The Novel: Democracy S Form

THE NOVEL: DEMOCRACY’S FORM?

University of Sussex; April 13th/14th 2007.

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Organisers: Dr Cathy Bergin, Dr Patricia McManus, Dr Theodore Koulouris

Day 1: Friday April 13th, 2007.

8.30 – 9.30am

Registration & Tea/Coffee Service

9.30-11am

Introductory

Margaret Doody, ‘The Novel; Whose Form?’

11-1 (Parallel Panels)

Panel A: Necessary Structures: Time, Place, Identity

Lead Speaker - Michael Levenson (Virginia), ‘Telling Time’.

Jenni Lehtinen (Oxford), ‘The Vertical Chronotope as a Schematic Model for the Modern Spanish-American Novel’.

Emma Smith (Leeds), ‘ ‘A Democracy of Voice’? Communal Narration in Ali Smith’s Hotel World’.

Panel B: Subject to Others: Canons and Marginalities

Lead Speaker - Lawrence Rainey (York), ‘Office Politics: The Modern Heroine’ (tbc)

Denise De Caires Narain (Sussex), ‘Writing this impossible Story: Postcolonial Women’s Writing and the Novel’.

Sharon Murphy (Trinity, Dublin), ‘Imperial Reading? East India Company Soldiers and the Novel between 1820 and 1834’

1-2pm;

Lunch

2-3.30pm (Parallel Panels)

Panel C: Reading Strategies: Economies, States, Aesthetics

Lead Speaker - Richard Godden (Sussex), ‘William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words’

Marina McKay (Washington, St Louis), ‘The Novel and the State of Exception’

Franz Kroenig (Flensburg), ‘From Kant to a new Theory of the Novel’

Panel D: Narrative Communities; Addressing Publics

Lead Speaker - Tom Hickey (Brighton)

Daniel Hack (SUNY), ‘Unimagined Communities: The African-Americanization of Bleak House’.

Patricia McManus (Sussex/Brighton), ‘Making a Public; the Social Meanings of Narrative Styles’.

3.30-4pm

Tea/Coffee Break

4-5.30pm (Parallel Panels)

Panel E: The Novel in the World: Class and Conflict

Kalinda Ashton (RMIT Melbourne), ‘ ‘Pick a Side and Stick to it?’ Dialectical Representations of Class and history’

Anne Kastner (Glasgow), ‘Pegasus in Harness: The 1840s Working-Class Novel, Chartism and Counter-Insurgency’.

Cathy Bergin (Brighton/Sussex), Title TBC

Panel F: Democracy in the Novel

Farzad Boobani (Guilan, Iran), ‘The Democratic Imagination: Bakhtin, Joyce and the Carnivalesque’.

Gary Wihl (Rice, Houston), ‘Romola as a Critique of Victorian Democratic Reform’.

Theodore Koulouris (Sussex), ‘Falling Apart at the Seams; Solidarity and Detachment in the Contemporary Novel’.

5.45pm

Discussion Forum

Warwick Research Collective (Neil Lazarus, Benita Parry, Stephen Shapiro, Nick Lawrence, Pablo Mukherjee, Rashmi Varma, Graeme Macdonald),

‘What is a “Global Novel”? Peripheral Modernism and Third World Aesthetics’.

Day 2: Saturday April 14th, 2007.

9-9.30am

Late Registration

9.30-11.30am

Plenary: Questions of History and Form

Declan Kiberd, ‘Ulysses and the Narratives of Myth’ (TBC)

Alex Callinicos (King’s College London), ‘History after the End of History’.

11.30-12pm

Tea/Coffee Break

12-1.30pm (Parallel Panels)

Panel G: Interpretations and Methodologies

Lead Speaker – TBC

Ben de Bruyn (KULeuven, Belgium), ‘The Implied Democracy. The Genealogies and Anthropologies of the Modern Novel in Booth and Iser’.

Christina Britzolakis (Warwick), ‘World Cities and World Novels: Cosmopolitanism and the Modernist Reinvention of the Everyday’.

Panel H: The ‘Historical Burdens of the Novel’: Nations and Subjectivities

Lead Speaker - Abdulrazak Gurnah (Kent) ), ‘”Flight!”:George Lamming’s Novels of Migration’

Piret Peiker (Tallinn, Estonia), ‘Postcolonial Bildungsroman’.

Urbashi Barat (Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur), ‘Location, Dislocation and the Counter-Narrative of the Nation: Interrogating India In/Dia/Spora in Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide’.

1.30-2.30pm

Lunch

2.30pm (Parallel Panels)

Panel I: History: Periodisation, Continuities, Breaks

Lead Speaker - Massimo Fusillo (L'Aquila), ‘Petronius and the Contemporary New Picaresque Novel: Problems of Genealogy and Genre’.

Koen De Temmerman (Stanford), ‘The First European Novel? Realistic Character Construction as the Hallmark of the Novelistic Genre’.

Violetta Trofimova (St Petersburg) ‘Women Writers and the Rise of the Novel in Seventeenth-Century Europe’.

Panel J: Theories and Epistemologies: What Good is the Novel?

Lead Speaker - Patricia Waugh (Durham), ‘Surviving/survival Stories: Do we need an Evolutionary Theory of the Novel?’

Vanessa Ryan (Harvard), ‘ “Is There a Mind in the Text?” From George Eliot’s Fiction to James Sully’s Psychology’.

Vybarr Cregan-Reid (Kent), ‘Origins and Endings: Dickens, Eliot, James and the Politics of Narrative’.

5-5.15pm

Tea/Coffee Break

5.15-6.30pm

Closing Forum

Nancy Armstrong (Brown, Rhode Island), ‘Gender Must be Defended’.