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LEGENDA
Reading and Writing Myth
UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER
15-18 JULY 1998
PROGRAMME
DAY 1 -- WEDNESDAY, 15 JULY
12.00-14.00: Registration
14.00-14.15: Welcome - PETER FRANCE, President, BCLA
14.15-15.15: Plenary Lecture - GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI: A tale of a heel and a hip.
15.15-15.45: Tea
15.45-17.15: PAPERS - SESSION 1
- PANEL 1: GENDERS - DESIRE AND DEATH (SEMINAR 1, GEORGE FOX)
- (15.45-16.15) MERRILL COLE: Mythological desire and the male lesbian: Reading Baudelaire's "Femmes damnées".
- (16.15-16.45) LUDMILLA EVITMOVA and GLYN HAMBROOK: "Synecdoques sinistres et métonymies mortelles": A revisitation of the image of the femme fatale in European Symbolist literature.
- (16.45-17.15) FRANCES BABBAGE: Fatal attraction: The rusalka reborn in Zinaida Gippius' Sacred Blood.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - QUESTS (SEMINAR 2, GEORGE FOX)
- (15.45-16.15) LITSA TRAYIANNOUDI: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude and Wallace Stevens' The Comedia as the Letter C: The quest as a "mythology of self".
- (16.15-16.45) ALEXANDRA HENDRIOK: Frank McCourt and the circular quest for deliverance: America revisited.
- (16.45-17.15) ANITA KLUJBER: Recontextualisation of the mythological quest in Edgar Allan Poe's The Man of the Crowd.
- PANEL 3: CIVILIZATIONS - UTOPIAS (SEMINAR 3, GEORGE FOX)
- (15.45-16.15) CHRISTOPHER GRABOWSKI: J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth: from a mythology for England to a recovery of the real Earth.
- (16.15-16.45) HÉLÈNE GREVEN: Fall and rebirth: Myth as structure and imagery in twentieth-century utopian/dystopian fiction.
- (16.45-17.15) ROLF J. GOEBEL: Benjamin in Tokyo: Urban modernity and the myth of bureaucratic power.
- PANEL 4: RE-WRITINGS - RE-WRITING THEORY I (SEMINAR 4, GEORGE FOX)
- (15.45-16.15) BRIAN GRAHAM: Mythology today.
- (16.15-16.45) ANDY STAFFORD: Phenomenon or myth? Roland Barthes and the dialectics of criticism.
- (16.45-17.15) JUTTA BRAIDT: Romantic parabasis: Wordsworth, Friedrich Schlegel and the disfiguration of reading "what is to be read".
- PANEL 4: RE-WRITINGS - FROM "LEGEND" TO "NARRATIVE"
- (15.45-16.15) CAROLINE: The spinster tale-teller in the Victorian marketplace: Anne Thackeray's revisionary fairy tales for the Cornhill Magazine.
- (16.15-16.45) MATTHEW KIBBLE: Fantasies of origin: H. D. (Hilda Dolittle) and matriarchy.
- (16.45-17.15) DIMITRA PAPAZOGLOU: Greek myths in the early short stories of E.M. Forster.
- PANEL 5: IDENTITIES - HERO-MAKING (SEMINAR 5, GEORGE FOX)
- (15.45-16.15) CAROLINE HOFFMANN: A journey through narrative valleys: The writing and rewriting of heroic myth in Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time.
- (16.15-16.45) THALIA PAPADOPOULOU: Exploring limits in Euripides' Heracles and in Seneca's Hercules Furens.
- (16.45-17.15) SIV JANSSON: Heroic myth in writing for children.
17.15-17.45: Interval (Late registrations and a chance to freshen up before dinner)
17.45-18.45: Plenary Lecture - PIERO BOITANI: Ulysses towards 2001.
