What does literature do?: Rencontres autour de Alain Viala
Le Temps des cerises, 2022; Graphics: Dugudus
Convened by Jess Goodman (Oxford), Simon Park (Oxford), Marine Roussillon (Artois), Gemma Tidman (QMUL), and Kate Tunstall (Oxford).
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Roundtable & Book Launch:
L’Adhésion littéraire/Attachments to Literature
4 – 5.30pm, Thursday 22 September 2022
For the posthumous publication of Alain Viala’s L’Adhésion littéraire (Paris: Le Temps des cérises, 2022)
Welcome: Pascal Marty (MFO, Oxford)
Chair: Wes Williams (Oxford)
Speakers: Andrew Counter (Oxford), Stéphanie Loncle (Caen-Normandie), Dinah Ribard (EHESS), André Petitjean (Lorraine-Metz)
Drinks reception: 5.30 – 6.45pm
International Colloquium: What does literature do?
9.15 am – 5.30 pm, Friday 23 September 2022
Welcome: 9.15am
Panel 1: 9.30 – 11am: Literature and Politics
Chair: Emma Claussen (Cambridge)
Alice Roullière (Oxford), ‘Relecture politique de la pratique poétique de Ronsard avec Alain Viala’
Marine Roussillon (Artois), ‘Politiques galantes’
Léo Stambul (Paul Valéry-Montpellier), ‘Replis stratégiques : le littéraire, entre politique et sociologie’
BREAK: 11 – 11.30am
Panel 2: 11.30am – 1pm: Constructing the Field: Acts of Authorship
Chair: Helena Taylor (Exeter)
Jess Goodman (Oxford), ‘The author of/in literary history: the future, conditional?’
Flavie Kerautret (Paris–Nanterre), ‘Éléments pour une poétique historique des recueils: un cas ancien singulier, Bruscambille’
Christophe Schuwey (Université Bretagne Sud), ‘Former et reformer les publics’
LUNCH: 1 – 2pm
Panel 3: 2 – 3.30pm : Literature in Society
Chair: Annalisa Nicholson (Oxford)
Mathilde Bombart (Université Lumière Lyon 2), ‘Au secours de la littérature : constructions et usages d'une valeur’
Neil Kenny (Oxford), ‘Texte et contexte’
BREAK: 3.30 – 4pm
Panel 4: 4 – 5.30pm: Constructing the Field: Acts of Readership
Chair: Nina Mueggler (Fribourg, Switzerland)
Cécile Barth-Rabot (Université Paris Nanterre, CESSP), ‘Que fait l’école à la lecture ?’
Gemma Tidman (QMUL), ‘Follow the Reader’
Geoffrey Turnovsky (Washington), ‘Viala and the Sociology of Reading Publics’
Conference kindly supported by:
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Lady Margaret Hall
Maison Française d’Oxford
Modern Humanities Research Association
New College, Oxford
Queen Mary, University of London
Society for French Studies
Textes et Cultures, Université d’Artois
Société d’étude du XVIIe siècle
