Oxford University French Postgraduate Conference “Metamorphosis”

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Conveners

Garance Auboyneau, Magdalen College

Helena Taylor, St Anne's College

Sophie Turner, St Anne's College

Oxford University French Postgraduate Conference “Metamorphosis”

Date: Friday 27 Jan 2012 - 14:00 to Saturday 28 Jan 2012 - 18:00

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Topic: Literature

FRIDAY 27th JANUARY

2.15-3.15 Keynote

Claudine Nédelec (Université d'Artois): “Prendre tant de peine à défigurer: les métamorphoses burlesques”

Chair: Alain Viala

3.15-4.45 Panel 1: Rewriting of Myth
Chair: Jennifer Oliver (University of Oxford)

Nathalie de Brézé (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1): “Variations autour d'une métamorphose d'Ovide: le mythe d'Amphitryon selon Molière et Giraudoux”

Chiara Mainardi (University of Turin): “Theseus in L'Antiope by Guérin de Bouscal”

Alina-Daniela Rey-Gorez (Univeristé Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Université de Bucarest): “Les métamorphoses textuelles du mythe de Narcisse chez Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun et Evrart de Conty: mise en abîme, parodie et intertextualité”

5-6.30 FILMLa Belle et la bête, Jean Cocteau

SATURDAY 28th JANUARY

9-10 Keynote

Nikolaj Lübecker (University of Oxford): “On the transformative power of the Feel-Bad film”

Chair: Kate Tunstall (University of Oxford)

10-11.30 Panel Two: The power of images
Chair: Victoria Weavil (University of Oxford)

Amelia Jackson (Queen Mary, University of London): “Appolo on an armoire: the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses on the furniture of André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732)”

Katherine Marsaili McLelland (University of Edinburgh): “Metamorphosis through stillness: André Breton's Nadja and the transformation of textual content through photographic illustration”

Marin Hirschfeld (University of Oxford): “Houellebecq's Les particules élémentaires and Roehler's Elementarteilchen: Transnational Film Adaptation as Contemporary Metamorphosis”

11.45-1.15 Panel Three: Transforming and transporting
Chair: Ruth Bush (University of Oxford)

Catherine Burke (University of College Cork): “Nothing endures but change”: Twentieth-century responses to Homer's Iliad

Ashley Riggs (University of Geneva): “Contemporary Rewritings of Fairy Tales in Translation: A Triple Metamorphosis”

Kathleen Hamel (University College Cork): “'Iamque opus exegi': the survival of Ovid's epilogue in the late twentieth-century fiction of Kristeva and Darrieussecq”

2.15-3.15 Keynote

Caroline Warman (University of Oxford): “Jostled by another horse: fear and exhilaration in narratives of materialist transformation”

Chair: Stephen Goddard (University of Oxford)

3.45-5.15 Panel Four: Identity
Chair: Paul Earlie (University of Oxford)

Pauline Moret Patiño (Durham University): “Métamorphoses du visage dans À la recherche du temps perdu : corps et identité chez Proust”

Xiaofan Amy Li (University of Cambridge): “From transformation to transformation: the animal and the human in Henri Michaux”

Philippa Lewis (University of Cambridge): “Criticism as metamorphosis in nineteenth-century French literary culture: Baudelaire and Sainte-Beuve”

5.15-5.45 Table Ronde

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Oxford University French Postgraduate Conference “Metamorphosis”

Prendre tant de peine à défigurer: les métamorphoses burlesques

Speaker: Claudine Nédelec

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Theseus in L'Antiope by Guérin de Bouscal

Speaker: Chiara Mainardi

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On the transformative power of the Feel-Bad film

Speaker: Nikolaj Lübecker

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