18.45-20.30: Conference Dinner
20.30-22.30: Translation Competition Awards and Readings (+ Wine)
DAY 2 -- THURSDAY, 16 JULY
8.00-9.00: Breakfast
9.00-10.00: PAPERS - SESSION 2
- PANEL 1: GENDERS - RE-WRITING VIOLENCE (SEMINAR 1, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) GRAHAM SAUNDERS: "The elusive Mrs Lear": Howard Barker's Seven Lears.
- (9.30-10.00) AMBER JACOBS: The desires of Orestes: Matricide - severance - deliverance.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - APOCALYPSES I (SEMINAR 2, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) SIAM BHAYRO: Cosmic conflict in the Apocalpyse.
- (9.30-10.00) MARTIN WINDISCH: "And what unknowen nation there empeopled were": Apocalyptic vision and the millennium in Virgil and Spenser.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - BABEL (SEMINAR 3, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) JOAN CURBET: Labyrinths of language: Babel revisited in the works of Dickens, Kafka and Borges.
- (9.30-10.00) JOHANNA BUISSON: The myth of Babel and the dream of a "lyric Esperanto" in European poetry from Apollinaire to Henri Michaux, Paul Celan and Ted Hughes.
- PANEL 3: CIVILIZATIONS - CLASSICS FOR ALL SEASONS (SEMINAR 4, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) ROBERT REID: "If Diogenes had lived in Russia...": Classical philosophers and Russian prison literature.
- (9.30-10.00) CLAIRE MORGAN: Sisyphus revisited: Camus, Sartre and the Swinging Sixties.
- PANEL 4: RE-WRITING - YEATS (SEMINAR 5, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) SARAH DEL COLLO: "The cruelty of savage manners": Yeats, Deirdre and her Victorian admirers.
- (9.30-10.00) ANDREW PARKIN: Myth, gesture and the Yeatsian drama of unmasking.
- PANEL 5: IDENTITIES - UNUSUAL HEROES (SEMINAR 6, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) CHARLES FORSDICK: Refiguring revolution: The myth of Toussaint L'Ouverture in C.L.R. James and Edouard Glissant.
- (9.30-10.00) SIRA DAMBE: Viridis senectus: The paradoxical myth of vigorous old age from Theocritus' Idyll I to Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
10.00-11.00: Plenary Lecture - ELINOR SHAFFER: Myths of Community: The Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998.
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-13.00: PAPERS - SESSION 3
- PANEL 1: GENDERS - FEMININE REFASHIONINGS (SEMINAR 1, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) MARIA JOSÉ GAMEZ FUENTES: Virginia Woolf, re-creating the myth: A portrait of the artist as a woman in the fiction of Ana María Navales.
- (12.00-12.30) GEORGINA PAUL: Reading Anne Duden reading St George and the Dragon.
- (12.30-13.00) M.-JOSEPHINE DIAMOND: Benedikte Naubert's "The Cloak": A spider in the web of Grim(m) romantic folk tales.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - APOCALYPSES II (SEMINAR 2, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) ANDREW SPENCER: The nature of man and the universe in Byron's "Darkness".
- (12.00-12.30) DESPINA KAKOUDAKIS: Rooms of lonely facts: The consumed self, the archive and the apocalypse in Don DeLillo's Libra and Mao II.
- (12.30-13.00) PATRICK CROWLEY: Chaotic forms: The nebulous texts of Pierre Michon and Eugène Savitzkaya.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - MYTHS AND SCIENCE (SEMINAR 3, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) SHAFQUAT TOWHEED: On not being able to forget: Théodule Ribot's L'Hérédité psychologique (1875) and the haunting of George Gissing.
- (12.00-12.30) LEENA EILITTA: Kafka's Darwinist re-reading of metamorphosis.
- (12.30-13.00) MALTE HERWIG: Beautiful biology: The scientific transformation of myths in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
- PANEL 3: CIVILIZATIONS: VISIONS AND NIGHTMARES (SEMINAR 4, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) KAREN LEEDER: Angels: Necessary fictions for the millennium.
- (12.00-12.30) DAVID BROTTMAN: The gaze of "the Greys": hegemonic vision and the return of the unsightly to contemporary culture - reflections in/on an evil eye.
