Fragmentary Writing in Contemporary British and American Fiction
22 September 2017
9.00-9.30
Registration (Oratorium Marianum)
9.30-9.45
Conference opening (Oratorium Marianum)
9.45-10.45
Plenary talk (Oratorium Marianum)
by Merritt Moseley (University of North Carolina at Asheville)What is Fragmentary Fiction? And How is it Fragmentary?
Chaired by Vanessa Guignery
10.45-11.15
Coffee break
11.15-12.45
Parallel session 1: Fragment and Realism (room 207)
Chaired by Merritt Moseley
Wojciech Drąg (University of Wrocław)
Collage Manifestos: Appropriation,
Fragmentation and the Future of Literature in the Works of
David Markson, Jonathan Lethem and David Shields
Jarosław Hetman (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń)
David Foster Wallace’s Fragmented Fiction versus Don DeLillo’s Mediated Reality
Corina Selejan (Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu)
Fragmentation(s) and Realism(s): Has the Fragment Gone Mainstream?
(read by Merritt Moseley)
Parallel session 2: Fragment and Identity (room 215)
Chaired by Teresa Bruś
Dominika Ferens (University of Wrocław)
Affective Disorder: The Fragmentary Writings of Sigrid Nunez and Jamaica Kincaid
Paulina Pająk (University of Wrocław)
Insights from the Fragmentary Diaries: Virginia Woolf’s “The Legacy” and Susan Sontag’s “The Way We Live Now”
Caroline Magnin (University Paris – Sorbonne)
“My Life Story Was Spaces”: Trauma and the
Mechanics of Fragmentation in Extremely
Loud and
Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
12.45-13.45
Lunch (Bazylia)
13.45-14.45
Plenary talk (room 208)
Alison Gibbons (Sheffield Hallam University)Multimodality and Aesth-Ethics, or, Fragments and Spirals: The Entropology of Theories of Forgetting
Chaired by Wojciech Drąg
15.00-16.30
Parallel session 3: The Contemporary British Novel 1 (room 208)
Chaired by Vanessa Guignery
Alicia J. Rouverol (University of Manchester)
Fragmentary Writing and Globalisation in the Writings of Ali Smith
Maria Antonietta Struzziero (Independent Scholar)
“Make it New” to Return as Rupture and Difference: A Study of Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time
Trung Nguyên-Quang (University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
On Fragmented Experiences in Zadie Smith’s NW and Swing Time
Parallel session 4: The Nineteen Sixties and Seventies (room 207)
Chaired by Wojciech Drąg
Lech Zdunkiewicz (University of Wrocław)
The Multiple Camera Setup: Shifting Perspectives in Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter”
Tristan Ireson-Howells (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Myths Torn Apart: Robert Coover’s Fragmentary Writing
Marcin Tereszewski (University of Wrocław)
The Architectural Fragment: Ruins and Totality in J. G. Ballard’s Fiction
16.30-17.00
Coffee break
17.00-18.30
Session 5: The Novel
Chaired by Vanessa Guignery
Gerd Bayer (University of Erlangen)
Fragmentary Transtextuality: David Mitchell and His Novel
Paweł
Wojtas (University of Warsaw)
Dead Uncertainties: Formal Fragmentation and Unreliable Narration in Coetzee
Hilary White (University of Manchester)
"Fantastic dance of images, shapes, forms": Visuality and Fragmentation in Ann Quin’s Passages
19.30-21.30
Conference dinner (Klub Uniwersytecki)
23 September 2017
9.30-10.30
Plenary talk (room 208)
Grzegorz Maziarczyk (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Singularity, Multimodality, Transmediality: Fragmentary Future(s) of the Novel?Chaired by Zofia Kolbuszewska
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-13.00
Parallel session 6: The Contemporary British Novel 2 (room 208)
Chaired by Gerd Bayer
Magdalena Sawa (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
“You and I” – the Fragmentation of the Writing Self and the Tradition of Modernism in T. S. Eliot’s and Gabriel Josipovici’s Aesthetic Theory and Artistic Practice
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (University of Łódź)
Dismembering
the Narrative in Michèle Roberts’ Impossible
Saints
Bartosz Lutostański (Independent Scholar)
A Poetics of Fragment in British Prose Fiction
Vesna Ukić-Košta (University of Zadar)
“What Will I do While I’m Lasting, Marianne?”: Fragmentary Writing in Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Parallel session 7: Contemporary American Fiction (room 207)
Chaired by Grzegorz Maziarczyk
Saloua Karoui-Elounelli (University of Tunis)
Poetics and Ethics of Fragmentariness in Gilbert Sorrentino’s Blue Pastoral
Iain McMaster (University of Edinburgh)
“You’re Going to Go to Pieces”: Fragments and Freedom in Harry Mathews’ The Journalist
Deborah Bridle (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Fragmentation as Building Practice: The Collaboration Between Writer Thomas Ligotti and Music Band Current 93 for In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land (1997)
Anne-Catherine Bascoul (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Tweets: Hundred and Forty Word Fragments to (De)construct in Richard Powers’s Orfeo
13.00-14.00
Lunch (Bazylia)
14.00-15.30
Parallel session 8: The Short Story (room 208)
Chaired by Dominika Ferens
Teresa Bruś (University of Wrocław)
Lives, etc: Fragments of Lives in Short Stories by Julian Barnes
David Malcolm (University of Gdańsk)
Augment the Scantling?: A Codicological Approach to the Short-Fictional Fragment
Alessandro Guaita (Universities of Lisbon, Guelph and Perpignan)
Broken Realism: The Implicit and Explicit in Modern American Short Stories
Parallel session 9: Multimodality (room 207)
Chaired by Alison Gibbons
Katarzyna Bazarnik (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Fragmentation and the Longing for Wholeness
Mariano D’Ambrosio (University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Fragmentary Writing and Polyphonic Narrative
Côme Martin (Paris Est – Créteil University/Sorbonne)
Unbox the Story: The Resurgence of Shuffle Narratives in Contemporary Fiction
15.30-16.00
Coffee break
16.00-17.00
Session 10: Fiction/Non-Fiction (room 208)
Chaired by Marcin Tereszewski
Zofia Kolbuszewska (University of Wrocław)
Hexen 2.0 by Suzanne Treister: The Autopoietic Wunderkammer of Alternative History
Ioannis Tsitsovits (University of Leuven)
The Afterlife of Theory in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
17.00-17.15
Closing of the conference