International Conference on Narrative: April 19 - 2
The International Conference on Narrative will be held at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 18 – 22, 2018.
Professor Lindsay Holmgren invites the Desautels Community to attend the Panels and Talks hosted at the Desautels Faculty of Management.
Please note that the plenary engagements are closed to the public due to limited seating in Moyse Hall.
1. Reading Over Time
Location: 422
Moderator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University
Presentations:
- Beyond Contempt: Ways to Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Faye Halpern, University of Calgary - Rereading the Future
Cynthia Port, Coastal Carolina University - Sedimental Education, or The Ethics of Aging
Peter Rabinowitz, Hamilton College
2. Strange, Unusual, and Unnatural
Location: 423
Presentations:
- They-Narratives
Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen University - Out of One, Many: Multi-Perspectival First-Person Narration in Earl Lovelace’s Salt
Steve Beaulieu, University of Maryland - Modeling Unnatural Plots: The Unusual Progression of Atkinson’s Life After Life
Brian Richardson, University of Maryland
3. Im-Personalities
Location: 179
Moderator: Michael Benveniste, University of Puget Sound
Presentations:
- First-Person, Plural: Subjection and Character-Function in Ethnic Narrative
Michael Benveniste, University of Puget Sound - Killing Like a State: The Character of Zero Dark Thirty
Joel Burges, University of Rochester - More or Less Human: Second-Order Anthropomorphism and the Attribution of Character
John Hegglund, Washington State University - Mimetic, Synthetic, Thematic: “Typical” Characters and Lukács’s “The Typical”
Joe Shapiro, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
4. Discourse in Narrative
Location: 410
Moderator: Ondřej Sládek, Czech Academy of Sciences
Presentations:
- Toward a Theory of Interest Structure
Justin Ness, Northern Illinois University - Jan Mukařovský’s Approach to Literature: Structural Narratology
Ondřej Sládek, Czech Academy of Sciences - Chronological Order, the Narrative Present, and Dialogue
Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University - Discourse and Narrative: Success and Failure in Discussing Difficult Stories
Robert Price, University of Toronto, Mississauga
5. Unsettling Allegory
Location: 360
Moderator: Rachel Hile, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Presentations:
- Non-Narrative Allegory in Memes and Cartoons: Implications for a Theory of Allegory
Rachel Hile, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne - Allegorical Vehicles: Format and Narrative Passages in E.M. Forster
Kurt Koenigsberger, Case Western Reserve University - Realism as Allegory
Nicholas Carr, University of Amsterdam - Allegorical Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
Carrie Shanafelt, Fairleigh Dickinson University
6. Situated Self Writing
Location: 340
Moderator: Katra Byram, The Ohio State University
Presentations:
- Strangers to our Shores: Narrative Perspectives on Immigration and the Immigrant Experience
John McTighe, Ramapo College of New Jersey - An Emotional Coloring of History: Fictive Discourse in Family Life Writing
Katra Byram, The Ohio State University - The Narrative-I and the Experiencing-I in Autobiographical Narratives
Zuzana Foniokova, Masaryk University - The Function of Autobiographies in the Construction of a Trans Narrative
Sandy Artuso, Université du Luxembourg
7. Representing Childhood and Adolescent Interiority
Location: 210
Moderator: Lorna Martens, University of Virginia
Presentations:
- Hexed! The Child’s Perspective
Lorna Martens, University of Virginia - The Queer Potential of Narrative Voice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Novels
Steven Greenwood, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ - Narrative Empathy and the Representation of Adolescent Emotions in This One Summer
Rocio Davis, University of Navarra - Cognitive Disability and Representational Contests in The Child Who Never Grew and The Adventures of Augie March
Evan Chaloupka, Case Western Reserve University
8. Multi-Narratives I
Location: 310
Moderator: Jutta Zimmerman, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Presentations:
- Multi-Narratives: A Framework
Andre Schwarck, Kiel University - Authorial (Para)Text and Narratorial Omniscience in Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers
Tristan Kugland, Kiel University - More Than a Sum of Parts: Multinarrativity in Jack Kay’s Poetry Sequence “The Adoption Papers”
Liz Bahs, Royal Holloway University
9. Strange Temporalities: Reconstructing Master Narratives of History in Contemporary Speculative Fiction
Location: 245
Chair: Teemu Ikonen, University of Tampere
Presentations:
- Being in History: Creating the Present through Imagined History in Robin Hobb’s Farseer
Markus Laukkanen, University of Tampere - History After the End: Folded Temporalities and Building History in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
Mikko Mantyniemi, University of Tampere - The Misty Beginning of History: Narrativization of Mythical and Historical Knowledge in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Buried Giant
Elise Kraatila, University of Tampere
10. Inner and Outer Landscapes
Location: 178
Moderator: Lutas Liviu, Linnaeus University
Presentations:
- In an Imagined State: The Use of Adynaton in Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves
Adele Kudish, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY - From “Justified Sinner to “The Ettrick Shepard”: Narration and Personal Identity in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Wanlin Li, Peking University - Representations of the Anthropocene in Narratives for Children
Lutas Liviu, Linnaeus University - Narrativizing Landscape in Diderot’s Salons
Maury Bruhn, University of North Carolina atChapel Hill