Authority of prose. Democracy of reading

1DECEMBER 2018
Oxford
Symposium

DEMOCRACY Programme (in collaboration with the Research Network Literature and Democracy / CNRS)

Coord.: Philippe ROUSSIN (CNRS-École des hautes études en sciences sociales / UMR 8566, CRAL, Paris), Reidar DUE (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
Org.: GDRI “Littérature et démocratie, XIXe-XXIe siècle)”, Magdalen College (University of Oxford), École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid)

Place:
University of Oxford
Magdalen College
Summer Common Room


Free entrance

Programme

10h00

Opening 

10h15-12h45

Georgina PAUL
University of Oxford
Putting Germany on trial: Ursula Krechel's 2012 novel Landgericht between fiction and documented history

Eveliina PULKKI
University of Oxford
Estonia – Finland: Sofi Oksanen's dual nation chronicles

Catherine BRUN
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
L'intertexte et le document : usages de la citation dans Le Lambeau de Philippe Lançon

Daniela OMLOR
University of Oxford
Between fact and fiction: engaging the reader in Javier Cercas's relatos reales

14h-15h30

Olivier TONNEAU
University of Cambridge
Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner - Scripting terrorism in French literature (2012-2015)

Reidar DUE
University of Oxford
Obtuseness as Aesthetic Category: Jan Faktor and Michel Foucault

Ann JEFFERSON
University of Oxford History from Below: Eric Vuillard’s (non-) Fiction

15h45

Conclusions
 

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