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1. we D ici the Short Sery Collection 7 tr eds cb Conference programme KU Leuven 22 24 May 2012 Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe University of Leuven INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE INTERNATIONALE CYCLES RECUEILS MACROTEXTS THEORIZING THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION THEORISER LES RECUEILS DE RECITS BREFS 22 24 MAY 2012 Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe Janseniusstraat 1 Leuven Tuesday 22 May Mardi 22 Mai 14 00 Registration Enregistrement 14 30 15 00 Official Opening Inauguration officielle Conference organisers Luk Draye Dean of the Faculty of Arts Hedwig Schwall director of LCIS 15 00 16 00 16 00 16 30 16 30 18 00 Keynote lecture 1 Rolf Lund n Uppsala University Centrifugal and Centripetal Narrative Strategies in the Short Story Composite and the Episode Film chair Elke D hoker Coffee break Pause caf Concepts theories questions chair Hedwig Schwall Mara Santi Universiteit Gent Performative Perspectives on Short Story Collections Thomas Conrad Universit Paris Ill Recueil de nouvelles et cycle de romans po tique crois e de deux formes d accumulation textuelle 18 00 Drinks reception Ap ritif 9 00 10 30 Wednesday 23 May Mercredi 22 Mai Contemporary fiction chair Elke Brems Nina Botes Universiteit Antwerpen The Afrikaans short story cycle2. ce la progression sp cifique des v nements choisie par l auteur Comment le choix structurel de Saviano influence t il le message de d nonciation du livre La structure du macrotexte augmente t elle la force d impact du livre Cette analyse nous permettra de d celer la trame interne au texte sans oublier la r alit sociale vivante laquelle le livre tient HILDE STAELS KU LEUVEN CAMPUS KORTRIJK Barbara Gowdy s We So Seldom Look on Love A Network of Perspectives on Deviance This paper aims at showing the relevance of Robert Luscher s theory about the short story sequence to the interpretation of Barbara Gowdy s short story collection We so Seldom Look on Love 1992 In The Short Story Sequence An Open Book Luscher does not offer a uniform model which a sequence should comply with Instead he gives primacy to considering a sequence as an open book inviting the reader to construct a network of associations that binds the stories together and lends them cumulative thematic impact The unity of Gowdy s We so Seldom Look on Love depends on paratextual devices and on the recurrence of grotesque character types in stories that consistently combine realism with the grotesque mode The deviant characters in the enclosed story worlds may be interpreted in terms of their distinctiveness Yet the reader s initial perspective on love as experienced by a necrophiliac an exhibitionist and a transsexual become
3. qui invite la comparaison Mais surtout elles se croisent et interf rent l une avec l autre Ce sont ces interf rences que nous tudierons On doit notamment garder l esprit que les cycles romanesques rassemblent souvent des romans et des nouvelles parfois en recueils ainsi chez Balzac ou chez Faulkner De tels cycles prolongent ils remplacent ils ou absorbent ils le recueil de nouvelles Les deux formes sont elles compl mentaires ou concurrentes L examen de ces interf rences chez Balzac et chez Antoine Volodine devrait permettre de jeter un clairage enrichissant sur le rapport entre le recueil de nouvelles et le genre du roman non pas comme parfois en faisant du recueil un quasi roman ou un proto roman mais en le comparant avec ce qu on pourrait appeler un recueil de romans ALDA CORREIA UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA NEW UNIVERSITY IN LISBON Regional Dissonance Space and Landscape in the short story cycle Literature reflects illustrates the landscape that produced it and the analysis of space landscape is essential in the appreciation of structural and thematic construction of a literary work Regionalist literature has long used space landscape to express social dissent revolt criticism challenge and the short story cycle structure fits very adequately this purpose as it gives the possibility to show multiple independent yet interlinked perspectives of one only problem and at the same time
4. CAGLIARI Sardonica A fogu aintru et Millant anni l approche g n rative et volutive des recueils de Giulio Angioni L tude des ceuvres de Giulio Angioni doit obligatoirement prendre en consid ration les recueils de r cits brefs qui sont a l origine de toute cr ation narrative de l auteur En effet il crit toujours un r cit avec en t te l id e d un roman qui est donc contenu dans le peu de pages qui constituent le r cit m me et qui subira une volution dans le cours de la production de Angioni Nous entendons par cela dire que pratiquement toutes les histoires composant les trois ouvrages pris en examen A fogu aintru de 1978 Sardonica de 1983 et Millant anni de 2002 repr sentent soit le noyau d un roman que l crivain laborera par la suite soit un anecdote utile dans une narration plus complexe montrer une certaine morale ou un aspect particulier d un personnage Il est donc int ressant de voir de quelle fa on et dans quelle mesure chaque r cit anticipe une uvre dite majeure De plus notre analyse se propose de mettre en lumi re le penchant de Giulio Angioni pour la forme de la narration br ve d j six recueils publi s sur un total de dix sept uvres du genre narratif et son volution dans la conception de la structure des trois recueils choisis vu que dans la composition des macrotextes nous pouvons retrouver parfois un th me ou un sentiment commun parfois un vrai cadre dans lesquels les narr
5. It offers the punch and poetry Sean O Faolain looked for in what he read introducing four new stories with six previously published in Atlantic Monthly Dublin Magazine and Harper s Bazaar The potential of this collection will be examined here LIES XHONNEUX UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN The Terrible Girls Took Anything Rebecca Brown s De idealization of the Narrative of Community Many of the short stories by Rebecca Brown a contemporary US based lesbian author were published separately before appearing in thematically linked collections with a collective protagonist Dunn and Morris 15 such as The Terrible Girls subtitled A Novel in Stories or What Keeps Me Here subtitled A Book of Stories will argue that these works add creatively to Sandra Zagarell s influential notion of the narrative of community often hailed as an essential interpretative lens through which many if not all women s short story sequences ought to be read Harde 2 The narrative of community is seen as a prime embodiment of marginalized communities Lingel 88 which arguably makes it an appropriate frame for a lesbian writer depicting women to women interactions such as Brown Yet the queer community frequently idealized as a nonhierarchical and undifferentiated experience of harmony and mutuality Weston 127 is shown to be less rosy in Brown s oeuvre In the final story from The Terrible Girls for in
6. by breaking away from its original and strictly structuralist conceptualization THERESA WRAY CARDIFF UNIVERSITY A sacrificial offering breaking new ground Mary Lavin s first short story collection Tales from Bective Bridge 1942 Reviewing Frank O Connor s comment that The saddest thing about the short story is the eagerness with which those who write it best try to escape from it what are we to make of those who do choose to make the genre their principal writing mode The level of commitment to what is an exacting form often compacting demanding subject matter into brief intense canvases of life deserves recognition It is too easy to deduce from O Connor that the eventual prisoners of the genre are somehow less successful Mary Lavin who had a long career writing short stories did indeed make a brief venture into the world of the novel but chose to return to the short story as her principal writing mode Lavin said the short story had limitless potential but felt too great an obsession with technique could be harmful to a story warning ilt needs only readers to accept that it is already a powerful medium in which anything anything anything that is to be said can be said as in poetry Such confidence in the form was demonstrated in her first collection Tales from Bective Bridge 1942 Despite the parochial nature of the title of the collection the stories demonstrate a remarkably diverse macro level of interests
