Friday, October 17, 2008

Modernism and Unreadability in Lyon

Keynote speakers for the Modernism and Unreadability conference to be held in Lyon next week, October 23-25, include:  Charles Bernstein, Bonnie Costello, and Steven Gould Axelrod.  The Conference was jointly organised by Isabelle Alfandary, Axel Nesme, and Lacy Rumsey in a combined effort from Université Lyon 2 and the ENS-Lyon. 


OCTOBER 23, 2008
ENS LSH, rooms F 01 and F 08

9:00-10:00
Keynote lecture (ROOM F 08)
Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Recantorium (a bachelor machine, after Duchamp after Kafka).

10:00-10:15
BREAK

POETRY PANEL (I) (ROOM F 08)
Chair: Bonnie Costello

10:15-10:50
Antoine Cazé (University of Orléans)
Visible et Illisible chez HD
10:50-11:25
Abigail Lang (University of Paris VII)
“What syllables will flood utterance.”
Susan Howe and Dominique Fourcade.
11:25-12:00 pm
Penelope Sacks-Galey (University of Valenciennes)
Entropy and the Unreadable in Ron Silliman’s
The Age of Huts and Toner

12:00-2:00 pm
LUNCH

POETRY PANEL (II) (ROOM F 08)
Chair: Steven Gould Axelrod

2:00-2:35 pm
Rainer Emig (Leibniz University)
Unreadable, Unread, Unwanted:
Edith Sitwell’s Façade as a Challenge
to Modernism’s Norms of (Un-)Making Meaning
2:35-3:10 pm
Vincent Bucher (University of Paris III)
Should we read Louis Zukofsky’s ‘A’-9?
Reading, difficulty & illegibility

3:10-3:25 pm
BREAK

3:25-4:00 pm
Xavier Kalck (University of Paris IV)
Objectivist meditation: the silence of the unread child
in George Oppen’s poetry
4:00-4:35 pm
Amélie Ducroux (University of Lyon II)
“Fear in a mouthful of dust/” unreadability and The Waste Land

WOOLF/JOYCE PANEL (I) (ROOM F 01)
Chair: Josiane Paccaud-Huguet

2:00-2:35 pm
Chantal Delourme (University of Paris X)
Orlando : mises en jeu de l’illisible
2:35-3:10 pm
Geneviève Ducros (University of Bordeaux II)
The Waves : The Unreadable as the Inscription
of Feminine Desire

3:10-3:25 pm
BREAK

3:25-4:00 pm
Nicola Spunt (York University)
Ontotropology: Modern Disfigurations in Ulysses
4:00-4:35 pm
Anne Reynes-Delobel (University of Provence)
Unreadability in question(s): the reception of Finnegans Wake
in transition magazine (1927-1938)

6:00 pm (ENS LSH, Mezzanine)
RECEPTION


OCTOBER 24, 2008
ENS LSH, rooms F 01 and F 08

9:00-10:00
Keynote lecture (ROOM F 08)
Bonnie Costello (Boston University)
American Unreadability

10:00-10:15
BREAK

READING THE UNREADABLE (I) (ROOM F 08)
Chair: Christine Savinel

10:15-10:50
Bénédicte Gorrillot (University of Valenciennes)
L’Auteur Prigent, le directeur de TXT et le modernisme américain
10:50-11:25
Jacques Demarcq (Translator)
Cummings trois fois illisible
11:25-12:00 pm
Dominique Carlat (University of Lyon II)
Title to be specified
12:00-12:35 pm
Alice Béja (University of Paris III)
“Tell Us a Plain Straight Story !”
USA by John Dos Passos : an Unreadable Transparency ?

12:35-2:00 pm
LUNCH

POETRY PANEL (III) (ROOM F 08)
Chair: Antoine Cazé

2:00-2:35 pm
Christine Savinel (University of Paris III)
Late Unreadability: the Ethics of Solipsism and Solecism
in George Oppen’s Poetry
2:35-3:10 pm
Rise Axelrod (University of California at Riverside)
Adelaide Crapsey and the Power of the Unsaid

3:10-3:25 pm
BREAK

3:25-4:00 pm
Lisa Goldfarb (New York University, Gallatin School)
The Poetic Promise of Unreadable Moments: Wallace Stevens’ “Things of August”
4:00-4:35 pm
Christophe Lamiot (IUFM de Rouen)
“Laynie Browne’s ‘Original Presence,’ Her Book.”
4:35-5:10 pm
Jean-Charles Perquin (University of Lyon II)
On Browning’s “Sordello”

WOOLF/JOYCE PANEL (II) (ROOM F 01)
Chair: Rainer Emig

10:15-10:50
Josiane Paccaud-Huguet (University of Lyon II)
Is the unreadable enjoyable? The case of James Joyce
10:50-11:25
Marie-Dominique Garnier (University of Paris VIII)
“Finely Filiated Platinum:” Eliot, Joyce, Cixous or Ineligible Illegibility
11:25-12:00 pm
Marie-Jeanne Zenetti (University of Paris VIII)
An obtuse clarity : James Joyce’s Epiphanies
between over-readability and un-readability
12:00-12:35 pm
Monica Latham (University of Nancy 2)
Exploring the limits of unreadability:
Virginia Woolf’s Melymbrosia and The Voyage Out

12:35-2:00 pm
LUNCH

READING THE UNREADABLE (II) (ROOM F 01)
Chair: Marie-Dominique Garnier

2:00-2:35 pm
Vincent Broqua (University of Paris XII)
Illisible et répétition chez Stein et Beckett
2:35-3:10 pm
Noura Wedell ( ENS LSH)
Dire pour maldire (Beckett)

3:10-3:25 pm
BREAK

3:25-4:00 pm
Kumiko Kiuchi (University of Sussex)
Genres and Genealogy of the Unreadable in Beckett
4:00-4:35 pm
Samy Azouz (University of Paris XIII)
Baraka’s populist modernism
4:35-5:10 pm
Christine Reynier (University of Montpellier III)
What/How does the unreadable mean?: Unreadability
in Ford Madox Ford’s The Rash Act (1933)
5:10-5:45 pm
Anthony Larson (University of Rennes II)
The Aesthetic Monument, Readabililty, Experience (Stein)

EVENING: POETRY READING
Charles Bernstein, Jacques Demarcq
Jean-Marie Gleize, Christophe Lamiot

8:30 pm Conference Dinner Restaurant Le Sud


OCTOBER 25, 2008
Université Lyon 2, Amphithéâtre Benveniste,
7, rue Raulin 69007 Lyon

9:00-10:00
Keynote lecture
Steven Gould Axelrod (U.C. Riverside)
Reading the Unreadable: Stein to Cha

10:00-10:15
BREAK

READING THE UNREADABLE (III)
Chair: Lacy Rumsey

10:15-10:50
Philippe Wahl (University of Lyon II)
Beckett aporistique ? Stratégies interprétatives dansL’Innommable
10:50-11:25
Cornelius Crowley (University of Paris X)
Le paradigme de l’illisible textuel et son épuisement

11:25-11:40
BREAK

11:40-12:15 pm
Margaret Gillespie (University of Franche-Comté)
Djuna Barnes and the Illusion of Readability
12:15-12:50 pm
Mathieu Duplay (University of Lille III)
“At the Still Point:” Malcolm Lowry,
David Markson, et l’expérience de l’illisible
12:50-1:25 pm
Michael Schmidt (Wayne State University )
Belonging and Unreadability in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood


Links:
http://conferences.univ-lyon2.fr/index.php/Modernism/modern/schedConf/presentations
http://www.ens-lsh.fr/26093327/0/fiche___actualite/
http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article21293.php