Pushkin 1999
J.M. Andrew
j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk
Wed Jun 9 14:58:31 UTC 1999
With apologies to those who hace already received this ....
9 June 1999
Dear Colleague
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PUSHKIN: A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE
Mansfield College, Oxford, 13-15 September, 1999
We are pleased to announce this conference. About thirty papers will be
delivered at the conference, organised by the Neo-Formalist Circle to
celebrate the bicentenary in 1999 of the birth of Russia's national - and
greatest - writer. These papers will offer new readings of most of
Pushkin's key works. At the same time they will seek to locate him both
within the later traditions of Russian literature, by means of a series of
comparative discussions, and the broader European context, with examinations
of his influence on, or parallels with non-Russian writers. In keeping with
the traditons of the Neo-Formalist Circle, which celebrates its own more
modest, thirtieth anniversary in 2000, all the papers will be informed with
the latest thinking and approaches in literary theory and practice.
You will find with this letter a number of important things, namely:
1. The programme, now in time/panel format. It is likely that there
will be a few changes because of withdrawals etc, but it is likely to be
fairly close to the final version. Those wishing to make written
submissions to the collective analysis should contact Robin Milner-Gulland
direct at School of European Studies, Arts Building, University of Sussex,
Brighton, BN1 9QN, UK.
2. The booking form for the conference. All prices are in pounds
sterling. Please complete this with your requirements and return it by
email or mail as soon as possible and by Friday 6 August at the latest.
Unless it is very difficult for you to do so, we would much prefer that you
pay the full amount when booking. Payment will obviously have to be by
mail, and cheques should be made payable to Essays in Poetics'.
This promises to be an exciting (and busy!) Couple of days, so we hope
you'll be able to join us.
All good wishes
Joe Andrew
Robert Reid
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PUSHKIN
A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE
to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 13-15 September, 1999
under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle
Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK
PROGRAMME
Monday 13 September
12.30 Lunch
1.45 Panel I: Pushkin and Russian Culture
Joe Andrew (Keele): [She] was brought up on French novels and,
consequently, was in love': Russian Writers Reading and Writing Pushkin
Sander Brouwer (Groningen): Love in the Russian World: Erotic and
Social Unproductivity from Pushkin to Turgenev
Helena Goscilo (Pittsburgh): Casting and Recasting the Caucasian
Captive
Barbara Lonnqvist (Abo): The Pushkin Text in Anna Karenina'
3.45 Tea
4.00 Panel II: Pushkin Abroad
David Baguley (Durham): Pushkin and Merimee: the French Connection
Neil Cornwell (Bristol): Pushkin and Henry James
Alastair Renfrew (Strathclyde): Making a National Poet: Pushkin and
Burns
5.45 Panel III: Literary Relationships
Lyubov Kiseleva (Tartu): Pushkin and Shakhovskoi: the problem of
creative contacts
Willem Weststeijn (Amsterdam): Pushkin between Classicism,
Romanticism and Realism
7.00 Dinner
8.00 Collective Analysis
Robin Milner-Gulland (Sussex): Leads a Collective Analysis of
Zimniaia doroga'
Tuesday 14 September
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Panel IV: Stone Guests
David Bethea (Wisconsin): A Higher Audacity': How to Read Pushkin's
Dialogue with Shakespeare in The Stone Guest'
Andre G.F. van Holk (Groningen): Don-Juanism and Stylistic Code in
Pushkin's The Stone Guest'
Monica Lebron (Goldsmiths, London): French Perspectives on Pushkin's
Don Juan
Christoph Veldhues (Bochum): Love and Death in Nabokov's Death' and
Pushkin's The Stone Guest'
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Panel V: Pushkin and the Poets
Diana L. Burgin (Massachusetts): Tsvetaeva's Three Pushkins
Valentina Polukhina (Keele): Pushkin and Brodsky: the Art of
Self-deprecation
Stephanie Sandler (Amherst): Pushkin Among Contemporary Poets (Self
& Song in Sedakova)
1.00 Lunch
2.00 PARALLEL SESSION
Panel VI: Pushkin and Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Justin Doherty (Trinity College, Dublin): Pechal' moia svetla': The
Pushkin Contexts of Georgy Ivanov's Raspad atoma'
Savely Senderovich and Yelena Shvarts (Cornell): From Pushkin to
Nabokov:The Vicissitudes of One Exegetic Tradition
Jekaterina Young (Manchester): Dovlatov's Sanctuary' and Pushkin
Panel VII: Verse Problematics
J. Douglas Clayton (Ottawa): Word Order in Russian Poetry: Evgenii
Onegin' between Poetry and Prose
Angela Livingstone (Essex): The Grammar of Poetry': Semantics of
Case in Poems by Pushkin
Eric de Haard (Amsterdam): Verse Insertions in Pushkin's Prose
3.45 Tea
4.00 Panel VIII: Pushkin in Music
Gabriella Hima (Debrecen, Hungary): Pushkin as Sub-text for Russian
Opera Libretti
Arnold Mcmillin (SSEES): Gilding the Lily: Pushkin's Lyrics in the
Hands of Russian Composers
5.15 Olga Sedakova (Moscow): Pushkin's Christian Roots
6.30 Reception
7.00 Anniversary Dinner
Wednesday 15 September
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 PARALLEL SESSION
Panel IX: Pushkin in St Petersburg
Robin Aizlewood (SSEES): The Stone Guest' and the Alter Ego':
Doubling and Redoubling Germann in The Queen of Spades'
Mike Kirkwood (Glasgow): Pushkin as Neo-Formalist: Domik v Kolomne'
Alexandra Smith (University of Canterbury, New Zealand): Revisiting
Pushkin's Poetic Image of Imperial Petersburg
Tatiana Smoliarova (Moscow): The Bronze Horseman' and the Tradition
of Ekphrasis
9.00 Panel X: Interconnections ...
Leon Burnett (Essex): Sovereign Rapture: The Enigma of Pushkin's
Cleopatra
Maria Langleben (Jerusalem): A Journey to Arzrum': The Innovative
Structure and its Purpose
Marguerite Palmer (Keele): Pushkin's Beatrice: the Process of
Beatification in Eugene Onegin'
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Panel XI: 200 Years Have Passed': Pushkin, History and Time
Samantha Johnson (Keele): Pushkin at Keele: Grand Duke Michael and
Countess Torby at Keele, 1901-1910
Robert Reid (Keele): A Hundred Years Have Passed...': A Diltheyan
Approach to Time in Pushkin
William Mills Todd III (Harvard): Pushkin's Istoriia Pugacheva' and
the Experience of History
1.00 Lunch & Close
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PUSHKIN
A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE
to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 13-15 September, 1999
under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle
Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK
BOOKING FORM
The conference will run from lunch on Monday, 13 September until lunch on
Wednesday, 15 September. Please tick whatever facilities you wish and fill
in the sections of name, date, etc., then return the form as soon as
possible to the address below, with payment made out to Essays in Poetics',
and in any event by 6 August 1999. It would be of great assistance to us if
the full amount could be paid in advance: all prices are in pounds sterling.
If you have received this electronically, it may be returned in the same
way, or please print a copy and send back by post: cheques will obviously
have to be sent by post in any event.
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13 September Lunch (7.75) . . . . . . .
Tea (0.75) . . . . . . .
Dinner (12.50) . . . . . .
Bedroom : ensuite (38.50) . . . . . .
ordinary (27.50) . . . . . .
twin (per person) (25.50) . . . . . .
14 September Breakfast (5.75) . . . . . . .
Coffee (0.75) . . . . . . .
Lunch (7.75) . . . . . . .
Tea (0.75) . . . . . . .
Anniversary Dinner
(includes reception & wine) (25.00) . . . . . .
Bedroom : ensuite (38.50) . . . . . .
ordinary (27.50) . . . . . .
twin (per person) (25.50) . . . . . .
15 September Breakfast (5.75) . . . . . . .
Coffee (0.75) . . . . . . .
Lunch (7.75) . . . . . . .
Vegetarian Meals Required . . . . . . . . . .
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Conference Fee (40.00) . . . . . .
(Please tick meals etc. required and please specify if vegetarian or other
special requirements)
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Please return the completed form with payment to:
Neo-Formalist Circle
Department of Russian Studies
Keele University, Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG, England
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