7. disjunction even when lives do intersect within the collection is the characteristic experience of the space they inhabit Such a spatial composite thematizes the fragmentation that is at once the subject and form of the short story cycle In regional cycles without a figure such as George Willard whose uneven learning about his own and others conditions creates a loose narrative arc or without a common narrator whose struggles with telling the stories is threaded through the volume the reader s spatial construction of place and theme as s he progresses sequentially temporally through the volume assumes greater predominance in the aesthetic experience This paper will examine selected contemporary American short story cycles whose primary unity derives from region or community focusing on the spatiotemporal assembly of the imaginative space that delimits characters lives even as it assembles them in a loose community that seems to withhold the possibility of a fully coherent existence Among the potential texts to be considered will be Donald Ray Pollack s Knockemstiff 2008 which is literally set down the road from Anderson s hometown of Clyde Ohio and the real Winesburg just another hour away and which depicts more violent and desperate grotesques carving out lives in poverty on the border of the Appalachian foothills Brett Easton Ellis s The Informers 1994 whose materialistic amoral narrators reveal the ennui with which the
8. ils minorent l orientation finale et la conclusion des r cits ils interrogent les configurations r trospectives Par le biais d ellipses ainsi que de param tres et protagonistes focalisateurs ils cr ent un monde fragment l aide de Fringe stories et d anchor stories ils perturbent l quilibre au sein du composite de nouvelles entre histoires individuelles tant la coh rence th matique que l quilibre structurel Le composite dispose galement d un potentiel permettant l inclusion ou l exclusion d histoires sans que cela n affecte sensiblement l impression g n rale du lecteur sur le livre cette mal abilit rend le composite de nouvelles significativement diff rent du roman traditionnel ROBERT M LUSCHER UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY Down The Road from Winesburg The Spatiotemporal Aesthetics of Contemporary American Regional Short Story Cycles Often overshadowed by the kiinstlerroman of George Willard that provides an evolving temporal dimension and loose developmental arc to Sherwood Anderson s short story cycle Winesburg Ohio the town of Winesburg seems relegated to the status of the background on which to paint his dreams of young manhood as it is characterized in the final story The sketchy map of Winesburg included in the first edition with just two named streets and eight numbered sites omits a number of places mentioned in the stories and covers only about four blocks of town
9. leaving it to the reader s imagination to construct a more detailed physical geography one whose scope fails to approximate the degree of its influence on the lives of its residents The town is clearly influential in the lives of a number of characters and serves as a character in its own right as it grows spatially in a piecemeal fashion over the duration of the collection it emerges as a delimiter of their lives consigning many to liminal spaces and to atomized existences However its seemingly antagonistic character concurrently serves as that background for characters individual dreams and for the spatiotemporal construction of the sympathetic narrative sensibility that animates the tales and provides further coherence across the gaps among stories and among characters lives In essence the progressive spatial assembly of place in the short story cycle replicates the imaginative assembly of the stories themselves providing a thematic dimension that comments upon the tension between disparateness and coalescence The paradox of Winesburg and many similar modernist sequences centered upon place is that readers through a perspective that evolves temporally over the course of the collection are readily able to recognize that its characters exist in an environment distinguished by intersection as well as disjunction Yet that totalizing vision of the whole is not one shared by those who populate the stories whose isolation and spiritual
10. of her own biological clock On the cusp of middle age at the very moment when her faculties may be in decline she has found herself pregnant for the first time The collection was repackaged for an American audience under the more assertive title In the Driver s Seat but the original term is the more nuanced encapsulating Simpson s concerns across the whole collection with corporeality the passage of time and the persistence of habit Circularity recurs in the turning of the seasons the circulation of the blood compulsive behaviour and the sometimes futile repetitions enforced by daily routine linking the stories themselves in a cycle Drawing on Bakhtinian theory shall discuss a constitutional chronotope showing how Simpson engages with circular time both formally and thematically exploiting the tension between unity and diversity in the short story cycle ELKE D HOKER KU LEUVEN Visions of community in the 21st century Rachel Cusk s short story cycles As Sandra Zagarell has argued in her pioneering essay Narratives of Community nineteenth century regional writing often depicted small local communities through a series of interconnected short stories These works have now been recognised as forerunners of the more famous modernist short story cycle archetypically represented by Dubliners and Winesburg Ohio which are in fact narratives of anti community or anti narratives of community as they focus on the
11. recognize the projectuality in the functional use of the short story genre by the author himself which admits to the collectability of story sets Our paper aims to analyze the contraposition between author and reader or collector and the issue of recognizing an authorial project in a virtual collection This will be done by applying the aforementioned theoretical frame to a case study of Italo Svevo and other European writers NINA BOTES UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN The Afrikaans short story cycle and Marlene van Niekerk s Die sneeuslaper 2010 In recent years there has been an increase in the production of Afrikaans short story cycles most notably as output from creative writing programmes at South African universities Botes amp Cochrane 2011 under the supervision of renowned Afrikaans writers such as Marlene van Niekerk and Etienne van Heerden Van Niekerk s most recent publication Die sneeuslaper 2010 The snow sleeper can also be regarded as a short story cycle Generic conventions of the four individual texts that make up this volume are problematised by the history of these texts and the generic classification of the stories as an inaugural lecture a eulogy a fieldwork report and a lecture respectively The focus on narrative situations in these texts displays the self reflexive devices that have been a feature of South African short story cycles since the end of apartheid Marais 2001 202 Tension between the autonomy of th
12. slim volumes like Swift s can lead to reductive and misleading interpretations SRECKO JURISIC SVEUCILISTE U SPLITU UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT CROATIA Andrea Camilleri s theory of short story collections Andrea Camilleri Porto Empedocle 1925 is best known as the crime novel with his series of novels with the commissario Montalbano as the main character and the history novel author II re di Girgenti La scomparsa di Pato etc Camilleri s short story opus is also very interesting A part from the collections tied together by the Montalbano character Un mese con Montalbano La paura di Montalbano racconti di Montalbano and the inspector Cec Collura Le inchieste del commissario Collura previously serialized in the magazines which reproduce the same structural dynamics of the crime novel series the remaining collections are far more structurally complex II gioco della mosca for example is clearly inspired by Leonardo Sciascia s Occhio di capra and is set as a sort of a glossary even if the author in the foreword defines them as a collection of micro stories II Gran Circo Taddei e altre storie di Vigata emulates the sound and the mood Luigi Pirandello used to give to his short story collections Racconti quotidiani and Gocce di Sicilia put together articles and short stories formerly published in the newspapers and give and important insight in the Camilleri poetics Camilleri s short story production
13. Cette po tique convoque les architectures internes autant qu elle prend en consid ration la lecture des uvres Un regard port sur les singularit s des corpus r cents am ne ouvrir la r flexion sur des pratiques narratives connexes dont l conomie interne les rapproche fortement des recueils la notion de diffraction pourrait permettre de saisir de fa on plus g n rale la tension propre ces uvres English translation Bind read unbind a poetics of collections and a poetics of diffraction Starting from the context of contemporary French and Quebec literature want to reflect on defining elements of a poetics of collections of texts This poetics will take the internal architecture of collections into account as well as the reading experience of the work A look at the singularities of recent corpuses will offer a starting point for a reflection on similar narrative practices the internal economy of which presents striking similarities with collections the notion of diffraction could be used to capture the tension proper to these works in a broader way CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS TUDOR BALINISTEANU UNIVERSITY OF SUCEAVA Women s Identities and the Masculine Folktale Tradition in il s Ni Dhuibhne s The Inland Ice The Irish writer Eilis Ni Dhuibhne creates stories that reveal new aspects of folktale events and characters by filtering them through contemporary con texts and recent cultural history Marina Warner s com