- (12.30-13.00) LUDMILLA EVITMOVA: "Passionnément dans l'avenir se mire le passé": Past and present dreams/anxieties haunting the artists and poets of Symbolism.
- PANEL 4: RE-WRITINGS - RE-WRITING THEORY II (SEMINAR 5, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) PETER CRISP: The pragmatics of allegory: From myth and prophesy to apocalypse and after.
- (12.00-12.30) THELMA SHINN RICHARD: Myth, metaphor and the meronymic novel.
- (12.30-13.00) EDMUND WRIGHT: Epistemology, mythos and logos.
- PANEL 5: IDENTITIES - ADVENTURERS (SEMINAR 6, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) YUAN HONGGENG: Sherlock Holmes in China.
- (12.00-12.30) ANNE STEVENS: Robin Hood in the heroic age of popular radicalism.
- (12.30-13.00) ANN LAWSON LUCAS: The purposes of pirates: Historical and mythical, tragical and comical, ancient and (post)modern.
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-23.00: Visit to Brantwood and the Lakes
DAY 3 -- FRIDAY, 17 JULY
8.00-9.00: Breakfast
9.00-11.00: PAPERS - SESSION 4
- PANEL 1: GENDERS - FEMININE SELVES I (SEMINAR 1, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) TRACEY L. WALTERS: (Re)presenting Greek myth: Feminist revisions.
- (9.30-10.00) FRANCES CAUSER: The shamaness, the whore and the beautiful fool: The masks worn by Japanese women in the essays and fiction of Fumiko Enchi.
- (10.00-10.30) MARY-ANN CONSTANTINE: "Owls and flowers": The faces of Blodeuwedd.
- (10.30-11.00) DANIELLE HIPKINS: The syren song of the text: Male myth readings in contemporary Italian women's writings.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - BEYOND THE PALE (SEMINAR 2, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) JOHN S. BATTS: Writes of passage: Crossing Neptune's line in nineteenth-century diaries.
- (9.30-10.00) LUDMILA KOSTOVA: Journeying into "darkest Europe": Encounters with primitive others in nineteenth-century British and French travel writing and narrative fiction.
- (10.00-10.30) MARIELLE RISSE: Dragon-spotting: The motif of "here be dragons" in travel writing.
- PANEL 3: CIVILIZATIONS - ACROSS THE ARTS (SEMINAR 3, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) LENE ØSTERMARK-JOHANSEN: Medusan mesmerism: Swinburne's serpentine delights and the old masters at Florence.
- (9.30-10.00) GILLIAN ANIA: Music as myth in Paola Capriolo.
- (10.00-10.30) ANTONELLA BRAIDA: William Blake and Dante: The revolutionary implications of the illustrations to the Divine Comedy.
- (10.30-11.00) REBECCA ROSEWARNE: Myths of civilisation: Two passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Birth of Tragedy and the iconography of the Parthenon frieze.
- PANEL 4: RE-WRITINGS - TELLING TALES (SEMINAR 4, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) GABRIEL WEISZ: Mythologies of the flesh.
- (9.30-10.00) TIM WEISS: Rushdie's Xanadu: Fairy tale, myth and allegory in The Moor's Last Sigh.
- (10.00-10.30) VAYU NAIDU: The floating vessel: Tales, transpositions and their tellers.
- (10.30-11.00) JANCY JAMES: Decolonising the canon: Subversive retellings of epics and legends in contemporary Indian writing.
- PANEL 5: IDENTITIES - FEMININE SELVES II (SEMINAR 5, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) SUSAN POZNAR: Alias who? Myth-making and the uncanny in the hypnotic dialogue.
- (9.30-10.00) ANIRA ROWANCHILD: "Making the darkness visible": Anne Lister's crypt-hand and the management of myth.
- (10.00-10.30) NICOLETTA MCGOWAN: In search of one's self: A reading of two short stories by Katherine Mansfield and Elsa Morante.
- (10.30-11.00) SARAH BROOM: Myth and fairy legend in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's poetry.
