Victorian Persistence Seminar, session 27: “Ghosts from Wonderland: Jeanette Winterson’s Gut Symmetries and the Visual Pragmatics of Intertextuality.”

The next session of our seminar will take place on Wednesday 11th June 2014 at the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 (Salle 265E, Halle aux Farines, 17h30-19h30).

Diane Leblond (Université Paris Diderot) will give a paper entitled “Ghosts from Wonderland: Jeanette Winterson’s Gut Symmetries and the Visual Pragmatics of Intertextuality.” Her respondent will be Pr. Jean-Jacques Lecercle (Université Paris X – Nanterre).

We will work with the following texts, which can be found on our blog (http://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/):

- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). 

- Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) (London: Macmillan, 1876). 

- Jean-Jacques Lecercle, “Mais qu’apprend donc Alice?”, conférence Symposium international “A VOYAGE TOWARDS WORDS”. Representing the Sensations of Early Childhood and the Acquisition of Language, 14 décembre 2013, (Université Paris X – Nanterre). 

- Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Interpretation as Pragmatics (London: MacMillan, 1999). 

The seminar will be held at the following address: Salle 265E, Halle aux Farines, Hall E, accès 9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet 75013 Paris ou 10 rue Françoise Dolto 75013 Paris.Transports: Métro ligne 14 ou RER C, arrêt “Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand.” Tramway T3, arrêt “Avenue de France.”

All are welcome!