Equinoxes 1998: Littérature et Révolutions

PROGRAM

all events
- unless otherwise noted -
will take place in the Music Room of Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect St.


Friday 6 March 1998:

5:00 OPENING REMARKS
Seth Whidden, Chair, Equinoxes 1998: Littérature et Révolutions


5:10 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Professor Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
"Meursault's Marginality and Revolution"


6:00 RECEPTION AND EXHIBIT, la Maison Française, 87 Prospect St.
Artaud le mot-dit: A literary art-happening

Une écriture charnelle
Un poète aliéné
Un théâtre cruel
Un visionnaire assassiné


Saturday 7 March 1998:

8:30 - 9:00 COFFEE

9:00 - 10:15 SESSION 1
Chair: Paola Grolli, Brown University

1. Effie Rentzou, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne / Columbia University, "La clef de la révolution: l'amour. La sémiotique de l'amour dans la poésie surréaliste française et néo-hellénique"

2. Milo Sweedler, Emory University, "Surrealistic Revolution"


10:30 - noon SESSION 2
Chair: Thomas Armbrecht, Brown University

1. Eleanor Kaufman, Cornell University, "Sick Bodies, Vicious Circles, and the Revolution"

2. Aaron Prevots, Brown University, "Must One Be Modern? 20th Century Poetics and the French Cultural Heritage"

 


1:30 - 3:00 SESSION 3

Chair: Seth Whidden, Brown University

1. Eduardo Febles, Brown University, "Narration and Revolution in Zola's La Fortune des Rougon"

2. Charlotte C. Kelsey, University of Illinois at Champaign / Urbana, "The Instituteur and Institutrice of the Third Republic (1871-1914): (Not So) Silent Revolutionaries"

3. Annick Carstens, University of Winnipeg, "L'esprit de la révolution française dans l'oeuvre de Victor Hugo"

 


3:15 - 4:30 SESSION 4

Chair: Stephanie Lopez, Brown University

1. Véronique Munier, New York University, "Le peuple des 'appels au peuple' lors des massacres de septembre 1792 à Paris: contribution à l'imaginaire guerrier"

2. Debs Hahn, Brown University, "Terrifying Pedagogy or Teaching the Revolution through Film: The Case of Wajda's Danton"

 


5:00 CLOSING REMARKS
Debs Hahn, Brown University


5:15 RECEPTION, Rochambeau House Library


This space generously provided by Brown University's
Department of French Studies.