This will be the fourth in a series of biennial seminars devoted to
the topic of liminality; the first three were held in March 1999, April
2001, March 2003. The articles that resulted from them have already
appeared as three volumes in the series Studies in Liminality
and Literature, edited by THE
GATEWAY PRESS: A
Place That Is Not a Place (ed. Isabel Soto, 2000), Betwixt-and-Between
(ed. Philip Sutton, 2002), and Mapping
the Threshold (ed. Nancy
Bredendick, 2004). Both the Seminar and the serial publication are part
of an ongoing research project on ‘Threshold and Text’.
The proceedings will be published as a collection of essays in the SLL
series in The
Gateway Press.
Last
Update:
February 27, 2005
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Some titles may
be subject to slight alteration. There will be ample scope for debate
after each lecture, and a Round Table is scheduled for TUE 15.
English
will be the working language. Talks will last up to 50 minutes. Ample
time will be allocated for discussion. We have welcomed position papers
arguing a specific point, and discouraged survey or generalistic approaches
as well as routine applications of existing theories to ‘yet another
text’.
Coffee
and tea will be served during the debates.
Seminar
abstracts are available here.
All
lectures will take place in the Facultad de Filosofía
y Letras, Room VI - bis.301.
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MONDAY 14 March
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TUESDAY 15 March
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9.00-9.10
Isabel Soto, UNED
Seminar opening
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9.30-10.20
Hendrik Viljoen, University of Potchefstroom
“Figuring
the Liminal in Breyten Breytenbach’s Prison Poetry”
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9.10-10.00
Ana Manzanas, University of Valladolid
“At the
Church Gate: Emptying Out the Premises of Realism in Thomas King’s
Truth and Bright Water”
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10.20-10.50
Debate |
10.00-10.30
Debate |
10.50-11.40
Isabel Soto, UNED
“Strategies
of Doubling in African American Narrative”
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10.30-11.20
Ineke Bockting
“Haunted
Borderlands: The Sense of the Gothic in Texts of the American
South”
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11.40-12.10
Debate |
11.20-11.50
Debate |
13.00-15.00
LUNCH |
11.50-12.40
David Murray, University of Nottingham
“Liminality,
Hybridity and Identity in Native American Texts” |
15.00-15.50
Philip Sutton, UAM
“Beyond
the Looking Glass: Liminality and Screen” |
12.40-13.10
Debate |
15.50-16.20
Debate |
13.10-15.00
LUNCH |
16.20-17.10
Robert Samuels, The Open University
Music as Narrative’s
Limit and Supplement |
15.00-15.50
Manuel Aguirre, UAM
“Liminal Terror: The Poetics of Gothic Space” |
17.10-17.40
Debate |
15.50-16.20
Debate
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17.40-18.40
Miriam Mandel, Tel-Aviv University
Round table |
16.20-17.10
Alan Rice, University of Central Lancashire
“Sea Shore/Sea-borne
Texts: The Racial Politics of Liminality in Black Atlantic Discourses
from Sambo’s Grave (1736) to Lubaina Himid’s
Naming the Money (2004)”
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18.40
Seminar closure |
17.10-17.40
Debate
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