Oxford University French Postgraduate Conference "Metamorphosis"
Date: Friday 27 Jan 2012 - 14:00 to Saturday 28 Jan 2012 - 18:00
Place: Maison Française d'Oxford
Topic: Literature
FRIDAY 27th JANUARY
2.15-3.15 Keynote
Claudine Nédelec (Université d'Artois): "Prendre tant de peine à défigurer: les métamorphoses burlesques"
Chair: Alain Viala
3.15-4.45 Panel 1: Rewriting of Myth Chair: Jennifer Oliver (University of Oxford)
Nathalie de Brézé (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1): "Variations autour d'une métamorphose d'Ovide: le mythe d'Amphitryon selon Molière et Giraudoux"
Chiaria Mainardi (University of Turin): "Theseus in L'Antiope by Guérin de Bouscal"
Alina-Daniela Rey-Gorez (Univeristé Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Université de Bucarest): "Les métamorphoses textuelles du mythe de Narcisse chez Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun et Evrart de Conty: mise en abîme, parodie et intertextualité"
5-6.30 FILM – La Belle et la bête, Jean Cocteau
SATURDAY 28th JANUARY
9-10 Keynote
Nikolaj Lübecker (University of Oxford): "On the transformative power of the Feel-Bad film"
Chair: Kate Tunstall (University of Oxford)
10-11.30 Panel Two: The power of images Chair: Victoria Weavil (University of Oxford)
Amelia Jackson (Queen Mary, University of London): "Appolo on an armoire: the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses on the furniture of André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732)"
Katherine Marsaili McLelland (University of Edinburgh): "Metamorphosis through stillness: André Breton's Nadja and the transformation of textual content through photographic illustration"
Marin Hirschfeld (University of Oxford): "Houellebecq's Les particules élémentaires and Roehler's Elementarteilchen: Transnational Film Adaptation as Contemporary Metamorphosis"
11.45-1.15 Panel Three: Transforming and transporting Chair: Ruth Bush (University of Oxford)
Catherine Burke (University of College Cork): "Nothing endures but change": Twentieth-century responses to Homer's Iliad"
Ashley Riggs (University of Geneva): "Contemporary Rewritings of Fairy Tales in Translation: A Triple Metamorphosis"
Kathleen Hamel (University College Cork): "'Iamque opus exegi': the survival of Ovid's epilogue in the late twentieth-century fiction of Kristeva Darrieussecq"
2.15-3.15 Keynote
Caroline Warman (University of Oxford): "Jostled by another horse: fear and exhilaration in narratives of materialist transformation"
Chair: Stephen Goddard (University of Oxford)
3.45-5.15 Panel Four: Identity Chair: Paul Earlie (University of Oxford)
Pauline Moret Patiño (Durham University): "Métamorphoses du visage dans À la recherche du temps perdu : corps et identité chez Proust"
Xiaofan Amy Li (University of Cambridge): "From transformation to transformation: the animal and the human in Henri Michaux"
Philippa Lewis (University of Cambridge): "Criticism as metamorphosis in nineteenth-century French literary culture: Baudelaire and Sainte-Beuve"
