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Conference Programme (final, July 2007)
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| 9 - 10 am |
REGISTRATION
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| 10 - 10.30am |
Welcome and Orientation |
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G - 18 |
G- 36 |
G - 38 |
10.30 - 11.30am |
Sensing Being and Meaning |
The Heart and its loss |
Aesthetics |
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Simone, Emma, ‘Virginia Woolf and the
Sensation of Being-in-the-world’
Uhlmann, Anthony, The sense of intention and the sensation of meaning in Nabokov's Despair |
Williams, Jordan, Toy literature and real authors
Lyssa, Alison, Theatre as agent of the heart in its struggle against annihilation, in Wesley Enoch, Black Medea, and Stephen Sewell, Gates of Egypt. |
Kumar, Niven, 'Reason' and 'Sensation' in Kafka and Borges
Williams, Peter, Getting real: absorption, coolness and aesthetic bliss |
| 11.30 - 12pm |
Morning Tea |
| 12 -
1.30pm |
Spiritual Senses |
Poetry and Affect |
Managing and Stage- Managing Sensation |
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Brown, Lachlan, ‘Deep Inside the Things of the World’: the Visible and Invisible in Kevin Hart’s Poetry
Connolly, Michele, Gospel of John: A Synaesthesic Encounter with the Spiritual
Seger, Natalie, Meditations on Sensation: Judith Beveridge’s ‘From the Palace to the Bodhi Tree’ |
Cassidy, Bonny, The music of fact: the poem as organism
Magee, Paul, Yielding : the senses in 20 contemporary Australian poets
Hazel Smith, soundAFFECTs: transcoding, writing, new media, affect |
D’Arcens, Louise,The Round Table and Other Furniture: Sensing the Medieval Past on the Nineteenth Century Australian Stage
Dunstan, Angie, Stunner: The Sensation of Elizabeth Siddal
Payne, Geoff: Managing sensation: incestuous desire in Joanna Baillie's De Montfort |
| 1.30 - 2.30pm |
Lunch (River Bar Building EN) |
| 2.30 - 4pm |
Novel |
Expressing sensation to the public |
Unexpected Senses |
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Barrett, Lindsay, Patrick White and Voss
Gercken, Cassandra, The manufacture and purpose of sensation…the affective power of
Christina Stead’s novels
Görümlü, Özlem, Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities: An Issue of Identity |
Soltanzadeh, Zeynab, Literature and Sensation: poetic sense and sensibility
McCooey, David: Fine lines: poetry in film
Danta, Chris, Sarah's laughter Kafka's Abraham |
McDonald, Donna, The Art of Being Deaf
Savage, Robert, Erocide is painless. Insensation in Les Murray's Fredy Neptune
Sheehan, Paul, Murder most artful: De Quincey and the work of darkness |
| 4 - 4.30pm |
Afternoon tea |
| 4.30 - 5.30pm |
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Derek Attridge
Bad Sex: Coetzee and Beckett
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| 9 - 9.30 am |
REGISTRATION
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G - 18 |
G- 36 |
G - 38 |
| 9.30-11am |
Literature and Philosophy |
Joyce |
From Fiction to ‘the real’ (Crime) |
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Conti, Chris, Adorno on 'Aesthetic Negativity'
Edmonds, Anne, Heidegger and the Origin of the Work of Art
Vardoulakis, Dimitris, Sensing Language, Sensing Literature |
Martin, William, The Sensible and the Intelligible in Joyce's Ulysses
McLaren, Stephen, Making sense of Portrait’s villanelle
O’Leary, Timothy, “The Perils of Experience: sensation in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” |
McLean Davies, Larissa, Sensational Stories: Helen Garner and the Failure of Fiction
Newton, P. M., Beyond the “Sensation Novel”: Contemporary crime literature — sharing the sensations of the real world
Melinda Jewell, The metaphor of dance in Australian novels |
| 11 - 11.30am |
Morning Tea |
| 11.30am -1.00pm |
Beckett |
Contemporary |
Romance and History |
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Cordingley, Anthony, Beckett’s Mudspeak
Gourley, James, "Whenever said said said missaid": Beckett's Worstward Ho and DeLillo's the Body Artist
Smith, Russell, Walking … Stumbling … Falling … Lying Down: Beckettian operations in the work of Francis Alÿs, Ugo Rondinone and John Barbour |
Gibson, Suzie, Sensation and Resistance in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Kossew, Sue, “Pip in the Pacific”: Reading and Sensation in Lloyd Jones’s Mr Pip
Takolander, Maria, The sensational imagination: Ian McEwan’s Saturday |
Mitchell, Kate, Sensational Knowledge: Reading as Romance in A.S. Byatt’s Possession
Wilson, Kim Maree, ‘Living History in Historical Fiction: a past to excite the senses’
Webb, Caroline, Sensation, Pornography, Guilt: Angela Carter's Seduction of the Reader in "The Bloody Chamber" |
| 1 - 2pm |
Lunch (River Bar, Building EN) |
| 2 - 3pm |
Intoxication |
Reading, writing and affect |
Sense, nonsense and the weather |
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Fleming, Chris, Hallucinogens, thought and writing
Kelen, Chris, Inebriations of the Tang - responses in kind
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Gibbs, Anna and Maria Angel, On Moving and Being Moved
Denham, Ben, Difficult sense: the neuro-physical dimensions of the act of reading |
Hamilton, Jennifer, “In the winter, of course, that amusement would come to an end”
Tuckwell, Jason, 'Post-Structuralism',
Anthropology, Literature.
The sense and nonsense in Carlos Castaneda |
| 3-3.30pm |
Meeting / Information Session of the
Australasian Association for Literature
G - 18
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| 3.30 - 4pm |
Afternoon tea |
| 4 - 5pm |
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Brian Boyd
The Art of Literature and the Science of Literature |
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