L'Essai moderne en français : sociologie, genre, écriture
Lancaster University
13-14-15 September 2001
Conference Programme (provisional)
All papers will be given in the Conference Centre (located between Lonsdale College and Bowland College). The entrance to the Conference Centre is situated on the North Spine, opposite the entrance to the Faraday Building. A campus map can be found at
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/travel/campusmap.htm
Thursday 13 September
1.30 Welcome by David Whitton (Professor of French Theatre, Dean of Arts and Humanities Faculty, Lancaster University)
1.45 Professor Peter France (Edinburgh) - 'The Anglophone and Francophone Tradition of the Essay'
2.45 Parallel sessions
A) 'Performance'
B) 'Art and music'
Robert Crawshaw (Lancaster) - 'Le paradoxe de Prométhée : autonomie et rhétorique dans L'Ordre du discours de Michel Foucault'
Pat Crowley (Cork) - 'Fleeing the Net of Genre: Self-Performance and the Play of Genre in Three "Essays" by Pierre Michon' Claude Coste (Caen) -'Pascal Quignard : essais sur la musique'
Jacques Dürrenmatt (Paris VII) - 'Du rôle des notes dans l'essai : l'exemple de L'Histoire de la Peinture en Italie de Stendhal'
4.00-4.30 - Tea
4.30 Parallel sessions
A) 'Performance'
B) 'Art and music'
Rodolphe Dalle (Brest) - 'L'écriture de l'essai dans l'oeuvre de Bernard Noël'
Kuisma Korhonen (Helsinki) - 'Crisis of Prose: ethics of the Mallarmean essay' Andy Tate (Lancaster) - 'Ruskin and Proust'
Toby Garfitt (Oxford) - '"Ceci sort du cadre limité de l'essai". Jean Grenier and the essay as art form'
6.00 Vin d'honneur
8.00 Evening meal
Friday 14 September
9.00 Dominique Combe (Paris III) - 'Poème/essai'
10.00 Parallel sessions
A) Genre
B) Nation/innovation
Jérôme Roger (Bordeaux) - 'La poétique de l'essai chez Henri Michaux'
Marielle Macé (Paris IV) - 'Segalen essayiste: une catégorie générique troublée' Dave Murphy (Stirling) 'The Power of Reason: Universality and Truth in the Anti-colonial essay'
Martin Munro (Cork) - 'Césaire's Discours sur le colonialisme: the essay as political prophecy'
11.15-11.45 - Tea
11.45 Parallel sessions
A) Genre
B) Nation/innovation
Anne Freadman (Queensland)- '"Je ne sais pas de contes": devices of generic self-situation in the essays of Colette'
Dominique Gournay (Calais) - 'Singulier et Pluriels: les essais de Jean Grenier' François Dumont (Laval) - 'L'essai à rebours dans l'historiographie littéraire québécoise'
Françoise Naudillon (Concordia) - 'Essai francophone - mythes et réalités'
1.00-2.00 - Lunch in Lonsdale Senior Common Room
2.00 Michel Pierssens (Montréal) - 'Le Scientisme des littéraires'
3.00-3.30 - Tea
3.30 Parallel sessions
A) Genre
B) Nation/innovation
Anne-Elisabeth Halpern (Rheims) - 'L'impossible Essai d'Artaud'
Fui Lee Luk (Paris III/Sydney) - 'The role of the Journal intime in Michel Tournier's essays'
Irène Langlet (Rennes) - 'L'essai français au XXe siècle : quelques enjeux du recueil' François-Emmanuel Boucher (McGill) - 'L'extension du mal : Chute du Mur de Berlin, mondialisation et apocalypse'
Amrani Mehana (Sétif) - 'L'essai chez Mostefa Lacheraf: entre la perfection formelle et l'impératif socio-politique'
Christine Margerrison (Lancaster) - 'Camus, Algeria, Essay'
8.00 - Conference Dinner
Saturday 15 September
9.30 Parallel sessions
A) Cinematic essay
B) Writing lives
Michael Temple (Birkbeck) - 'Filmic essayist: Jean-Luc Godard'
Keith Reader (Glasgow) - 'Theological essay in the cinema of Robert Bresson' Mar Garcia (Barcelona) 'Ethnofictions: ethnographie, narrativité et fiction chez Marc Augé'
Sonia Lee (Trinity, Hartford) - 'African Women writers and the essay in French'
Aedin ni Loingsigh (Maynooth) - '"Vie et moeurs" of Pius Ngandu Nkashama'
11.15-11.45 - Tea
11.45 Michael Sheringham (Royal Holloway) - 'Essaying the Everyday'
1.00 Conference Close
For colleagues and friends wishing to stay Saturday night, a number of activities have been planned:
Saturday afternoon
Visit to John Ruskin's house and museum at Brantwood, on Coniston Lake Bus Departure: 2.30 Return (approx): 6.00
Cost: £10
Saturday evening
8.00 - Meal in a restaurant in Lancaster city centre.
Cost: £15 (approx)
Pour toute information, veuillez envoyer un e-mail à: essai@lancaster.ac.uk
For further information, please e-mail: essai@lancaster.ac.uk
Lancaster University Dept. of European Languages & Cultures