14. Englishness in J S Le heteronomous ways of writing in Fanu s Chronicles of Golden Friars Alvaro s Gente in Aspromonte 1871 1930 Rossella Ciocca Universita di Theresa Wray University of Napoli From story to sketch Cardiff A sacrificial offering freezing the reader in Saadat breaking new ground Mary Lavin s Hasan Manto s narrative first short story collection Tales sequence about Partition from Bective Bridge 1942 An Van Hecke Lessius Debbie Brouckmans KULeuven Stories in boxes the short story The first Irish Short Story Cycles collections of Augusto Barlow and Somerville amp Ross s Monterroso Narratives of community 10 30 11 00 Coffee break Pause caf 11 00 12 00 Keynote lecture 3 Robert M Luscher University of Nebraska Kearney Down The Road from Winesburg The Spatiotemporal Aesthetics of Contemporary American Regional Short Story Cycles chair Elke D hoker 12 00 13 30 Lunch 13 30 15 00 Fin de si cle British Fiction chair Rapha l Ingelbien Alexia Kalantzis Universit de Cergy Pontoise Pour une lecture des recueils de r cits fin de si cle Ciska Beunnens Pieter Jan Boeckaert amp Mara Santi Universiteit Gent Virtual Short Story Collections theoretical approach to Italo Svevo s fin de si cle poetics in his short chair Hilde Staels Ailsa Cox Edge Hill University Walking in Circles Helen Si
15. Short Story Cycles Fact Mimics Fiction propose to present a paper in which analyze the work of Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat with regard to her use of the short story cycle not only in her two fictions Krik Krak 1996 and The Dew Breaker 2004 but also in her nonfiction Brother I m Dying 2007 In the first two Danticat largely accomplishes what she had fallen short of in her first novel Breath Eyes Memory 1994 adequately engaging an audience generally ignorant of contemporary Haitian issues and appropriately paying tribute to her cultural predecessors For these purposes the story cycle proves the perfect vehicle due to both its hybrid nature and the manner in which it structurally mimics or parallels the traumatic experience as outlined by contemporary theorists In the later Brother I m Dying Danticat returns to similar structuring techniques to make sense of her own emotional pain and suffering and to testify to the multiple debts she believes owed her own family members Brother I m Dying features components similar to both fictional cycles and Danticat likely constructed this work in an analogous fashion several short segments were first published in a variety of mainstream periodicals and then edited and restructured for publication as a full length book contend that in so doing Danticat conspicuously uses her own most effective fictional devices to process and express personal feelings and autobiographica
16. UNIVERSITEIT GENT Virtual Short Story Collections theoretical approach and historical occurrences in late 19 century European literature Ingram who demonstrated in the Recurrent development the fundamental link that allows to recognize a cycle in a collection of short stories states that such a set of stories could be collected or uncollected These sets may be collected by either an editor an editor author or a single author Ingram 1971 According to Ingram a reader can recognize one or several virtual short story collections in an author s short story production even when the author did not collect these stories himself In addition to this Ferguson considers the possibility that sets can be considered anti sequence where there are stories that obviously do fit together or could fit together in a sequential pattern but whose authors have refused to put them together or allow them to be put together Ferguson 2003 A contrast therefore exists between author and reader the former denies or refuses the existence of the collection while the latter nevertheless recognizes it This recognition is based on experience with a model of collections a model subject to a historical evolution Next to projected or uncompleted collections one could also detect explicit defiance to the act of collection When this is the case we should not look for the projectuality in the collection or anti collection itself Rather we should try to
17. a different kind of performativity that introduces the genre of the SSC into modernity and postmodernity MANUELA SPINELLI L UNIVERSITE DE PARIS OUEST Gomorra de Saviano un macrotexte de d nonciation D s sa publication Gomorra a attir l attention pour la force et l inexorabilit de son criture et pour les vicissitudes de l auteur Cette uvre que les critiques ont souvent d finie comme hybride soulignant l impossibilit de la renfermer en un genre sp cifique est une juxtaposition de chapitres ind pendants Chacun peut tre lu comme un r cit a part enti re se concentrant sur un aspect un v nement ou un personnage Le fil conducteur liant les parties entre elles est le voyage du narrateur dans le Naples souterrain et cach du Syst me L analyse examinera l uvre d s la d finition du macrotexte de Maria Corti Chaque chapitre peut en fait tre interpr t comme une microstruttura qui si articola entro una macrostruttura Cette articulation engendre une tension entre une force centrifuge propre aux r cits et une force centrip te propre au cadre dont l quilibre d licat assur par le je t moin permet de lire Gomorra comme un texte coh rent o son message est plus qu une simple addition d pisodes On interrogera donc le texte en unifiant l analyse structurelle et s miotique l analyse th matique pour faire ressortir une s rie de significations qui surgissent gr
18. alogic open narrative In the combat between homogenization and the counteractive heterogeneous narrative devices we should as critics devote equal attention to both combattants The centripetal narrative elements are many identify for instance four subgenres of the short story composite namely the short story cycle the short story sequence the short story cluster and the novella collection some of which subcategories are also applicable to the episode film These subgenres contribute through their respective structures to unifying the short story composite But there exist also other narrative means of producing coherence Individual short stories are linked for instance to events such as weddings parties and funerals Other composites are structured around an accident in still others an object like a car or a musical instrument is made to travel from one owner to the next whose stories then are told The counter forces trying to derail the reader are equally numerous The short story composite and the episode film are basically open works resisting too much homogenization Their centrifugal maneuverings de emphasize causality and linearity they downplay end orientation and closure they question retrospective patterning By means of ellipses and shifting focalizers protagonists and settings they create a fragmented unreliable world With the help of fringe stories and anchor stories they disrupt the balance withi
19. and Hilde Staels KULeuven campus Kortrijk Barbara Gowdy s We So Seldom Look on Love A Network of Perspectives on Deviance Lies Xhonneux Universiteit Antwerpen The Terrible Girls Took Anything Rebecca Brown s De idealization of the Narrative of Community Italian literature chair Paola Casella Manuella Spinelli Universit de Paris Ouest Gomorra de Saviani un macrotexte de d nonciation Giovanni Palmieri Universit de Provence Le roman bris de la patrie Le chateau d Udine de Gadda en tant qu hypermacrotexte Laura Nieddu Universit Paris Ouest Nanterre la D fense Sardonica fogu aintru et Millant anni l approche g n rative et volutive des recueils de r cits de Giulio Angioni chair David Martens Celeste Bronzetti Universit de Paris Sorbonne Les recueils de contes deJ M G Le Cl zio Paola Casella Universitat Z rich Entre projet macro textuel et r alisation inachev e les Novelle per un anno de Luigi Pirandello Cristina Greco Sapienza Universita di Roma Fronti res et traductions Les recueils de 10 30 11 00 Coffee break Pause caf 11 00 12 00 Keynote lecture 2 Ren Audet Universit Laval Lier lire d lier po tique du recueil et po tique de la diffraction chair Bart Van den Bossche 12 00 13 30 Lunch 13 30 15 00 French and Italian literature Women
