The following ESSE-13 (2016) Conference seminars have extended their paper proposal deadlines.
ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.
S36 “Desire and “the expressive eye” in Thomas Hardy”
Co-convenors
- Phillip Mallett, University of St Andrews, UK, pvm@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Jane Thomas, University of Hull, UK, J.E.Thomas@hull.ac.uk
- Isabelle Gadoin, Université de Poitiers, France, isabeluis2@free.fr
- Annie Ramel, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France, annie.ramel@gmail.com
Thomas Hardy has inspired critics with an interest in the visual arts: many of his texts can be read as “iconotexts” with a powerful “painting effect”, even in the absence of any direct reference to painting (Louvel). Desire is another theme which has found its way into major criticism of Hardy’s work – the first item in the series being J. Hillis Miller’s Distance and Desire (1970). This seminar will explore the relation between desire and the gaze in Hardy’s work. Is the eye an “expressive eye” (Bullen), which makes manifest the “positive, dynamic and productive dimension of desire” (Thomas), or is it “the evil eye”, “full of voracity” (Lacan)? We will welcome proposals opening new directions in Hardy criticism, linking the desiring subject / the power of the gaze / the writing process.
ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.
S45 “Technology and Modernist Fiction”
Co-convenors
- Armela Panajoti, University of Vlora, Albania, armelap@assenglish.org
- Eoghan Smith, Carlow College, Ireland, esmith@carlowcollege.ie
Technology (advanced knowledge applied in the creation and use of tools, equipment, facilities and accessories) has historically not only made life easier but has also reconfigured human and social relationships, fed man’s imaginations, scientists and artists alike, and created the more recent realities of technoculture. In literature, the early possibilities of technology inspired masterpieces such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Technology in its commodifiable forms was a major preoccupation of literary artists at the beginning of twentieth century. This seminar will focus on modernist fiction with the intention to seek productive perspectives on the intersections of literature and technology, with special emphasis on the contribution of the latter to the modernist quality of the first.