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From: Maurice Couturier <couturier@unice.fr>
ANNOUNCEMENTs FROM MAURICE COUTURIER
1) I am pleased to announce that the Pleiade Nabokov is getting started at
long last, with myself as general editor and Alexander Dolinin as
consultant for the Russian novels. Here are the members of the team: Reni
Alladaye, Christine Bouvart, Brian Boyd, Alexander Dolinin, Suzanne
Fraysse, Kernard Kreise, Laura Troubetzkoy, Vladimir Troubetzkoy.
2) Program of the Second Nice Conference on Nabokov at UNIVERSITE DE
NICE-SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS
"Nabokov, at the Crossroads of Modernism and Postmodernism"
June 22-23-24 1995
Organizer: Maurice Couturier
This conference, which will be held at the Hotel Beau Rivage (24 rue St.
Frangois de Paule, 06000-Nice, Tel. 93 80 80 70), has been financed by the
CRELA, the University of Nice, the American Cultural Services and the
British Council.
__________
THURSDAY JUNE 22
Registration at the Hotel Beau Rivage from 8 until 9.15
Opening address: 9.15
Morning session: 9.30 till 12.30; moderator:Herbert Grabes, University of
Giessen
Brian Boyd, University of Auckland: "Words, Works and Worlds in Joyce and
Nabokov: or Intertextuality, Intratextuality, Supratextuality,
Infratextuality and Extratextuality in Modernist and Pre-Postmodernist
Narrative Discourse."
Laurent Milisi, University of Wales, Swansea: "Dead on Time? Nabokov's
Modo-Post to the Letter."
Christine Raguet-Bouvart, University of Bordeaux: "Riverunning Acrostically
Through the 'Vane Sisters' and A.L.P."
Afternoon: 2.00, guided tour of Russian Nice
6.00: Cocktail offered by the President of the University
FRIDAY JUNE 23
Morning session: 9 till 12.30; moderator: Ellen Pifer, University of Delaware
Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania: "Incestuish Salacities
Among Gerontophils: Ada's Wake."
Maurice Couturier, University of Nice: "The Authorial Figure in Ulysses
and Lolita."
Alexander A. Dolinin, Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and
University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Caning of Modernist Profaners:
Parody in Despair."
Vladimir Troubetzkoy, University of Lille III: "Doubling
in Despair: A Postmodernist Treatment of a Traditional Theme."
Afternoon session: 2.30 till 6.30; moderator: Geoffrey Green, University of
San Francisco
Simon Karlinsky, University of California at Berkeley: "Nabokov and Certain
Poets of Russian Modernism."
Julian Connolly, University of Virginia: "Cincinnatus and Diffirance:
Subversive Discourse in Invitation to a Beheading."
Galya Diment, University of Washington: "From Kafka's Castle to Axel's
Castle: Nabokov vs. Wilson as Critics of Modernism."
Suzanne Fraysse, University of Paris VII: "Nabokov and Poe: the Philosophy
of Composition."
SATURDAY JUNE 24
Morning session: 9.00 till 12.30: moderator: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney,
College of Holy Cross
John Burt Foster, George Mason University: "Parody and the Postmodern Turn:
Nabokov/Jameson."
Herbert Grabes, University of Giessen: "Modernism into Postmodernism:
Nabokov's Exemplary Fictions."
Leona Toker, The Hebrew University: "The Fragmentation of Reality in
Nabokov's Fiction."
David Lodge, novelist: "What Kind of Fiction did Nabokov Write: A
Practitioner's View."
Afternoon session: 2.30 till 6.30; moderator: Brian Boyd, University of Auckland
Jane Grayson, University of London: "Nabokov and Perec: a Crossroads, not a
Meeting."
Geoffrey Green, University of San Francisco: "Beyond Modernism and
Postmodernism: Vladimir Nabokov's Fiction of Transcendent Perspective."
Ellen Pifer, University of Delaware: "Birds of a Different Feather: Nabokov
and Kosinski in the Postwar Period."
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, College of the Holy Cross: "The V-Shaped Paradigm:
Nabokov and Pynchon."
Pekka Tammi, University of Tampere: "Echoes: Pale Fire and Foucault's
Pendulum."
Evening: Gala dinner offered to the speakers by the University of Nice.
Thank you.
Best
Maurice
---------------------------------------------------------------
Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines
C.R.E.L.A.
