"Hello, I Say, It's Me":
(Re)Constructions of Subjectivity
in Contemporary Literature
and Culture
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in Contemporary Literature
and Culture
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Program FRIDAY, APRIL 4 10:00 – 1:00 pm Registration 1:30 pm Welcoming Remarks 2:00 – 2:45 pm PANEL I: (Re) Inscribing the Subject in Literary History and Literary Theory SASCHA PÖHLMANN (MÜNCHEN): ‘The Solipsist Errs’: Narrating I² in Shelley Jackson’s Half Life (2006) 2:45 – 3:00 pm Coffee Break 3:00 – 4:30 pm JAN D. KUCHARZEWSKI (DÜSSELDORF): "I wasn’t the genre I thought I was": Re-Inscribing the Subject into the (Post?)-Postmodern Autobiography HANNA MERETOJA (TURKU): From Problematization to Rehabilitation of Subjectivity in the French Postwar Novel: Alain Robbe-Grillet's In the Labyrinth and Michel Tournier's The Erl-King 4:30 – 5:00 pm Coffee Break
5:00 – 6:45 pm PANEL II: Contemporary Subjects in Crisis SIRKKA KNUUTTILA (HELSINKI): The Postrational Subject and the Challange of Expressing Traumatic Memory ALEXANDER DUNST (NOTTINGHAM): Post-Schizophrenia, Post-Postmodernism: Dialogical Subjectivity and the Return of the Other 7:00 pm Dinner SATURDAY, APRIL 5 9:30 – 11:00 am PANEL III: Embodied Subjectivities ANJA MÜLLER-WOOD (MAINZ): Being 'Me' and Being Dead: The New Materialism in Contemporary British Fiction MARKUS M. MÜLLER (TRIER): Adolescence Forever Lost or Regained? Aging Subjects in North American Novels 11:00 – 11:15 am Coffee Break 11:15 – 1:15 pm PANEL IV: Renegotiating the Postcolonial Subject EVA GRUBER (KONSTANZ): Repositioning the Racialized Subject N.N. PIETER VERMEULEN (LEUVEN): Beyond Melancholy: Lyric Subjectivity in Chang-Rea Lee's Native Speaker
2:30 – 4:30 pm PANEL V: Narrating subjectivities DENNIS KERSTEN (NIJMEGEN): Life after the Death of the Author: The Adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson in Contemporary Biographical Fiction
NICOLE SCHRÖDER (PADERBORN): Narrating (My) Self: Subjectivity in Recent American Novels
4:30 – 5:00 pm Final Discussion and Conclusion
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