20. and film scripting was able to produce almost 250 short stories and to rank among the best Asian contemporary authors of this genre He published some collections of short stories and sketches related to the traumatic event of Partition between India and East and West Pakistan in 1947 In those collections of interlinked stories the sequence of events acts circumstances and episodes recorded are engraved paradigmatically in a narrative whose preeminent task is that of impressing the memory of the atrocities perpetrated during the civil war directly on the skin of the reader Strategically assembled within a logic of subtraction the materials of his writing proceed from the short stories towards the sketches becoming more and more fragmentary The tone is increasingly sour and scornful desolation is miniaturized in a few grotesque remarks For him removing personal and psychological connotations denying empathy and stripping his texts to the bare bones was not simply his personal way of experimenting with the modernist aesthetics it was a determined tactic to convey a sense of moral unease about the violence and the folly which were general and equally distributed among all the involved parts The kernel of meaning of Manto s short fiction lies at the intersection between a search for aesthetic form and moral concern an intersection from which he could vindicate the primacy of narrative in the acts of understanding and witnessing what chronicles pol
21. ations s ins rent GIOVANNI PALMIERI UNIVERSIT DE PROVENCE Le roman bris de la patrie Le ch teau d Udine de Gadda en tant qu hypermacrotexte Le deuxi me recueil de r cits de Gadda Le ch teau d Udine 1934 a t construit conform ment une logique macrotextuelle pr cise et particuli re qui sera l objet de mon analyse 1 L invention d un commentateur fictif et des notes du bas de page aux textes publi s auparavant en revue sans aucune note est la proc dure la plus importante qui d termine l unit textuelle du livre en le modifiant de l int rieur 2 Le syst me de titres et de sous titres qui se trouve dans Le ch teau d Udine est une autre proc dure formelle qui garantit l unit et la tension du livre 3 Enfin les variantes significatives entre les textes publi s en revue et les textes du recueil constituent un autre l ment d cisif dans la construction du volume en question Du point de vue th orique je parlerai aussi de la notion du macrotexte Maria Corti et d autres notions Le probl me critique qui m interesse par rapport a l uvre enti re de Gadda est tablir si ses textes brefs peuvent ou non tre definis des r cits des contes des nouvelles ou au contraire ils doivent tre consider s en tant que proses Cela entra ne videmment la question de la narrativit chez Gadda MARA SANTI UNIVERSITEIT GENT Performative Perspectives on Short Story Collections The paper intends to dis
22. cuss the concept of performativity Schechner in the context of SSC studies and in particular its pertinence to the relation between autonomy and individuality of the single text and the degree of unity of the macro textual structure that the SSC generates Performativity can be applied firstly on the two textual forms short text macro text secondly on the two perspectives involved in the communicational act sender writer receiver reader How does the the single text affirm its identity performatively and how can we evaluate the performative affirmation of the whole that occurs through the act of collection and inclusion of the texts in a book Audet This process needs to be analyzed in both ways from the perspective of the writer assembler and from the reader s perspective The present analysis elaborates premises stated in earlier studies Ingram Luscher and situates the SSC in a different context of narrative strategies than that of traditional narratology Page Moreover it aims to develop a theoretical framework centered on a mechanism operable on all levels and thus transcending a taxonomy based on an infinite phenomenology of authors texts geographic areas and eras At the same time it retraces the history of the SSC as from the origins of Western Literature orality or fictional orality Baldissone Davis which are forms of performativity have been the foundation of SSC to the 19th century when this orality makes way for
23. e four individual texts and the coherence of the whole is established in a number of ways especially through repeated characters setting motifs and narrative techniques However the interdependence of the individual texts becomes more than a mere technical stunt as it has a profound impact on the theme of the whole each narrative undermines the stance of the previous text denying the reader the possibility of a coherent viewpoint Viljoen 2011 In this paper will shortly map out at some elements of unified shorter texts in the Afrikaans literary tradition before looking at the functionality of the form of the short story cycle for Die sneeuslaper CELESTE BRONZETTI UNIVERSITE DE PARIS SORBONNE Paris IV Les recueils de contes de J M G Le Cl zio Ma communication aura pour principal objectif l tude de la sp cificit des recueils de contes de J M G Le Cl zio dans la litt rature fran aise contemporaine Je me concentrerai en particulier sur La Ronde et autres faits divers oeuvre en cours de traduction dans le cadre de mon travail de m moire Il s agit d onze r cits la fronti re entre la nouvelle et le conte la r f rence du titre l actualit des faits divers qui les rattache la tradition de la nouvelle r aliste est d savou e dans la construction de chaque narration o s insinue syst matiquement la pr sence du fantastique selon la d finition que nous en donne Todorov Le fantastique c est l h sitation pro
24. ent is made that the genre rather stems from a very long tradition of episodic narrative art and literature The short story composite is thus a modern variant of for instance the ancient Greek and Roman novel which was no novel in the modern sense but rather a narrative consisting of episodes like beads on a string similar in kind to the composite This form of episodic fictional narrative was dominant for centuries until the modern novel appeared The lecture discusses the birth of the novel in the eighteenth century and questions its later hegemony The composite has been designated a hybrid form of fiction something between the novel and the short story collection but as mentioned it rather follows an age old tradition the modern novel is by comparison much more of a hybrid genre The latter half of the lecture will focus on the friction in the short story composite and the episode film between the centripetal and the centrifugal narrative forces Many critics and scholars but not all have concentrated on analyzing the unifying devices in these art forms trying to establish the integral coherence and internal purposiveness of these texts As good Aristotelians as believers in organicism and homogenization they have tried to novelize the composite But the short story composite is not a novel it is equally much characterized by the narrative strategies that undermine the seamless whole and that instead advocate the di
25. h varying set of characters as well as by setting and theme As opposed to the cycles of Irish mythology and the framed tale collections by other nineteenth century Irish authors Barlow and Somerville amp Ross s collections are unified by internal linking instead of external framing Moreover hope to demonstrate that these short story cycles do not only participate in the Anglo Irish tradition of informing the outside world about Irish life but can also be considered part of a regional tradition of cycles which Sandra A Zagarell has called narratives of community She defines the genre as grouping together works which take as their subject the life of a community and portray the minute and quite ordinary processes through which the community maintains itself as an entity Zagarell mentions Irish Idylls as an example Somerville amp Ross s Irish R M collections although they have not been labeled narratives of community also clearly narrate the life of a community Barlow and Somerville amp Ross s short story cycles share an episodic structure a lack of linear plot progression a mediating narrator and a focus on the ordinary yet typical aspects of the life of a community Finally will attempt to show that the contrast between community life and the modern world typical of the genre finds a different interpretation in Irish Idylls and in the Irish R M MARCIA CARLSON UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN Danticat s
26. he book published by Le Monnier became immediately a great success and received favorable reviews from critics of both sides Some critics categorized it as a novel others as a short story collection still others even as a poemetto lirico Interpretations of the volume usually focus and often exclusively on the first story with the same title as the entire book Due to the important presence of references to traditional culture Verga is quoted as an important source and as a unifying element in the collection of short stories In this paper will focus on the problematic features of Gente in Aspromonte as a short story cycle by concentrating on the complicated genesis the various unifying elements in content and form ranging from spatiotemporal isotopies macro and microstructural connections and thematic threads such as family bonds social redemption complex bipolarity These features will then be interpreted in the light of the tensions between autonomy and heteronomy that characterize Alvaro s writing AN VAN HECKE LESSIUS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Stories in boxes the short story collections of Augusto Monterroso In her study on short story collections in Spanish literature Antonaya N ez Castelo 2000 states that there is a lot of ambiguity in literary criticism as the ciclo de cuentos is generally not recognized as a specific genre In this paper will focus on the Guatemalan author Augusto Monterroso whose work reveals so
