Friday, April 28- Literature and Politics- A19 and Paris Diderot LARCA invite George Shulman and Juliette Utard.

A19 and LARCA (Research Laboratory in Anglophone Culture, Paris Diderot) invite George Shulman (Gallatin School, NYU) and Juliette Utard (Paris Sorbonne, VALE, LARCA-CNRS) on Friday, April 28, 2017.

The seminar will take place at 2 pm, at Université Paris Diderot, Bât. Olympe de Gouges, room 163..

George Shulman (Gallatin School of NYU): “Postmortem Effects: Impasse and Genre in American Politics and Literature”

“At a moment of historical impasse and national division, George Shulman claims that profound insight is found not in the texts typically canonized as “American Political Thought,” but in the fictions and poetry of literary artists from Melville and Whitman to Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison. To explore what is unspeakable in American politics, its unsaid axioms and disavowed conditions of possibility, the literature repeatedly forgoes a realist aesthetic; instead, literary artists use genres of fabulation to dramatize how national romances of self-making and more perfect union generate tragedy, ghosts, horror, and farce. Representing the return of what is repressed by prevailing political languages of liberalism, nationalism, and individualism, such fictions at once probe and embody the meaning of the political by dramatizing the fictionality at its core.”

George Shulman teaches Political Theory and American Studies at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He received his PhD in Political Science and American Studies from University of California, Berkeley, in 1982. The American Political Science Association awarded his second book, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Politics (2008, Minnesota) the David Eastman Prize for “best book in political theory.” He has published essays relating political theory and literary studies, as well as Political Theology and Critical Race Theory.

 

Juliette Utard (Paris-Sorbonne, VALE, LARCA-CNRS): The American Poetry Collection and the Trials of Federal Democracy: “Necro Citizenship” in Spoon River Anthology (1915) by Edgar Lee Masters
Looking at American poetry from the vantage point of the US model of federal democracy, this talk undertakes a (political) reading of Edgar Lee Masters’ striking collection of epitaph-poems Spoon River Anthology (1915, 1916) a hundred years after it was first published. Not quite the nostalgic, agrarian myth of rural Midwest it has come to embody, Spoon River Anthology uncovers a vast necropolis where the (dis)united dead of America lie side by side as “necro citizens.” “[T]he only democracy—the graveyard” then, as one of the poems suggests? Russ Castronovo reminds us that “Not all subjects lie still in democracy’s graveyard.” In fact a hundred years on, Spoon River Anthology reads as a critical laboratory of democracy that repeatedly challenges the US political model, investigating modes of poetic assemblage together with new forms of political assembly.

Juliette Utard teaches American literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and is currently on leave at LARCA. She is the author of Wallace Stevens : Une poétique du fini (forthcoming, Honoré Champion) and co-editor of Wallace Stevens, Poetry and France (forthcoming, “Actes de la Recherche,” Éditions rue d’Ulm). Her current research focuses on the American poetry book and its editorial, critical and political issues in the digital age.

LIterature and Politics- April 28

 

The Bible in Nineteenth-Century American Literature – March 31

A19 invites Agnès Derail (Ecole normale supérieure, Paris), Michel Imbert (Paris Diderot/LARCA) and Bruno Monfort (Nanterre University) who contributed to the section devoted to nineteenth-century American Literature in Sylvie Parizet (ed.)  La Bible dans les littératures du monde, Editions du Cerf, 2016.

The seminar will take place on Friday, March 31, at 2 pm, at Université Paris Diderot, Bât. Olympe de Gouges, room 103.

Vendredi 3 mars, 14h30, Université Paris Diderot, Bât ODG, salle 103

Le vendredi 3 mars, A19 tient une séance double et doublement internationale autour des travaux d’Erica Fretwell (University at Albany-SUNY) et Michael Collins (School of English, University of Kent).

Erica Fretwell, actuellement « junior fellow » au Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, est sur le point d’achever un ouvrage intitulé With Feeling: The Senses and Social Life in Nineteenth-Century America. Elle est notamment l’auteur de

  • “Stillness Is a Move: Helen Keller and the Kin-aesthetics of Autobiography” American Literary History 25.3 (Fall 2013): 563 – 587
  • “Emily Dickinson in Domingo” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 1.1 (Spring 2013): 71 – 96.

Sa communication est intitulée  « Body Images ». Il y sera question de membres fantômes dans la littérature et la photographie américaines du milieu du XIXe siècle.

Michael Collins vient de publier The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800 – 1865 (University of Michigan Press, 2016) dont il viendra nous parler.

https://www.press.umich.edu/9241322/drama_of_the_american_short_story_1800_1865

M. Collins travaille actuellement sur un autre livre centré sur la fiction réaliste et provisoirement intitulé After Haymarket: Class and Culture in the American Gilded Age. 

Le titre de sa communication : « The Gestural Politics and Poetics of the Short Story. »

Le séminaire se tiendra à partir de 14h 30 en salle 103, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, et sera suivi du traditionnel pot.

La prochaine séance aura lieu le vendredi 31 mars où les auteurs de la partie consacrée à la Bible dans la littérature américaine du XIXe siècle dans l’ouvrage récemmen paru, La Bible dans les littératures du monde (dir. Sylvie Parizet, Editions du Cerf, 2016), viendront nous présenter les résultats de leurs investigations.

ENGLISH VERSION:

A19 (https://a19.hypotheses.org/) invites Erica Fretwell (University at Albany-SUNY) and Michael Collins (School of English, the University of Kent).

