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Bochum, May 2009




Theorizing Narrative Genres and Gender

An international two-day conference will be held on this theme at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), on 15 and 16 May 2009.

This conference will discuss:

  • the ways in which certain narrative genres (novels, short stories, fairy tales, autobiographies, personal diaries, travel writing, etc.) have been gendered,
  • the impact that these texts have had on readers, both men and women,
  • the question: what consequences have readers’ reactions and the gendered critical discourse had for the formation and development of narrative literary genres?

Recent research, 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’.


PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
with abstracts and hyperlinks to information contained in the database WomenWriters.

Keynote-Lecture:

  • Vera Nünning (University of Heidelberg)

Gender, Authority and Female Experience in Novels from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A Narratological Perspective

Section I: Appropriations de genres

L'écriture de Mémoires comme réplique à la dérive misogyne du genre: les Mémoires de Madame de Murat (1668?-1716)

Defying Genres to Find a Voice. Giustiniana Wynne and the Birth of the Italian Novel

A madhouse of one's own. The representation of mad women as a strategy of subversion and poetological stimulus in the novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán

The Image of Margit Kaffka in Hungarian literature

Section II: Créations de genres nouveaux

Gender and the City – Urban narratives in travel writing by German-speaking women in the 19th century

The Cry of a Virgin: Politics, Gender and Self-representation in 17th century Prophetic Genres

An Allegory of Female Resistance: Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies

English women authors and the oriental tale.

Keynote-Lecture:

  • Joan DeJean (University of Pennsylvania)

The Wages of Anonymity: Two Case Studies (Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette and Françoise de Graffigny)

Section III: Fiction vs Non-fiction

The vita of Joanna de Jesus (1621 - 1680). Source and genre

  • Ursula Jung (Ruhr-Universität Bochum):

On the Relationship between Short Stories and Non-Fictional Prose in Emilia Pardo Bazán

The feminist manifesto

Les Moralques ou le roman anthropologique comme moyen pour proposer une alternative à la condition féminine

Section IV: Supposed female preference for the novel

Les discours sur la femme auteur dans la presse féminine en France et en Italie à l’époque 1900: les genres littéraires genrés

Rhétorique des genres et analyse du discours : l’ethos discursif de quelques épistolières du Siècle des Lumières

Du larmoyant à la comédie : à propos du roman sentimental et des femmes

  • Katja Mihurko (Univerza v Ljubljana):

Genres development in the literature of Slovene Women Writers until 1900

Section V: Le Paratexte

Genres littéraires et écriture féminine au Portugal à l’âge moderne

  • Henriette Partzsch (University of St. Andrews):

Manipulating Genre and Gender: the Novella in Early Modern Spain

  • Madeleine Jeay (McMaster University, Hamilton):

Le double jeu de la dédicace aux dames et des épîtres aux lecteurs dans les recueils de nouvelles des XVe-XVIe siècles

Section VI: Les femmes lectrices

La place des romancières dans l’espace variable d’un genre en essor: Différence des sexes et poétique du roman en Allemagne 1815-1848

  • Valérie Cossy (Université de Lausanne):

Ces héroïnes qui ne lisent plus de romans : Le topos de la lectrice romanesque et la légitimité de la romancière au tournant du XIXe siècle

  • Alicia Montoya (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen):

Classicism, medievalism, and the construction of the woman reader. Madame de Sévigné as a model reader of narrative fiction

Séance de clôture

Conference languages: French and English.
Organisers: Lieselotte Steinbrügge, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and Suzan van Dijk, Universiteit Utrecht.
For information and/or participation: contact Barbara Thönnes.

For more detail information and/or possible programme changes, see xx



SvD, February 2009




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