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Narratological Readings in the Nabokov House (Saint-Pétersbourg)

Narratological Readings in the Nabokov House (Saint-Pétersbourg)

Publié le par Université de Lausanne (Source : John Pier)

Narratological Readings in the Nabokov House

Saint Petersburg

December 12-13, 2019

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DESCRIPTION :

The year 2019 is significant for specialists in the field of narratology as well as for those who study Vladimir Nabokov’s legacy. Above all, this year marks 50 years since the birth of narratology as a science in its own right. In 1969 Tzvetan Todorov, in Grammaire du Décaméron, coined a new term for a discipline for the study the of the structure of narrative texts. Narratology in the 1960s, observing that “the narratives of the world are numberless,” aspired to identify a “narrative model” that structurally conditions all possibilities of narrative expression (R. Barthes). After a half century, narrative studies, extending far beyond structural analysis, encompass the widest modes for studying narratives of numerous kinds and is has acquired the scope of an interdisciplinary paradigm. Furthermore, the ever-multiplying multidirectional approaches to studying narratives raise the question as to the necessity of integrating various practices of narrative study. In such a lens, the opportunity to study the links between the “European” and Russian narratological traditions is of special interest.

In addition, 2019 is an important anniversary for Nabokov specialists. This year, the writer would have been 120 years old. Furthermore, this year commemorates the hundredth anniversary of Nabokov’s emigration. 2019 also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Nabokov’s major novel, Ada. Nabokov’s artistic method is a unique area for narratological studies as it allows for a reevaluation, in the analytical-diachronic perspective, of several fundamental narrative categories such as unreliable narration, point of view, mise en abyme, metalepsis, fictionality, and others. It is the aim of the conference to address narratological problems in a new light and at the same time to serve as a starting place for further research in the area of narratology and Nabokov studies.

Narratological Readings in the Nabokov House will seek to study a broad range of problems connected with the adoption and realization of classical and post-classical narratology studies in Russia, and at the same time with studying Nabokov’s poetics in a narratological perspective. Specialists in the field of narratology and those involved in studying Nabokov’s legacy are cordially invited to participate in the conference.

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THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE PROPOSED FOR DISCUSSION:

— Nabokov’s poetics in the narratological perspective;

— reception of narratology in Russia;

— narrative mapping: similarities and differences of narratological terms;

— narratology and the legacy of Bakhtin;

— narratology from a diachronic perspective;

— unreliable narration in Nabokov’s poetics;

— point of view in Nabokov’s poetics;

— narrative strategies in the poetics of Nabokov;

— Nabokov’s poetics and the theory of fictional narrative.

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COORDINATORS

 

•        Andrei Astvatsaturov (SPbU, Saint-Petersburg)

•        Larisa Muraveva (SPbU, Saint-Petersburg)

•        Valery Timofeev (SPbU, Saint-Petersburg)

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

•        Lyubov Bugaeva (Dr., Associate Professor SPbU, Saint-Petersburg)

•        Fedor Dvinyatin (Dr., Associate Professor, SPbU, Saint-Petersburg) 

•        John Pier (Dr., Professor emeritus Université de Tours and CRAL, EHESS, Paris)

•        Valery Timofeev (Dr., Associate Professor, SPbU, Saint-Petersburg)

•        Valery Tyupa (Dr., Professor RSUH, Moscow)

•        Wolf Schmid (Dr., Professor emerita University of Hamburg, Germany)

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WORKING LANGUAGES OF THE CONFERENCE

Russian, English

Conference dates: 12-13 December 2019

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APPLICATION DEADLIN

Please send applications (indicating the topic of the presentation in Russian and English, affiliation, position, and academic title) by November 20, 2019 to

•        Larisa Muraveva l.muravieva@spbu.ru 

•        Valery Timofeev vg@smolny.org ; abvg@bk.ru