"Théorisation des genres narratifs et études de genre", int. Tagung
- Ort: Bochum
- Beginn: 15.05.09
- Ende: 16.05.09
- Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Französisch, Sprachenübergreifend
- Frist: 01.11.08
Theorizing Narrative Genres and Gender / Théorisation des genres
narratifs et études de genre
Proposals are invited for an international two-day conference to be held
at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), on 15 and 16 May 2009.
Organised within the framework of the project NEWW (New approaches to
European Women's Writing), this conference would like to discuss (1) the
ways in which certain narrative genres (novels, short stories, fairy
tales, autobiographies, personal diaries, etc.) have been gendered, and
(2) the impact that these texts have had on readers, both men and women.
Finally (3), what consequences have readers' reactions and the gendered
critical discourse had for the formation and development of narrative
literary genres?
Recent research, for example on the feminocentrism of the seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century French and English novel, on narratology or on
the differences between female and male reading, has shown that not only
is the literary discourse tied to issues of gender, but the
metadiscourse is equally imbued with it; the ‘querelles des femmes' were
frequently intertwined with literary disputes.
In keeping with the NEWW's objectives, the conference will cover a
relatively long time period, extending from 1400 to 1900, and will also
present contributions treating European literatures that are considered
‘marginal'.
Contributors could address the following issues:
* the effects that literary genres (e.g., the novel) were supposed
to have on a female public;
* the relationships between morality and literature, between realism
and idealism;
* the impact of the concept of gender on key aesthetic notions;
* the consequences for literary history;
* the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in literary movements;
* the ‘gendered' quality of literary theory and narratology.
Contributions will preferably move beyond individual cases and attempt
to expand the discussion within a theoretical perspective. Proposals
(approximately 250 words) in French or English, the conference
languages, may be sent to the organisers Suzan van Dijk, Universiteit
Utrecht (Suzan.vanDijk@let.uu.nl) and Lieselotte Steinbrügge,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (lieselotte.steinbruegge@rub.de). Contributions
should be 20 minutes long. The articles resulting from this meeting will
be published; a committee of readers will make a selection.
*Deadline for proposals:* 1 November 2008.
The focus of the project NEWW (New approaches to European Women's
Writing, 2007-2010) is the position of women writers (active before
1900) in the national and international literary field of their epochs
and the place of women in the historiography of European literature up
to 1900. See www.womenwriters.nl <http://www.womenwriters.nl/>.
NEWW held its first conference, ‘Femmes écrivains à la croisée des
langues, 1700-2000' (Women Writers at the Crossroads of Languages), in
May 2007 in Geneva; a volume of articles based on the conference papers
is in preparation under the direction of Agnese Fidecaro, Henriette
Partzsch, Suzan van Dijk and Valérie Cossy. It will be published by
MétisPresses in Geneva.
The second conference, ‘Readers, Writers, Salonnières: Female Networks
in Europe, 1700-1900', took place in May 2008 in Chawton, Hampshire
(UK). A selection of papers will be published.
-- dr. Alicia C. Montoya Rosalind Franklin Fellow Department of Romance Languages Faculty of Arts University of Groningen P.O. Box 716 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands Tel. +31 (0)50 3635202 www.rug.nl/staff/a.c.montoya/index
Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher