Pleasure In the Text – Pleasure Of The Text

Skepsi’s Third International and Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

University of Kent in Paris

17 April 2010, Paris, Reid Hall – Salle de conférence

Sponsored by the School of European Culture and Languages and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Kent

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Conference Programme

9.00 Welcome

9.20 Conference Introduction (Professor Peter Read, Director of the University of Kent in Paris)

9.30 – 10.30 On Tragedy: Pleasure as an Aesthetic Emotion

Chair: Harriet Clements

*Chiara Chinello (University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’), Pleasure in Oedipus Rex

*Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone (University of Kent), The Tragicomic: Marston’s Antonio Plays

10.30 – 10.50 Coffee break

10.50 – 11.50 Pleasure and Pain in/of the Text

Chair: Fabien Arribert-Narce

*Ingrid Vendrell (CISA, Université de Genève), An Intriguing Paradox of the Heart: Literary Pleasure in Negative Emotions

*Christian Moretti (University of Kent), Can Pleasure Be an Effective Therapy for Suffering? The Cases of Morante’s L’Isola di Arturo and Tusquets’ Con la miel en los labios

12.00 – 13.00 The Revelatory Nature of Readerly Pleasure

Chair: Kamilla Pawlikowska

*Julia Andres (Bielefeld University, Germany), Food for Thought: The Pleasures of Reading Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate

*Wissia Fiorucci (University of Kent), ‘Always Skulking behind the Written Work’: Reading Readerly Pleasure in Maraini’s The Silent Duchess

13.00 – 14.15 Lunch (buffet at Reid Hall)

14.15 – 15.45 Intellectual Pleasure in Textual Resistance

Chair: Mélanie Foehn

*Dana Mills (University of Oxford), Reading against the Grain

*Marco Bernini (University of Parma), Narrative Ridges. Beckett’s Company and the Cognitive Dialogism

*Anna Borisenkova (State University, Moscow), Reading a Scientific Text: Could it be pleasant at all?

15.45 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 17.30 Reading as an Orgy of the Senses

Chair: Alvise Sforza Tarabochia

*Mattia Marino (University of Salford, Greater Manchester), Intertextual Delights in Perfume, Silk, and Antichrist

*Nausicaa Dewez (Université Rennes 2, Haute Bretagne), Reading with one Hand only or Dropping the Book
*Sarah Katrib (University of Strasbourg), The Poetic and Symbolic Representation of Eroticism in The Man Who Died by D.H. Lawrence

17.30 – 18.00 Concluding remarks and wine reception

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