suggestions below) should be sent to sdn.proposals@yahoo.co.uk by 30th of November, 2022.
For specific queries, please contact the conference organiser, Dr Claire Moran c.moran@qub.ac.uk
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The power of the imagination
Voyages: the magic of travel; the disenchantment of the world
Magical worlds: utopias and dystopias
Exoticism as Magic
Magic money: get rich quick schemes, stock market bubbles and crashes
Magic money: the ‘oncle d’Amérique’, the sudden inheritance and other forms of deus ex machina
Romanticism and ‘l’école du désenchantement’ (Bénichou)
Le merveilleux and le fantastique (Todorov)
Folklore
Miracles, transformations and epiphanies
Enchantment, fantasy, faërie
Belief and scepticism
Rationalism and the irrational
Mystery and the unexplained
Ghosts
The occult and prophecy
Spells, Mediums, turning tables, speaking with the dead
Witches (Michelet) and Mages (Sâr Péladan…)
Demons, devils, and dangerous fairies
Science as disenchantment/science as enchantment
The Magic of technology: la fée électricité and other innovations
Shock and Surprises: the unexpected
Poetry as incantation
Literature/Poetry as alchemy
The Writer/The Poet as alchemist
The Poet as demiurge
Art and the uncanny; the artist as magician; the Pygmalion myth
Fantastic illustrations and caricatures: Gustave Doré, Grandville…
Rewritings of the Mille et une nuits and of Perrault’s Histoires ou contes du temps passé
Rewritings of plots and motifs found in les contes de fées (Maupassant, Lorrain)
The magic of performance
Staging Magic: Acts of illusion and theatrical representations of magic
The reception of the Gothic novel in France
Hoffmann in France
Power over nature and natural forces
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En français
L’imagination
Le voyage, l’exotisme
L’utopie /la dystopie
L’irréel
Le romantisme and ‘l’école du désenchantement’ (Bénichou)
les contes de fées
Le merveilleux and le fantastique (Todorov)
Les spectres et les fantômes
Les puissances cachées
Les miracles, les transformations, les épiphanies
L’enchantement, la fantasie
Le sceptisme
Le rationnel/ l’irrationel
Le mystère, l’incroyable
L’occulte
Les sorts / la sorcellerie
Les sorcières (Michelet) et les mages (Sâr Péladan…)
Les démons
La science comme désenchantment/ enchantement
La magie de la technologie: la fée électricité….
L’inattendu
La poésie, la littérature comme alchemie
L’art de la Fantastique: Gustave Doré, James Ensor, Rops, Redon, Grandville…
L’illusion
Briser le quatrième mur : le théâtre
Hoffmann et son influence
Les forces de la nature.