27. is among the most interesting and varied in the contemporary Italian literature and in spite of its apparent plainness it has a multilayered structural background ALEXIA KALANTZIS PRAG UNIVERSITE DE CERGY PONTOISE Pour une lecture des recueils de r cits fin de si cle Cette communication aurait pour but d analyser un corpus r duit de recueils de r cits brefs fin de si cle notamment de Remy de Gourmont Marcel Schwob et Henri de R gnier partir des r centes th ories sur l histoire culturelle et la po tique du support d velopp es par Alain Vaillant et Marie Eve Th renty En effet l objet de ces th ories est d analyser en quoi le support p riodique est essentiel pour l analyse de la litt rature du XIX si cle l criture dans les journaux entra nant un remodelage profond de la litt rature et des cadres g n riques Or le passage du p riodique journal ou revue au livre constitue une riche ligne d interpr tation pour les auteurs tudi s et pour leur esth tique du recueil qui m le les traits journalistiques a travers l anecdote et les effets s riels notamment et l aspiration au livre travers le travail sur l unit Ces recueils de r cits constituent ainsi des formes originales entre unit et fragmentation particuli rement significatives de la crise du roman qui caract rise la p riode fin de si cle LAURA NIEDDU UNIVERSIT PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA D FENSE UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI
28. itics and even history were failing to see the dark side of the glorious Independence of India The Partition in all its absurdity and horror As one declared goal of your conference is to map the historical development of the collection of short stories in different languages and traditions my proposal aims at investigating a specific case study pertaining to the South Asian Urdu language and Punjabi area cultural and historical dimension THOMAS CONRAD UNIVERSITE PARIS IIl SORBONNE NOUVELLE CENTRE DE RECHERCHES SUR LES POETIQUES DU XIXE SIECLE CRP19 UNIVERSITE PARIS III Recueil de nouvelles et cycle de romans po tique crois e de deux formes d accumulation textuelle Nous aborderons le recueil de nouvelles en le confrontant a une forme proche le cycle romanesque Il s agit dans les deux cas d objets construits par accumulation et interconnexion de r cits Cette accumulation rel ve en droit d une m me po tique fond e sur les notions de transtextualit Genette et dans certains cas de transfictionnalit R Saint Gelais La proximit entre le recueil de nouvelles et le cycle romanesque est ind niable les deux formes appellent la m me terminologie le fameux short story cycle posent les m mes probl mes la tension entre unit et multiplicit et recourent parfois des proc d s similaires la r currence d un univers fictionnel commun plusieurs r cits Ces deux formes ont donc une parent
29. its progressive consequences on a specific community space As Roberto Dainotto in his Place in Literature regions cultures communities 2000 sustains in a period of multicultural approaches place and the spatialization of time the historical past the conflicting present and the restorative future of spaces can be a more appropriate rooted and meaningful frame to read literature The same could be said about the short story cycle frame Considering this my proposal is to analyse the construction and different uses of space landscape in the short story cycles Tales of the Alhambra W Winesburgh Ohio Sherwood Anderson The Country of Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett Lettres de mon Moulin Alphonse Daudet and The Fishermen Raul Brand o focusing mainly on the articulation between self sufficiency and interdependence of the stories as evidence of a specific social and cultural context AILSA Cox EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY UK Walking in Circles Helen Simpson s Constitutional The thing about a circular walk is that you end up where you started except of course that you don t the title story positioned at the end of UK writer Helen Simpson s Constitutional 2005 takes its name from a slightly old fashioned British usage referring to a moderate exercise In this story a science teacher takes her regular lunchtime stroll round Hampstead Heath in London As her lunch hour ticks away she considers the perversities
30. iveau macrotextuel la coh rence entre les diff rents r cits et de th matiser les discontinuit s qui existent a la fois dans la ville et dans le texte Ainsi que le sugg re la carte sch matique de Winesburg l imagination du lecteur constitue un l ment central dans la construction d une g ographie physique plus d taill e dans la mesure o la ville se d veloppe dans l espace d une mani re fragmentaire au cours du recueil elle apparait toujours plus restrictive pour leurs vies condamnant de nombreuses personnes un espace liminal et a des existences atomis es Au fond la constitution progressive de l espace dans ce recueil reproduit celle des histoires m mes donnant ainsi lieu a une dimension th matique qui renvoie la tension entre le disparate et la coalescence Dans les recueils de type r gionaliste d pourvus de figures comme George Willard susceptibles de cr er un d veloppement narratif plut t libre ou d pourvus d un narrateur collectif dont les efforts pour raconter les histoires sont voqu s au long du volume la construction spatiale du lieu par le lecteur au fur et mesure qu il traverse le volume joue un r le pr dominant dans l exp rience esth tique Apr s avoir discut du mod le de Winesburg cette conf rence examinera un choix de deux recueils am ricains contemporains dont l unit provient essentiellement de la r gion ou de la collectivit Knockemstiff de Donald Ray Pollock 2008
31. l dilemmas In her selections of actual memories and family stories in moving between past and present as well as between Haiti and the US and in her insertions of historical national and international facts and episodes something she does less overtly in her fiction Danticat creates and enriches the context of her relatives lives By extension she justifies her own role as exile survivor activist giving voice to those who otherwise would be silenced For her the short story cycle is the most effective form to bridge or marry otherwise contradictory impulses in both her most compelling thematic messages and her real life PAOLA CASELLA UNIVERSITAT ZURICH Entre projet macro textuel et r alisation inachev e les Novelle per un anno de Luigi Pirandello Les Novelle per un anno NA sont concues par Pirandello 1867 1936 comme un recueil d finitif en 24 volumes r unissant des nouvelles d j parues s par ment dans des revues et journaux ou assembl es en des recueils d un seul volume mais aussi des nouvelles non encore crites Il s agit d une double vis e ditoriale d une syst matisation a posteriori et d un projet d criture a priori L Avvertenza manifeste quelques principes caract ristiques de tout macro texte la d limitation num rique du corpus laquelle revient une valeur symbolique la logique de la s lection interne aux volumes l ordre s riel la r vision textuelle de chaque r cit effectu e en fonction de la n
32. lack of meaningful connections between characters who share a common locale At the end of the 20 century then narrative of community and short story cycle coincided again in many American short story cycles which sought to represent the often hybridized lives of ethnic groups within a multicultural American society e g works by Tan Kingston Cisneros Alvarez Naylor a o In this paper would like to look at the way the community is construed in 21 century short story cycles Works such as Jennifer Egan s A Visit from the Goon Squad 2011 Colum McCann s Let the Great World Spin 2009 Monica Ali s Alentejo Blue 2006 and Polly Samson s Perfect Lives 2011 use the form of the short story cycle to evoke not a community in the traditional sense but the looser networks that exist between people in our contemporary digital age Instead of charting the lives and stories of a group of people who all know each other connected through place ethnicity family relations or a combination of these these collections offer stories of individuals which are much more tangentially connected to one another In other words the links between the stories and the links between the characters are much more tenuous than in most earlier short story cycles and fragmentation is typically privileged over unity or commonality will demonstrate these general hypotheses through a close reading of two short story cycles by the British writer Rachel C
