ИСТИНА

• Охват: Международная
• Даты проведения: 2013
• Место проведения: University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Belgium
• Описание конференции:

  This three-day MDRN conference aims to canvass the breadth and depth of the issues of time and temporality in European modernist writing and classic avant-garde literature. It has often been argued that so-called “high” modernist and avant-garde writing were perhaps the first to investigate in detail the problems of time and temporality. As a result, reflection on both issues in (“new”) modernism and avant-garde studies abounds. To date, however, we lack a systematic understanding of the different forms and functions of time and temporality in the writing from the period. It is this lacuna the present conference aims to fill. The conference gathers general as well as innovative case-based considerations of modernist and avant-garde writing and practices that tackle one of the following questions: How was time represented? What genres, techniques and means were deployed to evoke time? In what ways was the literary representation of time influenced by (changes in) other media and art forms? Which temporalities (bodily and natural time, mechanical and machine time, private and public time, etc.) were evoked and how did they interrelate? How was the flow of time conceived (teleological, multilayered and -directional, cyclical, etc.) and what temporal regimes (for example, favoring the present, past or future; continuity and tradition or rupture and revolution) were at work in modernism, the avant-garde, and cognate phenomena like the so-called arrière-garde? What hitherto ignored temporal modes require further scrutiny? What were the ramifications of modernist and avant-garde conceptions of time for the practice of reading, the history of the book (classics, pockets, …), and more generally for the social and cultural legitimation of literature? What other (perhaps less well studied) discourses (physics, biology, engineering, philosophy, etc.) informed literary reflection on time and temporality and how were insights from these other discourses translated in literary practice? How was time experienced and what were its implications for our understanding of the modern body, identity and subjectivity? Were there noticeable variations in how time was dealt with in modernist and avant-garde writing in different parts of Europe (and beyond)? What, more generally, were the implications of the views of time for the understanding of space and place (in writing)? Does the conception of time change in the course of the period 1900-1950, and, if so, what are the (social, literary, philosophical, …) conditions of emergence and consequences of these changes? By analyzing in-depth how modernist and avant-garde writing reflected on time and change, the conference ultimately aims to explore the ramifications of these ideas for the literary historiography of the period.

• Добавил в систему: Дудаков-Кашуро Константин Валерьевич

Доклады:

• 2013 Backward Futurisms: Archaic Structures in Italian and Russian Futurist Temporalities (Устный)
• Автор: Дудаков-Кашуро К.В.