Northern Modernism Seminar
Hosted in conjunction with “Outrageously Modern!” exhibition of Fin-De-Siècle and Modernist Magazines
Deane Room, Palace Green Library
Durham University
17 February 2012
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10.15-10.45 Registration & Coffee
10.45-11.00
Welcome: Dr. Simon James
11.00-12:10
Professor Ann Banfield (University of California, Berkeley)
~ Samuel Beckett: A Few Images On and Off in the Mud
12.10-12.50
Dr Sandeep Parmar (Clare Hall, Cambridge University)
~ Unexpectedly Modern: Hope Mirrlees’s Paris
Chair: Professor Patricia Waugh
12.50-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.40
Matthew Hayward (Durham University)
~ “The specially new fizzing style”: Joyce’s ‘Nausicaa’ and the Language of Women’s Advertising
2.40-3.20
Emily Ridge (Durham University)
~ Late Modernist Luggage: The Politics of Packing in Henry Green’s Party Going and Pack My Bag
Chair: Dr. John Nash
3.20-3.50 Tea & Coffee
3.50-4.30
Sarah Kennedy (St. John’s College, Cambridge University)
~ From elaborate music to “lucid stillness”: T. S. Eliot’s Shakespearean patterns
Chair: Dr. Jason Harding
4.30 Close of Symposium
Organised by Jason Harding, Simon James & Emily Ridge