"Restored from Death" in Literature and Literary Theory
9th International Connotations Symposium
You can find the articles that followed up this symposium in its special issue behind the link.
July 29 - August 2, 2007
Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen
Schloss Hohentuebingen
Fuerstenzimmer
Programme
Sunday, 29 July
19:30 Welcome dinner; conference warming
Monday, 30 July
Chair: Matthias Bauer
8:30 Fritz Kemmler: Painful Restoration: Transformations of Life and Death in Medieval Visions of the Other World
9:30 Raymond Frontain: Terence McNally and the Dance of Death
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Angelika Zirker
11:00 Maurice Charney: Restored from Death in Pericles and The Winter’s Tale
12:00 Uwe Klawitter: Patricia Beer’s ‘Ninny’s Tomb’: The (Re-)Animation of Shakespearean Characters in Contemporary English Poetry
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00 Welcome Speech by the Rector of Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler
14:30 Arthur F. Kinney: Resurrecting Phyllyp Sparowe
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Julian Lethbridge
16:00 William Harmon: Alcestis, The Cocktail Party, and The Green Mile: Parallel Resurrections
17:00 Åke Bergvall: Duessan Descent: Resurrection and Blasphemy in Canto 5 of Edmund Spenser’s The Legend of Holiness.
18:00 Maik Goth: Spenser as, or against Prometheus: Reanimation and the Idea of Poetic Creation in the Early Modern Period
19:30 Dinner
Tuesday, 31 July
Chair: Burkhard Niederhoff
8:30 Yaakov A. Mascetti: “This great office”: Death, Alchemy and Verbal Revivification in John Donne’s Anatomy of the World
9:30 Margret Fetzer: “And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die”—Resurrecting Christ in John Donne
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Matthias Bauer
11:00 Inge Leimberg: Echo Restored From Death
12:00 Alan Rudrum: Bringing Peace Back to Life
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Chair: Dirk Wiemann
14:00 Leona Toker: Decadence and Renewal in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
15:00 Janice Rossen: Memento Mori, Redemption and Epiphany in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
Chair : Astrid Franke
16:30 Don McDermott: The Initiation into Death and Rebirth in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
17:30 Angelika Zirker: ‘Restored from Death’: Redemptive Children and Nature in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Writings
18:30 Norbert Lennartz: The Intrusions of Old Times: Ghosts, Revenants and Other Creatures Restored from the Dead in Late 19 th- and Early 20 th-Century British Literature
20:00 Dinner
Wednesday, 01 August
Chair: Ingrid Hotz-Davies
8:30 Elena Anastasaki: How to Relate the Trials and Tribulations of the Revenants: A Study of the Narrative Techniques in Some Works of Mary Shelley and Théophile Gautier
9:30 June Sturrock: How Browning and Byatt Bring back the Dead
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Lars Eckstein
11:00 Burkhard Niederhoff: How to Do Things with Ghosts: The Return of the Dead in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood (with an Emphasis on Alias Grace)
12:00 Hannes Bergthaller: Dis(re)membering History’s Revenants: Writing as Mortification of the Past in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
13:00 Miriam Raethel: Life, Death, and Abiku in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl
14:00-15:00 Lunch
15:30 Excursion to Hohenzollern Castle; Dinner
Thursday, 02 August
Chair: Lothar Fietz
8:30 Neil Browne: Death, Abundance, and Lucky Ecology in Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
9:30 James Corby: ‘Death-in-life and life-in-death’: Yeats’s Romanticism
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Jan Stievermann
11:00 Frank Kearful: Life Restored in Robert Lowell’s Lord Weary’s Castle
12:00 John Whalen-Bridge: “For/From Lew”: Ghost Visitations of Lew Welch
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Chair: Isabell Klaiber
14:00 Lily N. Corwin: Strengthen the Things that Remain: Apocalyptic Elements in Mr. Sammler’s Planet
15:00 Jutta Ernst: Literary Autopsy: Paul Auster’s The Invention of Solitude
Bodelshausen Monastery