Dorothy Richardson 1873 – 1957
Dorothy Richardson Society
The Long Modernist Novel: A Comparative Conference 2014
Wednesday 23 - Thursday 24 April, 2014
The Peltz Room
Birkbeck College
43-46 Gordon Square
London
Programme
Wednesday
9.30 Registration and Coffee
10.15 Opening Remarks
10.30 Keynote 1 Michael Bell (University of Warwick) The Long Modernist Novel: A Question of Genre
11.30 Coffee
11.45 Panel 1
Elise Thornton Women see in terms of life’: Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and the Modernist Künstlerroman
Rebekah Lockyer (University of Birmingham) Deafening Music: Reading Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End through examination of the interplay between music and silence.
Rebecca Bowler (Keele University) Hospitality, Nostalgia, and the Itinerant Hero(ine) in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
1.15 Lunch
2.15 Panel 2
Michael Greaney, (Lancaster University) Narrating Sleep in Proust and Joyce
Andy Wimbush (University of Cambridge) ‘afterlife all life long’: Rebirth in Samuel Beckett’s novel ‘series’, via Proust and Schopenhauer
Mersiha Bruncevic (University of Gothenberg) The Dream as Experience in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu: A Phenomenological Study of the Oneiric Theme in Proust’s Work
3.45 Tea
4.00 Panel 3
Nicola Glaubitz, (Darmstadt University) Men and women without qualities in Musil and Stein
Villy Karagouni (University of Glasgow) Re-mapping Individual and Social Subjectivity: The Use of Stream of Consciousness in Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz and Dos Passos’s U.S.A.
5.00 Plenary Panel Tim Armstrong ‘The Distributed Novel in the 1930s’
Eveline Kilian ‘Alternative Temporalities: Dorothy Richardson and Marcel Proust’
Kate McLoughlin ‘Reading Scenes / Scenes of Reading in Henry James and Dorothy Richardson’
7.00 Drinks Reception
8.00 Dinner
Thursday
9.45 Keynote 2
Jeremy Tambling ‘Retu(r)ning the Key to All Mythologies: The Modernist Long Novel’
10.45 Coffee
11.00 Panel 4
Susan Reid Song books: The musical modernism of D. H. Lawrence and Dorothy Richardson
Tamara Radak (Vienna University) Stop All the Clocks: Pauses and Nonlinear Time Frames in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
Urvashi Vashist (UCL) ‘beginning again and again and again’ through The Years
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Panel 5 Vladimir Feshchenko and Emily Wright “Stranger than Fiction”: E.E. Cummings' EIMI as a Long Novel Travelogue
Stephen Rogers Imagism, Syntax and the Construction of the Long Modernist Novel
Jessica Siu-yin Yeung (Hong Kong Baptist University) The Precursors of British Modernist Women Writers and the Nested Bildungsroman: Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day and Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
3.00 Roundtable on the Long Modernist Novel.
4.00 Conference Close