33. me problematic issues concerning short story collections The author calls his books simple deposits or boxes to explain the fact that he puts all kind of texts together short stories and essays but also translations of other authors as he did for instance in Movimiento perpetuo 1972 The metaphor of the box is probably just another trick of Monterroso known for his humour and complexity In reality there are several aspects that link the different texts in Movimiento perpetuo creating a unity within the book Furthermore in his essays Monterroso has written a lot about the formal features of the short story its relation to the novel and its marginal status in literary criticism It is also noteworthy that the author himself published an anthology of short stories together with Barbara Jacobs Antologia del cuento triste 1997 The selected authors have been essential for them as writers This explains the intertextual perspective of my analysis Among the many references to other authors in Monterroso s work short story writers are standing out Joyce Dario Borges Kafka Cortazar Poe etc Monterroso s comments on their work can help us to better understand his vision on the making of short story collections ALESSANDRO VITI UNIVERSITA DI SIENA Macrotesto original conceptualization of the term and its possible extension The term macro text was coined in the Seventies by Italian literary semiotician Maria Corti to
34. ments on feminist revisions of folk and fairy tales can be used to describe the ethos of Ni Dhuibhne s writing her newly told stories can sew and weave and knit different patterns into the social fabric a continuous enterprise for everyone to take part in Managing Monsters 1994 xiv An example is Ni Dhuibhne s short stories collection The Inland Ice The collection is structured using a folk story from the manuscript collection of the Department of Irish Folklore UCD entitled The Search for the Lost Husband Several motifs of the folktale serve as introductions to each of the stories in the collection with each story unpacking a motif s meanings in terms of contemporary social experiences of women as wives and lovers This strategy helps to expose the normativity of the folktale while also pointing out the ways in which tales like The Search for the Lost Husband interconnect with contemporary discourses to create myths about women that naturalise constraining socialisation patterns In this presentation will focus on how Ni Dhuibhne uses folktale material in intertextual relationship with stories that depict events in the recognisable social world to structure a macrotext that entices reflection on how folktales in spite of being associated with the rural past can be seen to govern perceptions of feminine social identities and roles in contemporary society CISKA BEUNNENS PIETER JAN BOUCKAERT MARA SANTI
35. mpson s Constitutional Andrew James Chikushi Jogakuen University Graham Swifts Companionless Souls story cycle Srecko Jurisic University of Elke D hoker KULeuven Visions Split Gabriele D Annunzio s of community in the 21 century strategies in short story Rachel Cusk s short story cycles cycles collections 1879 1900 15 00 15 30 Closing remarks Discours de cl ture 15 30 16 00 Coffee break Pause caf CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS EXTRAITS DE CONGRES KEYNOTES ROLF LUNDEN UPPSALA UNIVERSITY Centrifugal and Centripetal Narrative Strategies in the Short Story Composite and the Episode Film This lecture will be devoted to a form of episodic narrative which term short story composite and which others call short story cycle or short story sequence and will at times compare it to the episode film These narratives are characterized by their structure of autonomous short stories interlinked and assembled into a composite and a film The presentation will be divided into two sections 1 an overview of the genre s history and tradition over the past two thousand years and 2 a discussion of the characteristics of the composite s and episode film s structure of unifying and disintegrating narrative strategies In the first part of the lecture the view that the short story composite is a comparatively recent phenomenon is questioned and the argum
36. n the short story composite between the individual stories both the thematic coherence and the structural balance The composite also possesses a potentiality for including or excluding stories without greatly affecting the reader s overall impression of the book this extendability makes the short story composite differ significantly from the traditional novel Traduction francaise Les strat gies narratives centrifuges et centrip tes dans la combinaison de nouvelles et le film a pisodes Ma conf rence sera consacr e a une forme de recueil que j appelle combinaison de nouvelles appel par d autres cycle ou s quence de nouvelles et que j aime a comparer au film a pisodes La caract ristique de ces r cits est d tre compos s d pisodes autonomes mais li s dans un ensemble de nouvelles ou un film La communication sera divis e en deux parties 1 un aper u de la tradition et de l histoire du genre depuis deux mille ans et 2 une analyse de la structure de la combinaison et du film pisodes qui a une action unificatrice en m me temps qu elle fait exploser les strat gies narratives Dans la premi re partie de la conf rence je reviendrai sur l id e selon laquelle l assemblage de nouvelles est un ph nom ne relativement r cent pour essayer de montrer que ce genre est issu d une tr s longue tradition de r cit pisodes dans l art et la litt rature Ainsi la combinai
37. ncois Duvalier in Haiti The Book of the Dead The Book of Miracles The Dew Breaker and the victims who are still struggling to recover from the traumatic experiences inflicted on them by the dew breaker Seven Water Child Night Talkers The Bridal Seamstress Monkey Tails The Funeral Singer This paper looks at the possible motivations behind her choice of the composite novel to tell her story The case study discusses The Dew Breaker in relation to the distinct motifs present in the short fiction of ethnic writers Brown 1997 e g the re affirmation of the oral storytelling tradition and the relationship between community and individual in her work This paper will also discuss another important possible motivation behind her choice of the genre the link between the composite novel and trauma will argue that the composite novel with its structural complications bears a certain thematic significance with traumatic memories which are by definition highly contradictory and fragmented Caruth 1996 CARMEN VAN DEN BERGH KU LEUVEN A novel full of short stories tensions between autonomous and heteronomous ways of writing in Corrado Alvaro s Gente in Aspromonte 1930 The 13 stories collected under the title Gente in Aspromonte appeared jointly for the first time in 1930 in Florence in a period when the literary debate between the so called contenutisti and calligrafi was at its height T
38. nement des diff rents l ments et souligner non seulement les rapports fixes mais aussi les incompatibilit s ventuelles travers les instruments et les concepts analytiques de la s miotique structurale nous proposerons une analyse et une mise en comparaison de certains cas de roman graphique Nous concentrerons notre enqu te par exemple sur Maus et l ombre des tours mortes d Art Spiegelman ou sur Reportages de Joe Sacco r alis s par le m me auteur publi s en pisodes dans un magazine et ensuite r unies en un seul volume ou sur mmigrants pour relever ressemblances et diff rences entre les r cits de plusieurs auteurs r unis dans une m me oeuvre RAPHA L INGELBIEN KU LEUVEN Re cycling short stories as narratives of imagined community faking Englishness in J S Le Fanu s Chronicles of Golden Friars 1871 A prolific writer of supernatural fiction Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1814 1873 often recycled his short stories to reach new audiences While much of his short fiction originally appeared in Irish periodicals Le Fanu later came under pressure to publish books for a British market where publishers told him to avoid Irish themes His best known novel Uncle Silas 1864 set in Derbyshire has thus been shown to have its roots in an older short story set in Ireland This paper will focus on a similar process of rewriting through which Le Fanu recycled some older Irish material into a collection of short st
39. ories 1871 linked by the imaginary English setting of Golden Friars As short story collections are sometimes linked to the genre of the narrative of community the paper will pay specific attention to the ways in which Le Fanu set about representing community life while transplanting his material from the Irish settings with which he was familiar to English settings where he never set foot While the representation of an Irish community would have been both ideologically problematic and formally irrelevant for the younger Le Fanu the representation of an English community in his later collection is characterized by stereotypes and parodic exaggerations that betray its origin in the wishes of Le Fanu s English publishers ANDREW JAMES CHIKUSHI JOGAKUEN UNIVERSITY DAZAIFU JAPAN Graham Swift s Companionless Souls In the titular story of Learning to Swim 1982 Swift s only short story collection six year old Paul Singleton takes swimming lessons from his father who is described as distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces 10 When Paul finally does learn to swim he disappoints his warring parents by swimming away from them towards open water A similar theme is pursued in the second story Hoffmeier s Antelope as the surviving animals are described as two lonely companionless souls impossibly lost to each other even though they shared a species in common 36 The sense that we a