Erica Fretwell will give a talk entitled “Body Images” in which she will be discussing phantom limbs and theories of disembodiment across mid-nineteenth century literature and photographs.

Erica Fretwell is currently completing a book project, With Feeling: The Senses and Social Life in Nineteenth-Century America, that brings together the philosophical, scientific, and materialist histories of sense perception to understand how the five senses functioned in the era of Jim Crow. She is the author of (for example) of “Stillness Is a Move: Helen Keller and the Kin-aesthetics of Autobiography” (American Literary History (Fall 2013)) and “Emily Dickinson in Domingo” (J19 (Spring 2013)).

Michael Collins’s talk will follow: “The Gestural Politics and Poetics of the Short Story.”

Michael Collins’s first monograph, entitled The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800 – 1865, came out in October 2016 with University of Michigan Press. In the book he develops a new generic theory of the antebellum short story by utilising performance and ritual theory. https://www.press.umich.edu/9241322/drama_of_the_american_short_story_1800_1865

His second area of research concerns how realist fiction explores the effect of emergent theories of culture upon radical, transnational conceptions of class solidarity. The planned monograph is entitled After Haymarket: Class and Culture in the American Gilded Age. 

The seminar will take place at 2.30 pm, room 103, Bâtiment “Olympe-de-Gouges”, Université Paris Diderot, 8 place Paul-Ricoeur, 75013, métro/RER Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand, Paris. plan-olympe-de-gouges

Contact: cecile.roudeau@gmail.com

“The Divine Magnet”- Friday, January 20, 2.30pm, Paris-Diderot, Bâtiment Sophie Germain, Université Paris Diderot, salle 0010

La prochaine séance de l’atelier A19 (LARCA-UMR 8225) aura lieu le vendredi 20 janvier à 14h30 (salle 0010, bâtiment Sophie Germain) à Paris Diderot autour de la récente publication de dix lettres de Melville à Hawthorne, dans une édition de Mark Niemeyer (Orison Books, 2016)

La séance sera consacrée à une conversation autour de cet ouvrage.

Mark Niemeyer (Université de Bourgogne): “The Divine Magnet: Melville’s Writings to and about Hawthorne”

Michel Imbert (Paris Diderot, LARCA) et Bruno Monfort (Paris Ouest-Nanterre) seront discutants.

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The A19 workshop at Université Paris-Didérot-LARCA-UMR 8225 will host a seminar on Mark Niemeyer’s edition of Herman Melville’s Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne (Orison Books, 2016) with Agnès Derail (ENS) as respondent.

Mark NIEMEYER is is professor of American literature and American history at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France. His research focuses on nineteenth-century writings of the antebellum period and is frequently concerned with questions related to cultural nationalism and national identity. He has published numerous articles and is co-editor of several editions of works by Herman Melville, including the French “Folio Classique” edition of Mardi (2011), the Norton Critical edition of The Confidence-Man (2005), and the French “Pléiade” editions of Mardi (1997) and Moby-Dick (2006)

The seminar will take place on Friday, January 20 at 2.30 pm, Bâtiment “Sophie GERMAIN”, Université Paris Diderot, métro/RER Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand, Paris. plan-olympe-de-gouges

The Divine Magnet:
Herman Melville’s Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne

edited with an introduction by
Mark Niemeyer

foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
Paul Harding

105 pp

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“The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds. Which is the biggest? A foolish question—they are One.”—Melville to Hawthorne

Radical Calenders-December, 9, 2PM.

The A19 (https://a19.hypotheses.org/) workshop at Université Paris-Didérot-LARCA-UMR 8225 will host a seminar on J. Michelle Coghlan’s “Radical Calendars: The Paris Commune and Postbellum US Internationalism” with Quentin Deluermoz (Université Paris 13/Institut Universitaire de France) as respondent.

Michelle Coghlan is Lecturer at the University of Manchester and recent author of Sensational Internationalism: the Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh UP, 2016)

Quentin Deluermoz is author of numerous books, most recently (with Pierre Singaravélou) Pour une histoire des possibles (Seuil, 2016); Le crépuscule des révolutions, 1848-1871. Histoire de la France contemporaine, volume 3 (Paris, Le Seuil, 2012) and editor, with Anthony Glinoer, of L’insurrection entre histoire et littérature 1789-1914 (Paris, PUPS, 2015).

The seminar will take place on Friday, December 9 at 2 pm, room 103, Bâtiment “Olympe-de-Gouges”, 8 place Paul-Ricoeur, 75013, métro/RER Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand, Paris. plan-olympe-de-gouges

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For further information please contact: Professor Cécile Roudeau cecile.roudeau@gmail.com

 

Contact: cecile.roudeau@gmail.com

Friday, December 9- RADICAL CALENDERS

Le vendredi 9 décembre, A19 a le plaisir de recevoir pour son séminaire de rentrée J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester) pour une séance autour de son livre Sensational Internationalism: The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh UP, 2016).

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sensational-internationalism-12044.html

La communication de J. Michelle Coghlan  a pour titre: “Radical Calendars: The Paris Commune and Postbellum US Internationalism”.

Quentin Deluermoz (Univ Paris 13, historien), qui a notamment dirigé l’ouvrage collectif L’Insurrection entre histoire et littérature, 1789-1914 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2015) sera “répondant.”

http://www.publications-sorbonne.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=28405100429790

Le séminaire commencera à 14h. Il aura lieu en salle 103, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, Université Paris Diderot. plan-olympe-de-gouges

La séance sera suivie d’un pot auquel vous êtes chaleureusement conviés.

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