Journées d'étude: Lydia Davis, Writing, Reading and Translation/Lydia Davis, écrire, lire et tra
Lydia Davis, Writing, Reading and Translation/Lydia Davis, écrire, lire et traduire
Study days organized by/Journées d’études organisées par
Institute of Modern Languages Research
(School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Université de Bordeaux Montaigne
(TELEM, EA 4195)
13-14 May 2020/13-14 mai 2020
Institute of Modern Languages Research, Senate House
Keynote speakers/Conférenciers invités
Emily Eells, University of Paris 10-Nanterre
Jonathan Evans, University of Portsmouth
13 May 2020
(10:00-10:30) Registration
(10:30-10:45) Welcome by Jean-Michel Gouvard (University of Bordeaux Montaigne)
(10:45-12:15) Session 1: Lydia Davis and the French writers
Véronique Samson, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 University
Lydia Davis’s Flaubert
Ambra Celano, ILUM University
Lydia Davis and Maurice Blanchot: L’arrêt de mort
(12:30-14:00) Lunch
(14:00-15:30) Session 2: Keynote 1
Emily Eells, University of Paris 10-Nanterre
The Way by Swann’s : In-between the lines of Lydia Davis’s Proust
(15:30-15:45) Coffee break
(15:45-17:00) Session 3: Writing and Translation
Fredrik Rönnbäck, Sarah Lawrence College and University of California
Excess and Restraint: Lydia Davis as Author and Translator
Anna Zumbahlen, poet, University of Denver
Returning or Reawakening: Two Views of Swann’s Way in English
14 May 2020
(09:45-10:15) Registration
(10:15-12:30) Session 4: Modernism and Modernity
Julie Tanner, Queen Mary, University of London
The shape of feeling: Lydia Davis and the novel after postmodernism
Elena Gelasi, University of Cyprus
Lydia Davis and postfeminism
Jean-Michel Gouvard, University of Bordeaux Montaigne
“The Cows”: Writing and Visual arts
(12:30-14:00) Lunch
(14:00-15:30) Session 5: Keynote 2
Jonathan Evans, University of Portsmouth
Non-exhaustion in the work of Lydia Davis
(15:30-15:45) Coffee break
(15:45-17:00) Session 6: (Very)Short Stories
Claire Fabre-Clark, Université Paris-Est-Créteil
“Lydia Davis’s short stories : the (im)possibilities of fiction”
Ahlam Othman, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, BUE (Egypt)
Irony in the Microfiction of Lydia Davis’ Varieties of Disturbance (2007)