40. ouvelle publication et enfin la vision d senchant e du monde exprim e par la fragmentation et la multitude des textes assembl s La r alisation du projet s tend sur de longues ann es 1922 1937 a cause de l engagement croissant de Pirandello dans l criture et la mise en sc ne th trales d une production narrative tr s r duite caract ris e en outre par une profonde r orientation stylistique dans les ann es trente et du changement de la maison d dition Selon Lucio Lugnani ces v nements auraient contribu loigner la r alisation du projet macro textuel initial au point que les 15 volumes qui nous sont parvenus seraient le r sultat du pragmatisme ditorial plut t que d une volont artistique coh rente de l auteur C est la raison pour laquelle ce sp cialiste des r cits de Pirandello a d cid de publier en 2007 une dition comment e non des NA mais de Tutte le novelle par ordre chronologique Cette nouvelle dition nous offre l occasion d examiner les divergences entre projet et r alisation et d en valuer les r percussions sur la signification du recueil inachev de Pirandello ROSSELLA CIOCCA UNIVERSITA DI NAPOLI L ORIENTALE From Story to Sketch freezing the reader in Saadat Hasan Manto s narrative sequence about Partition Saadat Hasan Manto India 1912 Pakistan 1955 in a prolific but not very long career covering essayist and journalistic writing besides radio play
41. re all companionless and condemned to solitude pervades the twelve stories in the collection Hotel The Tunnel and Seraglio act as reminders of loss betrayal and other barriers to happiness Chemistry offers a typically English response quiet resignation as a means of combatting misery The collection closes with an examination of a self winding watch the possession of which grants its owner immunity from death by natural causes In The Watch the first two owners die at the ages of 133 and 161 when they are struck by an omnibus and a thunderbolt respectively The third owner understands that he must choose between unnatural longevity of life and the opportunity to experience worldly passion He chooses the latter then feeling the pull of the watch has immediate regrets This paper will argue that the decision to adhere to a tight thematic structure in Learning to Swim led to the rejection of numerous stories of superior quality Six uncollected stories published in magazines between 1977 and 1980 might surprise readers of Learning to Swim in offering more positive ways of dealing with loneliness and death This paper will draw on authorial interviews and original manuscripts in the British Library s Graham Swift Archive to explain the reasons behind the selection of the companionless tales in Learning to Swim It will also be argued that short story collections do not always contain an author s best work and
42. refer to Italo Calvino s short story collection entitled Marcovaldo Within a macro text each short story amounts to a micro structure which unfolds within the relative macro structure by means of a combinatorial pattern of formal and thematic features During the experimental season of the Sixties and Seventies several literary works were written in which macro texts tended to be assembled according to a combinational logic in this respect one should mention besides Calvino Manganelli s Centuria in Italy and Perec s La vie mode d emploi in France Starting from the Eighties the tendency to build up macro texts that rested on strict formal structures lost momentum despite the fact that a number of collections of short stories were still arranged into coherent units through thematic relevance spatial or contextual consistency and so forth This is the case of Celati and Tabucchi s collections in Italy as well as of many minimalists works in the US An innovative frame for macro texts was also developed by movie directors who managed to interlink stories by virtue of film editing as it is the case of Altman s adaptation of Carver s short stories into Short Cuts Accordingly this paper aims to 1 to present an overview of how the relationship between brief narrative forms and macrostructures developed in the second half of the twentieth century 2 to question the hypothesis as to how the categorization of macro text may be widened
43. s challenged by stories about love as experienced by circus freaks in the rest of the volume The stories progress towards a culminating point at which readers cannot but realize that it must be the author s intention to critically respond to a culture s fear of difference Gowdy provokes her readers causes emotional disorientation and challenges the conventional binary distinctions between normality and abnormality the self and the other good and evil the human and the non human or the monstrous She moreover seems to fuel the reader s acceptance of difference by using humour and the comic grotesque throughout the entire volume CATHERINE THEWISSEN UC LOUVAIN When you write it s like braiding your hair Edwidge Danticat s The Dew Breaker and the Composite Novel Ethnic fiction demonstrates a proliferation of the composite novel a form which until now has been mostly defined within the Euro American literary tradition G Maylor s The Women of Brewster Place 1982 L Erdrich s Love Medicine 1984 L M Silko s Storyteller 1981 and S Alexie s Ten Little Indians 2003 among others emblematize how ethnic writers engage with the specifics of this narrative genre This paper looks at one such composite novel The Dew Breaker 2004 by the Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat which is a collection of nine stories focusing on both the perpetrators responsible for state sponsored violence under the brutal regime of Fra
44. situ litt ralement sur la route vers la ville natale d Anderson Clyde en Ohio et qui pr sente des grotesques encore plus violents et d sesp r s sur la vie dans la pauvret la fronti re des Appalaches Et encore Stygo de Laura Hendrie 1994 un recueil dont la dette et l affinit avec Winesburg Ohio est particuli rement vidente dans sa repr sentation des vies lamentable de personnages qui m nent une existence dans une ville du sud du Colorado domin e par une compagnie qui cultive des betteraves et pratique le raffinage du sucre La toile de fond de ces deux recueils suppose progressivement de plus grandes dimensions et sa construction spatiale constitue le noyau qui unit la vie des personnages en les liant de diff rentes mani res tout en les confinant dans un isolement continu dans la mesure o ils sont incapables de se lier au niveau macrotextuel en tant que membres d une m me communaut Ainsi l unit et la coh rence formelle construite par le lecteur malgr la r ticence disjonctive du genre est finalement sup rieure celle des communaut s elles m mes qui semblent rejeter la possibilit d une existence tout fait coh rente RENE AUDET UNIVERSITE LAVAL QUEBEC Lier lire d lier po tique du recueil et po tique de la diffraction partir des contextes des litt ratures fran aise et qu b coise contemporaines je me propose de r fl chir aux l ments de d finition d une po tique du recueil
45. son de nouvelles est par exemple une variante moderne du roman grec ou romain qui n tait pas un roman au sens actuel mais plut t un r cit construit par pisodes comme les perles d un collier proche du mod le de la combinaison Ce r cit pisodes a t la forme fictionnelle majeure jusqu l apparition du roman moderne La conf rence abordera la question de la naissance du roman au dix huiti me si cle et remettra en question son h g monie ult rieure On a souvent fait de la combinaison une forme fictionnelle hybride quelque chose entre le roman et le recueil de nouvelles alors qu elle s inscrit encore une fois dans une tradition mill naire en comparaison c est bien davantage le roman moderne qui est un genre hybride La deuxi me partie de la conf rence se concentrera sur la tension entre les forces narratives centrip tes et centrifuges dans la combinaison de nouvelles et le film pisodes De nombreux critiques et chercheurs avec certes des exceptions se sont concentr s sur l analyse des techniques d unification dans ces formes artistiques en cherchant dans ces textes une coh rence essentielle et un d terminisme interne En tant que bons aristot liciens confiants en l organicisme et dans l homog n isation ils sont essay de rapprocher le composite du roman Mais le composite de nouvelles n est pas un roman il est galement davantage caract ris par des strat gies narra
