Thursday, November 28, 2019
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| 09:30 - 09:45 | Registration (Jardin d'Hiver) | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Opening words (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Christine Reynier (Head of Research Center EMMA, University Paul Valéry) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Interpellation and Counter-Interpellation in the Novel (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Keynote speaker Jean-Jacques Lecercle (Paris Ouest Nanterre University) |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | Questions & Answers (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) | |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Coffee break (Jardin d'Hiver) | |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Phatic, Polemical, and Metaleptic Addresses to Readers in William Gerhardie’s The Polyglots (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Catherine Hoffmann (University Le Havre) |
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| 12:05 - 12:30 | "I hope I shall please my readers": Negotiating the Author-Reader Relationship in Two Corpora of British Novels, 1778-1814 (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Juliette Misset (University of Strasbourg) |
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| 12:30 - 12:45 | Questions & Answers (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) | |
| 12:45 - 14:15 | Lunch (Salle Medicis) | |
| 14:15 - 14:40 | “If you really want to know about it”… Engaging the Reader through Direct Address in Contemporary American Literature (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Monica Michlin (Paul Valéry University – Montpellier 3) |
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| 14:40 - 15:05 | (Im)politeness Strategies in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Maurice Cronin (Paris Dauphine University) |
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| 15:05 - 15:20 | Questions & Answers (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee break (Jardin d'Hiver) | |
| 15:50 - 16:15 | Deciphering the Joycean Address: Elusive Authority and Reader Agency in Ulysses (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Olivier Hercend (Sorbonne University) |
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| 16:15 - 16:40 | “Now, normally, I wouldn’t be telling you this and you, I’m sure, would be happier if I wasn’t.” The Modern-Day Storyteller in Roddy Doyle’s Charlie Savage (2019) (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Léa Boichard (University Savoie Mont Blanc) |
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| 16:40 - 16:55 | Questions & Answers (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Banquet (L'Insensé 39 boulevard Bonne Nouvelle 34000 Montpellier) |
Friday, November 29, 2019
| Time | Event | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Morning coffee (Jardin d'Hiver) | |
| 09:45 - 10:45 | You, Me, and Dickens, Plus Lots of Others: The Communicational Intransitivity of Novels (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Keynote speaker Roger Sell (Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland) |
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| 10:45 - 11:10 | Humouring the English Reader: Readerly Involvement in Alan Bennett’s Prose Fiction (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Vanina Jobert-Martini & Manuel Jobert (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3) |
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| 11:10 - 11:35 | Self-help, Sufi Style: Double Deixis in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013) (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Delphine Munos (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany / Humboldt Foundation) |
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| 11:35 - 12:00 | Questions & Answers (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch (Salle Medicis) | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | “You know, are you you?”: Being versus Playing the Second-Person in Digital Fiction (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Keynote speaker Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) |
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| 14:30 - 14:55 | J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Textual Transitivity (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Katherine Doig (University of Paris 8) |
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| 14:55 - 15:15 | Questions & Answers (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee break (Jardin d'Hiver) | |
| 15:45 - 16:10 | Writing the Reader and/or Character in Ryan North’s To be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or Juliette (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Baharak Darougari (University of Strasbourg) |
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| 16:10 - 16:35 | “The Rest is Silence”: Readerly Wanderings in the Unsaid (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) - Claire Majola-Leblond (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3) |
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| 16:35 - 16:50 | Questions & Answers (Auditorium, Saint Charles 2) |