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-13.00: PAPERS - SESSION 5
- PANEL 1: GENDERS - MATRIARCHS (SEMINAR 1, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) CATHERINE MARGERRISON: Cannibalism and matriarchy: Mythical women in the later fiction of Albert Camus.
- (12.00-12.30) GERALDINE COUSIN: The red-bellied queen: Foursight Theatre Company's exploration of the legendary Warrior Queen.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - APOCALYPSES III (SEMINAR 2, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) MAIKE OERGEL: The end of everything and the beginning of something: Nineteenth-century visions of the apocalpyse in Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Wagner's Ring cycle.
- (12.00-12.30) SIMON MEALOR: "And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth": Revelation 21 and myths of homecoming by Huguenot refugees in Elizabethan England.
- (12.30-13.00) CYNTHIA KRAMAN: Decoding the Knight's Tale: Chaucer's dark myth of creation.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - MONSTERS (SEMINAR 3, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) REBECCA ARIANNE STEPHENS: Timebound bodies, timeless fears: Blood culture and the heretic, vampire and Jew.
- (12.00-12.30) KATHERINE LEVIN: The power of perception: Monstrosity and invisibility in folklore fiction.
- (12.30-13.00) CHANTAL BOURGAULT: Upright citizens on all fours: Grotesque excesses in nineteenth-century representations of the werewolf.
- PANEL 3: CIVILIZATIONS - ROMANTIC CROSS-CURRENTS (SEMINAR 4, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) CARLA GNAPPI: The Miltonic legacy of Kubla Khan.
- (12.00-12.30) CHANTELLE MACPHEE: William Blake's The French Revolution: A Shakespearean tragi-historical composition.
- (12.30-13.00) MICHELLE LEIGH GOMPF: Malory's Arthur and Blake's Albion: Two visions of the same myth.
- PANEL 4: RE-WRITINGS: DRAMATIC FORMS (SEMINAR 5, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) PHILIP WARD: Myths of life and death in fin-de-siècle Vienna: The case of Hofmannsthal's Alkestis.
- (12.00-12.30) PAUL STREUFERT: The revolving Western: American guilt and the tragically Greek in Sam Shepherd's "Silent Tongue".
- (12.30-13.00) HENRI LIEUTAUD: Fairy-tale pattern and comedy in The Merchant of Venice.
- PANEL 5: IDENTITIES - RENAISSANCE FASHIONINGS (SEMINAR 6, GEORGE FOX)
- (11.30-12.00) ANNA HOLLAND: "Tying down Proteus": Metamorphosis and identity in Renaissance lyric poetry.
- (12.00-12.30) CYNTHIA SKENAZI: The consolation of the tomb: Lemaire de Belges' Temple d'Honneur et de Vertus.
- (12.30-13.00) MALCOLM QUAINTON: Unusual births in the poetry of Pierre de Ronsard.
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: PAPERS - SESSION 6
- PANEL 1: GENDERS - FEMININE COMMUNITIES (SEMINAR 1, GEORGE FOX)
- (14.30-15.00) ISIL BAS: Shahmaran: The Great Goddess survives.
- (15.00-15.30) SHERRYL H. BOOTH: Breaking and making myth: Adult women and new myths for a postmodern age in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride.
- (15.30-16.00) WEI-YUN YANG: The making of humanity: Doris Lessing's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - ARCHETYPES (SEMINAR 2, GEORGE FOX)
- (14.00-14.30) CHRISTIEN FRANKEN: The Melusine mythology in A. S. Byatt's Possession.
- (14.30-15.00) JAMES RAESIDE: Noma Hiroshi and Gide's acte gratuit.
- (15.00-15.30) PAUL WRIGHT: Claiming the Orphean lute: Partial song and partial myth in Keats's Endymion.
- (15.30-16.00) NATALIA AGAPIOU: Endymion: The inexhaustible resources of a Greek myth.