46. stance gangs of ruthless girls terrorize an all female city and expose the inhabitants revolutionary love as the idle chatter of spoiled girls Brown 129 Brown s collections then provide an important counter voice they dramatize the darker aspects of the queer community and formally underline the unavoidable but all too often ignored tension between the imperative of unity in the rainbow coalition of sexual and gender minorities and the inevitability of individual isolation The narrative of community originally theorized as an expression of harmonious communal life allows Brown to disrupt the predominant illusion of a lesbian community from within a fictional project that may further help to revitalize theoretical debate on the genre itself USEFUL CONTACT DETAILS COORDONNEES UTILES Irish college in Leuven The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe Janseniusstraat 1 Leuven Belgium Tel 32 16 310 430 reception leuveninstitute eu The KU Leuven Faculty of Arts department of Literary Studies KU Leuven Facult des arts D partement d tudes litt raires Staff offices and Faculty library bureaux du personnel et biblioth que de la facult Blijde Inkomststraat 21 postbus 3301 Leuven tel 32 16 32 50 10 fax 32 16 32 47 13 Central University Library Mer Ladeuzeplein 21 Leuven tel 32 16 32 4660 fax 32 16 32 4691 centrale bibliotheek bib kuleuven be Restaurant Mykene Muntstraa
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48. te the theoretical contraposition between modernity and continuity of the SSC recueil de nouvelles structur raccolta di narrative breve strutturata in Western literature It further proposes an interaction between the three cited theories by insisting on their complementarity and by the application of SSC theory on Romance literature CRISTINA GRECO UNIVERSITA LA SAPIENZA ROMA Fronti res et traductions Les recueils de r cits du roman graphique A partir du paradigme de la s miotique de la culture on entend articuler l enqu te sur l tude des potentialit s de dialogue et change entre micro textes dans un m me espace qui r unit formes diff rentes d organisation textuelle comme l ments h t rog nes indispensables l ensemble En r f rence l id e de s miosph re propos e par Jurij M Lotman 1966 o chaque syst me volue avec d autres syst mes nous ferons appel des consid rations sur les concepts de fronti re et de traduction et sur les jeux de passage du sens et de dialogue entre des syst mes autonomes Nous ferons r f rence aussi la pens e que Lotman perfectionne dans les essais r unis dans le texte Il girotondo delle muse 1998 dans lesquels il s interroge sur le probl me de l unitariet et sur le risque que pour l atteindre on peut oublier ce qui s oppose Ces hypoth ses interpr tatives d plac s sur un territoire diff rent pourraient nous aider r fl chir sur le fonction
49. tives qui r duisent la pleine similitude et au lieu de favoriser le dialogique ouvrent la narration Dans l affrontement entre homog n isation et dispositifs narratifs h t rog nes nous devrions en tant que critiques consacrer une gale attention chacun des deux p les Les l ments narratifs centrip tes sont nombreux J identifie par exemple quatre genres de nouvelles savoir le cycle de nouvelles la s quence de nouvelles le cluster de nouvelles et le recueil de nouvelles plusieurs de ces sous cat gories tant aussi applicables au film pisodes Ces sous genres contribuent travers leurs structures respectives unifier le composite de nouvelles Mais il existe aussi d autres moyens narratifs pour produire de la coh rence Les nouvelles individuelles sont li es par exemple des v nements comme les mariages les f tes et les enterrements D autres composites sont structur s autour d un accident d autres encore se concentrent sur un objet une voiture ou un instrument de musique qui est amen transiter d un propri taire l autre dont les histoires sont alors relat es Les forces contraires qui tendent d stabiliser le lecteur sont galement nombreuses Le composite de nouvelles et le film pisodes sont la base des uvres ouvertes r sistant l homog n isation Leurs manoeuvres centrifuges consistent r duire l accent mis sur la causalit et la lin arit
50. usk The Lucky Ones 2003 and Arlington Park 2006 MATTHYS DUYCK UNIVERSITEIT GENT The short story cycle in Western literature modernity continuity and generic implications The thesis of the short story cycle SSC as a modern form has been proposed by number of scholars leading them to consider works belonging to the pre modern tradition often symbolically represented by the duo Decameron Canterbury Tales as historical precedents Luscher 153 Kennedy 9 in which the external framing device is primarily an excuse for grouping together a potpourri of tales Dunn amp Morris 21 Other studies on the SSC however tend to focus on the historical continuity of the genre albeit on different grounds some reconsider the function of the framing device and the possibility of relatedness between the various pieces Alderman 14 63 Nagel 2 while others insist on the open structure of the story cycle and the multidimensionality inherent to the form Lund n 7 March Russell 107 The focus on continuity links SSC theory to non Anglo Saxon theories such as Italian macrotext theory Corti Segre Cappello and Francophone th orie du recueil a o Ricard Audet This diachronic shift of perspective has various theoretical implications regarding not only questions of genre history and genre memory but the autonomy of the genre itself does the genericity of the SSC depend on the short forms it contains This paper aims to investiga
51. uv e par un tre qui ne connait que les lois naturelles face un v nement en apparence surnaturel Le recueil devient un corollaire synth tique des plus grands drames sociaux de notre poque comme la marginalisation la pauvret et la violence silencieuses des r alit s urbaines tout en demandant une lecture qui puisse en relever les liens avec la tradition du conte merveilleux dont les racines historiques ont t analys es par Propp dans sa recherche sur la narration orale et la fable populaire Par le rythme po tique de chaque conte le recueil tient de la circularit it rative de la fable tout en faisant le portrait d une soci t fragment e dont la multiplicit des voix et des r alit s culturelles ne permet pourtant pas d aboutir une unit narrative L image de la ronde devient embl matique d une circularit labyrinthique sans issue dont le recueil dresse le portrait travers les p r grinations solitaires des personnages DEBBIE BROUCKMANS KU LEUVEN The first Irish Short Story Cycles Barlow and Somerville amp Ross s Narratives of Community In this paper will argue that Jane Barlow s Irish Idylls 1892 and Somerville amp Ross s Irish R M collections rather than James Joyce s Dubliners 1914 form the starting point in the history of the modern Irish short story cycle Barlow s Irish Idylls and Somerville amp Ross s Irish R M are collections of short stories unified by a shared thoug
52. writers chair Ailsa Cox Marcia Carlson Universiteit Antwerpen Danticat s Nonfiction Cycle Fact Mimicking Fiction Mimicking Fact Catherine Thewissen Universit Catholique de Louvain When you write it s like braiding your hair Edwidge Danticat s The Dew Breaker and the Composite Novel Tudor Balinisteanu University of Suceava Women s Identities and the Masculine Folktale Tradition in r cits du roman graphique Eilis Ni Dhuibhne s The Inland Ice 15 00 15 30 Coffee break Pause caf 15 30 17 00 Concepts theories questions II chair Bart Van den Bossche Alda Correia New University in Lisbon Regional Dissonance Space and Landscape in the short story cycle Alessandro Viti Universita di Siena Macrotesto original conceptualization of the term and its possible extension Matthijs Duyck Universiteit Gent The short story cycle in Western literature modernity continuity and generic implications 19 00 Conference dinner diner conf rence Reastaurant Mykene Muntstraat 44 Leuven Thursday 24 May 9 00 10 30 Readers and writers lrish literature chair Dagmar Vandebosch chair Elke D hoker Carmen Van den Bergh Rapha l Ingelbien KULeuven KULeuven A novel full of Re cycling short stories as short stories The suspense narratives of imagined community between autonomous and faking
53. y engage in empty pursuits as their lives intersect in Los Angeles during the 1980s and or Laura Hendrie s Stygo 1994 a short story cycle whose debt to and affinity with Winesburg Ohio is most evident in its portrayal of the hardscrabble lives of the struggling grotesques eking out an existence in a sugar beet growing and refining town in southern Colorado dominated by the Red Spot corporation In all of these short story cycles as the backdrop progressively assumes greater dimensions its spatial construction forms the web that seams their lives together binding them in multiple definitions of the word yet consigning them to their own continued isolation as they fall short of connecting on a macrotextual level as members of a community so that the volume s formal unity and coherence despite the disjunctive recalcitrance of the genre may ultimately be greater than that of the communities they inhabit together Traduction francaise A partir de Winesburg L esth tique spatio temporelle des recueils de r cits brefs r gionaux dans l am rique contemporaine Souvent clips par le k nstlerroman de George Willard qui conf re a Winesburg Ohio une dimension temporelle en constante volution et un d veloppement narratif plut t libre la ville de Winesburg n est pas seulement le fond sur lequel peindre les r ves de sa masculinit On peut consid rer qu il s agit du param tre le plus crucial permettant d assurer au n
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