Registration is now open for the following Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology, University of Hambourg:
Fictionality, Factuality, Reflexivity
A Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology
University of Hamburg, 25-26 September 2015
FRIDAY 25 Sept. 2015
9:30 Welcome and Introduction: Setting the Scene - Erika Fülöp (University of Hamburg - University of Lancaster)
10:00 Keynote 1: Barry Sandywell (University of York), Narrative Desire and the Reflexive Imperative: Toward a Reflexive Narratology
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Session 1: Fiction(s) across Fields
1. Pierre Cassou-Noguès (University of Paris 8), Postmodern Fables: Correlationism and fiction
2. Johannes Franzen (University of Freiburg), The Dangers of Literary Invention: Contemporary Criticism of Fictionality
3. Divya Dwivedi (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), The Author-Function and the Aesthesis of Self-reflexivity: Binet, Kundera, Barthes
4. Milosz Wojtyna (University of Gdansk), Narrative, Rhetoric and the Construction of Fictional Truth
13:15 Lunch
14:15 Parallel Session 2A: Concepts across Cultures
5. Michal Beth Dinkler (Yale Divinity School), Reflecting on the Rhetoric of Reflexivity: Ancient Narrative Representations of Reading
6. Robert F. Wittkamp (Kansai University Suita/Osaka), Fictionality in Medieval Japanese Monogatari-Literature
7. Margarita Vaysman (University of Oxford), Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Metafiction: Narrative Self- Consciousness in Russian Novels of the 1860s
8. Katalin Kroó (Eötvös Lóránd University Budapest), Self-referentiality in the Context of the Intertextual Poetics of Factuality and Fictionality in 19th-Century and Contemporary Literature
Parallel Session 2B: Theorizing Practice(s) (1)
9. Eszter Horváth (Univeristy of Paris 8 and Eötvös Lóránd University), Realism, Our Mythology
10. Vera Toro (University of Bremen), Telling and Showing Testimony in "Prenatal Metanovels" ? Luis Fayad's Testamento de un hombre de negocios (Colombia, 2004) and Fernando Aramburu's Años lentos (Spain, 2012).
11. André Schwarck (University of Kiel), Factuality seeking Fiction: Dave Eggers' Aesthetics of Heartbreaking Non-Fiction
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Parallel Session 3A: On Distinctions: Genres, Discourses, Modes
12. Alina Buzatu (Ovidius University Constanta), Genres: the (Self~/Hetero~)referential Contract. A Sociocognitive Approach
13. Mary Harrod (University of Warwick), Cine-filles: Generic Reflexivity and Contemporary Popular Women's Filmmaking
14. Emmanuel Plasseraud (University of Bordeaux Montaigne), What Do Mirrors Make Cinema Think About?
Parallel Session 3B: The Power of the Real, the Power of Fiction
15. Jobst Welge (University of Konstanz), Historical Reference and Self-Reflection in Recent Latin American Fiction
16. Lucy O'Meara (University of Kent), Amélie Nothomb writes "Amélie Nothomb": Reflexivity and Auteurism
17. Françoise Lavocat (University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle), Portals of Fiction
18:15 Keynote 2: Graham Priest (CUNY Graduate Center), A Logue
19:30 Dinner (Restaurant Brodersen)
SATURDAY 26 Sept. 2015
10:00 Parallel Session 4A: Theorizing Practice(s) (2)
18. Lukas Hoffmann (Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg), Fictionalized Fact and Factualized Fiction: David Foster Wallace's "Octet"
19. Fátima Chinita (Lisbon Higher Polytechnic), In-between the Factual and the Fictional: Self-Representation and Hybridization in the Film Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988)
20. Nora Berning (University of Giessen), Hybrid Generic Framing in Contemporary French Literature: The Role of Reflexivity in the Framing System of Delphine de Vigan's Novel Nothing Holds Back the Night (2014)
21. Mathias Kusnierz (Paris Diderot University), Does the reflexivity of Hollywood cinema influence the real? Ideological Productivity and Value of the Pictures in American Blockbusters
Parallel Session 4B: Theorizing Practice(s) (3)
22. Stephanie Neu (University of Mannheim), "I know what I'm talking about": Authorial Self-reflexivity in Contemporary Italian "hybrid" Narratives about Colonialism and Racism
23. Vesna Elez (University of Belgrade), Confessing and Doubting: First-Person Narrative in Flaubert's "November" and Tolstoy's "A Confession"
24. Mari Hatavara (University of Tampere), Reflecting Past, Writing History in Historiographic Metafiction
25. Henriette Korthals Altes (University of Oxford), Writing and Un-writing History: Modiano, Self-reflexivity and the Archive
12:00 Coffee break
12:15 Session 5: Rethinking Binaries
26. Richard Saint-Gelais (Laval University), Pseudo-nonfictionality and the Fictionalization of Reflexivity
27. Frédéric Berland (Khagne, Saint-Denis), Dialetheism in Fiction and Polytheism of Imagination
28. Dominic Smith (University of Dundee), Paying Attention: Philosophy as Strong Therapy for the Information Age
13:45 Lunch
14:45 Session 6: Questions of Interpretation
29. Maureen Eckert (UMASS Dartmouth), Literary Space and the Bounds of Inconsistency
30. Nathan Wildman (University of Hamburg), Impossible Fictions
31. Laura Lucia Rossi (University of Leeds), Reflexivity's Techniques and Indeterminacy within a Fictional Text
32. Tobias Klauk & Tilmann Köppe (University of Göttingen), Who is Talking? The Case of Metaleptic Fiction
16:45 Coffee break
17:15 Keynote 3: Frank Zipfel (University of Mainz), Metafictional Elements in Fictional Narration: A Challenge for an Institutional Theory of Fiction?
18:15 Closing remarks & end
To register, please download the registation form from the conference website, complete and return it to the organizer, Erika Fülöp at erika.fulop@uni-hamburg.de.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact her at the same address.