- PANEL 3: CIVILIZATIONS - MYTH AND HISTORY (SEMINAR 3, GEORGE FOX)
- (14.00-14.30) AMIRA NOWAIRA: History and myth in Louis Awad's novel The Phoenix or the History of Hassan Mouftah.
- (14.30-15.00) PAULINE RAFFERTY: Mythologising/De-mythologising the Northern Irish Troubles: Postcolonial palimpsest.
- (15.00-15-30) FABIO VERICAT: Mythical originality: The phenomenological historicism of T.S. Eliot.
- (15.30-16.00) DONALD MACKENZIE: History as myth: Virgil and others.
- PANEL 4: RE-WRITINGS - EPIC AND ROMANCES (SEMINAR 4, GEORGE FOX)
- (14.0-15.30) SUSAN HOPKIRK: Reading (in) the medieval romance: The construction of a didactic mythology.
- (14.30-15.00) NICOLA CHATTEN: The humanization of a myth: Ovid's Tereus in John Gower's Confessio Amantis.
- (15.00-15.30) PHILIP SCHWYZER: Four Virgils for the four nations: The politics and poetics of translation in the sixteenth century.
- (15.30-16.00) HELEN MOORE: Southey, Scott and Amadis de Gaula.
- PANEL 4: RE-WRITINGS - 20TH-CENTURY MYTHOLOGIES I (SEMINAR 5, GEORGE FOX)
- (14.00-14.30) LEON BURNETT: Experience and explosion: Revisiting Madame Sosostris.
- (14.30-15.00) CAROL L. YANG: "What the thunder said": An unfinalizing dialogue of the Waste Land.
- (15.00-15.30) MIGUEL CRESPO: The genealogical character of modernist re-enactments of ancient writers.
- (15.30-16.00) DAVID RUDD: Is man a myth? C.S. Lewis, Shadowlands and self-destructive fantasy.
- PANEL 5: IDENTITIES - AUTHORS IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER (SEMINAR 6, GEORGE FOX)
- (14.00-14.30) GREG HAINGE: The art of automythography: The role of myth in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Germanic Trilogy.
- (14.30-15.00) TIBOR TÓTH: The myth of the "almighty author".
- (15.00-15.30) KITTY MILLET: Marginal romantics and conflicts of conscience: Rahel Varnhagen's search for Jewish identity and its future implications.
- (15.30-16.00) KATE HAMMER: Performing myth: A question of agenda.
16.00-16.30: Tea
16.30-17.30: PAPERS - SESSION 7
- PANEL 1: GENDERS - FORMS OF DESIRE (SEMINAR 1, GEORGE FOX)
- (16.30-17.00) KIMBERLEY SUTHERLAND: The arresting eye/I: Marcel watches Oriane in À la recherche du temps perdu.
- (17.00-17.30) ED MOFFATT: A modern myth of masculinity: Serial behaviour and the sense of smell in Rosa Montero's 'Te trataré como a una reina'.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - HOPEFUL MONSTERS (SEMINAR 2, GEORGE FOX)
- (16.30-17.00) ELIZABETH HEDGECOCK: Hopeful monsters: The Woman in White and Great Expectations.
- (17.00-17.30) CHARLIE LOUTH: Figures of transition: Centaurs in Hölderlin and Goethe.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - THE FALL (SEMINAR 3, GEORGE FOX)
- (16.30-17.00) JEAN WEBB: The serpent grows older: The myth of Eden in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English children's literature.
- (17.00-17.30) SANDRA ADAMS: The Lord of the Flies as myth.
- PANEL 3: CIVILIZATIONS - CULTURE MYTHS (SEMINAR 4, GEORGE FOX)
- (16-30-17.00) JOANNE KNOWLES: The "spell of supreme romance": Henry James and the myths of Old World culture.
- (17.00-17.30) SUSAN HARROW: Through Zola's magnifying glass: Subverting Second Empire culture in La Curée.
- PANEL 4: REWRITINGS - ROMANTIC PALIMPSESTS (SEMINAR 5, GEORGE FOX)
- (16.30-17.00) ROBERT HEMMINGS: The topography of palimpsest: Wordsworth's legacy in Blunden and Sassoon.
