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International Symposium
www.univ-angers.fr/lettres
Friday 8
Organisation
Michelle Ryan-Sautour (Université d’Angers)
et Ailsa Cox (Edge Hill University)
avec Pascale Denance, Morgane Jourdren,
Laurent Lepaludier et Karima Thomas.
Renseignements
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5bis boulevard Lavoisier | 49045 ANGERS cedex 01
Saturday 9 april 2011
Guests of Honour:
British Author: Toby Litt,
Short Story Theorist: Charles May
Friday 8th April
8.45
9.15
9.30
Registration
Introduction Plenary session: Charles E. May (Emeritus Professor of English at California State
University, Long Beach):“Why Many Authors Like Short Stories and Many
Readers Do Not” – Germaine Tillion Room
10.30
Coffee break
10.45-12.15 Opening Panel: Authorial Presence and Absence – Germaine Tillion Room
Chair: Linda Collinge (Université d’Angers)
10.45
Felicity Skelton (Sheffield Hallam University, UK): Echo Answers Back:
the Figure of the Author in the Stories of Ali Smith.
11.15
Brigitte Zaugg (Université Paul Verlaine - Metz): Playing Hide and Seek with the Reader:
Ellen Glasgow’s Authorial Game in “Dare’s Gift” and “Jordan’s End”
11.45
Carole Anne Taylor (Bates College, U.S.A.): “We Who Stay in Omelas”: Ordinary Pathologies of the Counterfactual Author
12.15-2.00 Lunch
2.00-4.45 2.00
2.30
3.00
Workshops
Panel A: Gender and the Authorial Figure – Julien Gracq Room
Chair: Emmanuel Vernadakis (Université d’Angers)
Pascale Denance (Université d’Angers): The Implied Author in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
Stephanie Eggermont (University of Louvain, Belgium): Gender and Authorship
in the Short Fiction of Netta Syrett
Karima Thomas (Université d’Angers): The Authorial Figure in Carter’s
a “Victorian Fable (with Glossary)”
2.00 2.30
3.00 Panel B: Writing the Authorial Self – Frida Kahlo Room
Chair: Felicity Skelton (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Diana Barsham (University of Chichester, UK): From Trance to Translation:
Tropes of the Author-Figure and the Temptations of Auto/biography in Ted Walker
Emilie Péneau (University College Cork, Ireland): “Because I Am a Writer, I Get to
Put It in a Story”: The Paradoxes of Autobiography in Atwood’s Short Fiction
Krystyna Stamirowska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland): The Figure of the Author
in the Early Short Stories by B.S.Johnson
3.30 Coffee break
3.45 4.15 Panel A: Textual Imprints of the Author – Julien Gracq Room
Chair: Diana Barsham (University of Chichester, UK)
Iulia Alina Mocanu (Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi, Romania):
Authorial Hallmarks in John Fowles’ Short Stories
Vahideh Sayedi (Ferdowsi University of Mashad, Iran): “Admitted the Caller”:
The Author/Hunter/Ghost/Guest/Host in Quest of a Snipe in H. H. Munro’s “The Open Window”
3.45
4.15 Panel B: Author as Practice – Frida Kahlo Room
Chair: Ailsa Cox (Edge Hill University, UK)
Derek Neale (The Open University, UK): Short Stories in the Academy: Mimesis,
Diegesis and the Role of Drama.
John Patrick Pazdziora (University of St Andrews, Scotland): Feather Coats and Fancy:
The Role of the Author in the Fairy Tale
4:45
Break
5.00-6.00
Round Table Discussion: The Living Author – Germaine Tillion Room
Preliminary talk: J.R. (Tim) Struthers, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada:
“By Design and By Language: The Interviewer as Author”
Round Table Participants: J.R. (Tim) Struthers, Ailsa Cox, Toby Litt
6:15 Departure for Restaurant: LES CAVES DE LA GENEVRAIE : http://genevraie.troglodyte.info
Saturday 9th April
9.15-10:00 Plenary session: Laurent Lepaludier (Université d’Angers): Germaine Tillion Room
Voyeur, sponger, flâneur, etc.: the Figures of the Author and Strategies of Displacement
and Disfigurement in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories”
10.00-12.15 Workshops
Panel A: The Author in the Story – Julien Gracq Room
Chair: Ailsa Cox
10.00 Ailsa Cox (Edge Hill University, UK): Dead Authors, Live Readers: Helen Simpson’s
“The Festival of the Immortals’”
10.30 Elke D’hoker (University of Leuven, Belgium): Divergent Figures of the Author in Mary
Lavin’s Short Fiction
10.00 10.30
Panel B: Constructions of the Author Beyond Text? – Frida Kahlo Room
Chair: Pascale Denance (Université d’Angers)
Michelle Ryan Sautour (Université d’Angers): Angela Carter as Fiction
Cécile Chartier (Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle): ‘Is There an Author in this Short-Story?’ How Personal and Collective Agendas Can Shape the Authorial Figure: the Example
of Fitz-James O’Brien
11.00 Coffee break
11.15 11.45 Panel A: Author and the Telling of Tales – Julien Gracq Room
Chair: Lauric Guillaud (Université d’Angers)
Annie Birks (Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers): Authorial Presence in J.R.R.
Tolkien’s Minor Fiction
Larisa Prokhorova (Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia):
Author Manifestations in Pourquoi Tales by Rudyard Kipling
11.15 11:45 Panel B: Authorial Antagonism – Frida Kahlo Room
Chair: Elke D’hoker (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Charles Holdefer (Université de Poitiers): Still Kicking: George Saunders and “Moral Realism”
Gérald Préher (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines): Turning the Self into Fiction: Reynolds Price’s Early Stories
12.15-2.00 Lunch
Saturday afternoon
2.00-3.30 3.30-3.45 4.30-6.30 Toby Litt: reading by the author and interview – Germaine Tillion Room
Closing Remarks
Tour of Angers