Writers as Critics
The Franke Institute for the Humanities, October 10-11
Friday, October 10, 2014
9:00-9:30 AM -- BREAKFAST
9:30-9:45 AM -- OPENING REMARKS
Isabelle Daunais (McGill University) Daniel Desormeaux (University of Chicago) Thomas Pavel (University of Chicago)
10:00 AM-12:00 PM -- PANEL I: WRITERS IN THEIR TIME
10:00-10:30: Robert Morrissey (University of Chicago) “Mme de Staël, Literary Critic”
10:30-11:00: Isabelle Daunais (McGill University) “La possibilité de ne pas être contemporain”
11:00 – 11:30: Daniel Desormeaux (University of Chicago)
“Alexandre Dumas, théoricien de la dérive narrative”
11:30 AM-12:30 PM DISCUSSION 12:30-2:00 PM LUNCH
2:30-5:00 PM -- PANEL II: THEORY AND PRACTICE
2:30-3:00: Daisy Delogu (University of Chicago) “Theory and Practice of Poetry in the Later Middle Ages”
3:00-3:30: Frederick de Armas (University of Chicago) “Banished from Parnassus: Cervantes as Saturnine Artist, Writer and Critic”
3:30-4:00: Sascha Ebeling (University of Chicago) “The Emergence of the Novel in India as a Meta-Poetic turn”
4:00-5:00 PM DISCUSSION 5:00PM – COCKTAIL
Saturday, October 11, 2014
9:00-9:30 AM -- BREAKFAST
9:30AM-12:30PM -- PANEL III: DEBATES AND POLEMICS
9:30-10:00: M. Biron (McGill University) “Gide et Bakhtine, lecteurs de Dostoïevski”
10:00-10:30: Massimo Rizzante (University of Trento) “Romain Gary or Sganarelle against everybody”
10:30-11:00: Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago) “Max Jacob: Criticism as Revenge”
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM - DISCUSSION 12:00 PM-1:30 PM – LUNCH
1:30-3:00 PM -- PANEL IV: REFLECTIVE WRITERS
1:30-2:00: Arnold Rampersad (Stanford University) “Langston Hughes and the Challenges of Populist Art”
2:00-2:30: Thomas Pavel (University of Chicago) “Between Robert Penn Warren and Richard Wright”
3:15 PM-3:30 PM – COFFEE BREAK
3:30-5:00 PM -- PANEL V: HENRY JAMES, LITERARY CRITIC
3:30 – 4:00: Paolo Tortonese (Université of Paris III) “French Dullness: Henry James on Zola”
4:00 – 4:30: Kenneth Warren (University of Chicago) “From Henry James to Richard Wright”
4:30-5:30 PM- DISCUSSION 5:30PM – RECEPTION
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Deborah Blumenthal
Program Assistant
Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Chicago
773.702.8481