- (17.00-16.30) BEATA POLANOWSKA: An ironic dialogue with Romantic myths in the work of the Polish writer S. I. Witkiewicz.
- PANEL 5: IDENTITIES - THE WRITER AS HERO (SEMINAR 6, GEORGE FOX)
- (16.30-17.00) ROBERT CHURCHILL: "And the hero was made flesh and dwelt amongst them": Tennyson as archetypal hero.
- (17.00-17.30) NICK GROOM: Demonic Chatterton.
17.30-18.30: Plenary Lecture - ALAN GARNER: The scoundrel tail (language and myth).
18.30-19.30: BCLA General Meeting
19.30-20.30: Dinner
20.30: BCLA Executive meeting
20.00-23.00: Bar
DAY 4 -- SATURDAY, 18 JULY
8.00-9.00: Breakfast
9.00-11.00: PAPERS - SESSION 8
- PANEL 1: GENDERS - FEMINIST FAIRY TALES? (SEMINAR 1, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) BEATRIZ DOMINGUEZ GARCIA: The fairies' heritage: Sheri S. Tepper's Beauty and the fairytale lineage.
- (9.30-10.00) JESSAMY HARVEY: Displacing the wolf: Girlhood, sex and violence in Carmen Martín Gaite's re-telling of "Little Red Riding Hood".
- (10.00-10.30) SUSAN SELLERS: "The pleasure of the damned" (or: Why feminists love fairy tales).
- (10.30-11.00) KAREN SEAGO: Let Sleeping Beauties lie...? On the difficulties of re-visioning the tale.
- PANEL 2: MYTHEMES - EPIPHANIES (SEMINAR 2, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.30-10.00) HUGO AZERAD: Epiphany as the aura of myth in Proust and Faulkner.
- (10.00-10.30) MARGARET TOPPING: The gods' watch-chain: Deification and deflation in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
- (10.30-11.00) SEUNG EOK HAN: Light in Mallarmé's mythology and the Zen vision of the void.
- PANEL 3: CIVILIZATIONS - NATURE AND CIVILIZATION (SEMINAR 3, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.30-10.00) ELIZABETH VINESTOCK: Myth and environmentalism in a Renaissance poem: Jean Antoine de Baïf's "La Bièvre".
- (10.00-10.30) LAURENCE COUPE: Sacred time, sacred place: Mythology in the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Gary Snyder.
- (10.30-11.00) NINA TAYLOR: Landscape legends in Polish literature. Towards a mythical Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Adam Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances.
- PANEL 4: RE-WRITINGS - 20TH-CENTURY MYTHOLOGIES II (SEMINAR 4, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) EDUARDO VARELA BRAVO: "Folie à deux" as a ritual in Peter Carey's Bliss (1981).
- (9.30-10.00) PARVATI NAIR: Constellations from the past: Fiction as history in the narratives of Julio Llamazares.
- (10-.00-10.30) GLYN HAMBROOK: Reclaiming tradition: Juan Ramón Jiménez's literary influences.
- (10.30-11.00) DAVID JONES: Aesthetic myth: Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett - two German letters, two parallel aesthetics.
- PANEL 5: RE-WRITINGS - THE USES OF TALES (SEMINAR 5, GEORGE FOX)
- (9.00-9.30) PENNY BROWN: Transformations: Reason and imagination in the nineteenth-century fairy tale.
- (9.30-10.00) CLAUDIA NOCENTINI: Uses of classical myth and exotic tales in Italo Calvino.
- (10.00-10.30) GRAZIA PIFFANELLI: Marina Warner: On the tracks of the Queen of Sheba.
- (10.30-11.00) IULIAN BOLDEA AND TATIANA IATCU: Parallel myths in Romanian and English folklore.
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.30: Plenary Lecture - MARINA WARNER: Zoomorphies: The perils and seductions of Circe's enchantments.
12.30-12.45: Closing Address
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