Maurice Couturier
phone : (33) 93.37.53.46
email : couturier@unice.fr
ANNOUNCEMENTs FROM MAURICE COUTURIER
1) I am pleased to announce that the Pleiade Nabokov is getting started at
long last, with myself as general editor and Alexander Dolinin as
consultant for the Russian novels. Here are the members of the team: Reni
Alladaye, Christine Bouvart, Brian Boyd, Alexander Dolinin, Suzanne
Fraysse, Kernard Kreise, Laura Troubetzkoy, Vladimir Troubetzkoy.
2) Program of the Second Nice Conference on Nabokov at UNIVERSITE DE
NICE-SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS
"Nabokov, at the Crossroads of Modernism and Postmodernism"
June 22-23-24 1995
Organizer: Maurice Couturier
This conference, which will be held at the Hotel Beau Rivage (24 rue St.
Frangois de Paule, 06000-Nice, Tel. 93 80 80 70), has been financed by the
CRELA, the University of Nice, the American Cultural Services and the
British Council.
__________
THURSDAY JUNE 22
Registration at the Hotel Beau Rivage from 8 until 9.15
Opening address: 9.15
Morning session: 9.30 till 12.30; moderator:Herbert Grabes, University of
Giessen
Brian Boyd, University of Auckland: "Words, Works and Worlds in Joyce and
Nabokov: or Intertextuality, Intratextuality, Supratextuality,
Infratextuality and Extratextuality in Modernist and Pre-Postmodernist
Narrative Discourse."
Laurent Milisi, University of Wales, Swansea: "Dead on Time? Nabokov's
Modo-Post to the Letter."
Christine Raguet-Bouvart, University of Bordeaux: "Riverunning Acrostically
Through the 'Vane Sisters' and A.L.P."
Afternoon: 2.00, guided tour of Russian Nice
6.00: Cocktail offered by the President of the University
FRIDAY JUNE 23
Morning session: 9 till 12.30; moderator: Ellen Pifer, University of Delaware
Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania: "Incestuish Salacities
Among Gerontophils: Ada's Wake."
Maurice Couturier, University of Nice: "The Authorial Figure in Ulysses
and Lolita."
Alexander A. Dolinin, Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and
University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Caning of Modernist Profaners:
Parody in Despair."
Vladimir Troubetzkoy, University of Lille III: "Doubling
in Despair: A Postmodernist Treatment of a Traditional Theme."
Afternoon session: 2.30 till 6.30; moderator: Geoffrey Green, University of
San Francisco
Simon Karlinsky, University of California at Berkeley: "Nabokov and Certain
Poets of Russian Modernism."
Julian Connolly, University of Virginia: "Cincinnatus and Diffirance:
Subversive Discourse in Invitation to a Beheading."
Galya Diment, University of Washington: "From Kafka's Castle to Axel's
Castle: Nabokov vs. Wilson as Critics of Modernism."
Suzanne Fraysse, University of Paris VII: "Nabokov and Poe: the Philosophy
of Composition."
SATURDAY JUNE 24
Morning session: 9.00 till 12.30: moderator: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney,
College of Holy Cross
John Burt Foster, George Mason University: "Parody and the Postmodern Turn:
Nabokov/Jameson."
Herbert Grabes, University of Giessen: "Modernism into Postmodernism:
Nabokov's Exemplary Fictions."
Leona Toker, The Hebrew University: "The Fragmentation of Reality in
Nabokov's Fiction."
David Lodge, novelist: "What Kind of Fiction did Nabokov Write: A
Practitioner's View."
Afternoon session: 2.30 till 6.30; moderator: Brian Boyd, University of Auckland
Jane Grayson, University of London: "Nabokov and Perec: a Crossroads, not a
Meeting."
Geoffrey Green, University of San Francisco: "Beyond Modernism and
Postmodernism: Vladimir Nabokov's Fiction of Transcendent Perspective."
Ellen Pifer, University of Delaware: "Birds of a Different Feather: Nabokov
and Kosinski in the Postwar Period."
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, College of the Holy Cross: "The V-Shaped Paradigm:
Nabokov and Pynchon."
Pekka Tammi, University of Tampere: "Echoes: Pale Fire and Foucault's
Pendulum."
Evening: Gala dinner offered to the speakers by the University of Nice.
Thank you.
Best
Maurice
---------------------------------------------------------------
Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines
C.R.E.L.A.
Maurice Couturier
phone : (33) 93.37.53.46
email : couturier@unice.fr