Identity and Form in 20th and 21st Century Literature
3 - 4 July 2009
Conference programme
Friday 3 July 2009 |
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| 9.00 | Registration |
| 9.45 | Welcome |
| 10.00 | Plenary: Official Identity and Clandestine Experience Professor Thomas Docherty (Warwick University) Furnival-9130 |
| 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.15 | Parallel sessions |
| 12.35 | Lunch |
| 1.45 | Parallel sessions |
| 3.10 | Coffee |
| 3.30 | Parallel sessions |
| 4.30 | Break |
| 4.45 | Parallel sessions |
| 6.15 | End of day one |
| 6.45 | Reception (Millennium Galleries/Winter Garden) Reading: Marina Lewycka's first reading from her new novel, 'We Are Made of Glue' (published 2 July 2009) |
Saturday 4 July 2009 |
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| 9.00 | Registration |
| 9.30 | Plenary: Virginia's Sister: Identity, Metaphor and the Persistence of Disability Professor Stuart Murray (The University of Leeds) Furnival-9130 |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
| 12.45 | Lunch |
| 1.45 | Parallel sessions |
| 3.10 | Coffee |
| 3.30 | Parallel sessions |
| 5.00 | Closing remarks and end of conference |
Parallel sessions
Please note: All room locations are situated in the Furnival Building
Friday 3 July
Between 11.15 and 12.35pm |
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| London 9002 (Chair: Rebecca Mallett) |
Flouting Convention: Identity and Form in Bernardine Evaristo's 'Lara and The Emperor's Babe' KATHARINE BURKITT |
Narrating a Performed Identity and the Critique of Ethnicity in 'Londonstani' DAVE GUNNING |
Between Londinium and London: Narrative Form and Historical Intervention in 'The Emperor's Babe' CATHERINE OZMENT |
| Authorial absence 9003 (Chair: Harriet Tarlo) |
'The between of earth and sky': A World of Indifference in Jim Crace's 'Quarantine' |
The Pastoral in V.S. Naipaul's Fiction |
'Who am I? An obvious question for an orphan': From Identity Politics to Traumatic Authenticity in Jeanette Winterson's Oeuvre to Date |
| Autobiography and myth 9005 (Chair: Jonathan Ellis) |
Sally Morgan's 'My Place': Authenticity versus Assimilation |
The Graphic Novel as Memoir and Memorial |
Shape-Shifting: Forms and the Self in Automythography |
Between 1.45 and 3.10pm |
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Unstable Identities |
Irony and the Fallible Narrative in Rachel Cusk's 'Arlington Park' |
'I'm a shadow of my former self': The Quest for Identity and Its Literary Representation through Narrative Techniques in the Works of Kate Atkinson |
Robert Coover's Empty Core: Community and Identity in 'John's Wife' |
Alternative Forms |
McSweeney's and Identity Formation through Formal Cannivalization |
Beyond Literary and Cultural Studies. In Search of a New Paradigm |
'Narcissistic narratives': B.S. Johnson, a Case Study |
Sexuality and Gender |
'The Love that Will Not Shut Up': Queer Identity Politics in Will Self's 'Dorian: An Imitation' |
The Role of Jeanette Winterson's Sexual Identity in the Academic Reception of Her Work |
'Sometimes I look in the mirror and 'I 'don't recognize me': Feminist and Queer Identity in Neil Gaiman's 'A Game of You' |
Between 3.30 and 4.30pm |
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Fragmented Subjectivity |
The Urban Spatial Logic of John Self: Martin Amis's 'Money', National Identity, and Thatcher's London |
A.L. Kennedy on Form |
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Masculinities |
James Kelman's Textual Masculinities |
From the 'other side': the Rewriting of Lad Lit in Beryl Bainbridge's 'Sweet William' |
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Between 4.45 and 6.15pm |
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Myth and Rewriting 9002 |
Penelope's (Re)Identity: From Mythic to Contemporary Gaze |
Identification and Identity: Jonathan Coe's 'What a Carve Up!' and 'The House of Sleep' |
Identifying with the Dead: T.S. Eliot's Self Construction as Poet and Cultural Authority |
The Visual 9003 |
Identity, Aesthetics and the Visual Arts: Constructions of 'Self' in Selected Contemporary Art Novels |
A Portrait of the Artwork: Ekphrasis and Identity in 'What I Loved' |
Poetics of the Snapshot: W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice |
Saturday 4 July
Between 10.45 and 12.45pm |
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Poetic Forms |
'Co-opted and obliterated echo' - Formal Poetry and the Negotiation of Identities |
'Not yet not yet…': Forms of Defiance in Alice Oswald's Poetry |
Hybrid Identity in the Sonnet Form: Cullen and Millay's Cultural Engagement in the 1920s |
Personal Pronouns and Ambiguous Identity: CSI for the Contemporary Lyric |
Changing National Identities |
Sea Changes: Fluid Identities and Story Telling in Amitav Ghosh's 'Sea of Poppies' |
Life in the Contact Zone: Practising a Postcolonial National Identity |
The Pitfall of National Allegory in the 'Third-World' Literature: A Critique of National Identity in Salman Sushtid's 'Midnight's Children' |
Skin, Writing and Authenticity: Representations of Mixed-Race Subjectivity in F. Tennyson Jesse's 'The Lacquer Lady' and Ma Ma Lay's 'Not Out of Hate' |
Between 1.45 and 3.10pm |
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The Body |
Subject-Object Relations Manifest: Thing Theory and Byatt's 'Possession' |
Reading the Body: Michael Ondaatje and the Memory of Human Remains |
Writing the Self into Being: Illness and Identity in Inga Clendimen's 'Tiger's Eye' and Hilary Mantel's 'Giving Up the Ghost' |
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Kazuo Ishiguro |
Whart Remains: The Use of Silence in Dismantling Essentialist Notions of Identification and Nationalism in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day' |
The Impossibility of the Mother Quest in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'When We Were Orphans' |
Novel Encounters: The Convergence of the Postmodern and the Postcolonial |
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Between 3.30 and 5pm |
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The Author and Criticism |
Imaginative Identity in the Writing of John Cowper Powys's 'A Glastonbury Romance' |
Reflections on Affect and Authorial Identity in Angela Carter's 'feminist' Fiction |
The Time of our Singing: Biraciality and Musical Bifurcatoin in the Work of Richard Powers |
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Trauma |
'Strange, stranger, strangled': Wah and Sedwick's Bid to Un-Form, Reform, and Perform Identity through Generic Ambivalence |
Literature in Process: the Deluzian Textual Dynamics of Toby Litt's 'deadkidsongs' |
Identity, Trauma and Narrative Form in Anne Enright's 'The Gathering' |
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