Keynote speakers
Dr Alison Gibbons: Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, author of
Mark Z. Danielewski, Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental
Literature (2014) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to
Experimental Literature (2014).
Dr Grzegorz Maziarczyk: Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, author of The Narratee in Contemporary British Fiction (2005) and The Novel as Book: Textual Materiality in Contemporary Fiction in English (2013).
Dr Merritt Moseley: Professor of English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, editor of four volumes on British and Irish Novelists Since 1960, one on Booker Prize-Winners and one on the academic novel, and the author of monographs on David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, Julian Barnes, Michael Frayn, Pat Barker and Jonathan Coe.
Contributors
Mariano D’Ambrosio
(University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Fragmentary Writing and Polyphonic Narrative
Anne-Catherine Bascoul (University of Nice Sophia
Antipolis)
Tweets: Hundred and Forty Word Fragments to (De)construct
in Richard Powers’s Orfeo
Gerd Bayer (University of Erlangen)
Fragmentary Transtextuality: David Mitchell and His Novel
Katarzyna Bazarnik (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Fragmentation and the Longing for Wholeness
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)
Teresa Bruś (University of Wrocław)
Lives, etc: Fragments of Lives in Short Stories by Julian
Barnes
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (University of Łódź)
Chinese Boxes or Russian Dolls?
Embedded Feminine Narratives in the Fiction of A.S. Byatt, Michèle Roberts and
Jeanette Winterson
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
Dominika Ferens (University of Wrocław)
Affective Disorder: The Fragmentary Writings of Sigrid
Nunez and Jamaica Kincaid
Alessandro Guaita (Universities of Lisbon, Guelph and
Perpignan)
Broken Realism: The Implicit and Explicit in Modern
American Short Stories
Jarosław Hetman (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń)
David Foster Wallace’s Fragmented Fiction Versus Don
DeLillo’s Mediated Reality
Tristan Ireson-Howells (Canterbury Christ Church
University)
Myths Torn Apart: Robert Coover’s Fragmentary Writing
Saloua Karoui-Elounelli (University of Tunis)
Poetics and Ethics of Fragmentariness in Gilbert
Sorrentino’s Blue Pastoral
Zofia Kolbuszewska (University of Wrocław)
Hexen 2.0 by Suzanne Treister: The Autopoietic Wunderkammer of
Alternative History
Bartosz Lutostański (Independent Scholar)
A Poetics of Fragment in British Prose Fiction
Caroline Magnin (University Paris 3 – Sorbonne)
“My Life Story Was Spaces”: Trauma and the Mechanics of
Fragmentation in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran
Foer
David Malcolm (University of Gdańsk)
Augment the Scantling?: A Codicological Approach to the
Short-Fictional Fragment
Côme Martin (Paris
Est – Créteil University/Sorbonne)
Unbox the Story: The Resurgence of Shuffle Narratives in
Contemporary Fiction
Iain McMaster (University of Edinburgh)
“You’re Going to Go to Pieces”: Fragments and Freedom in
Harry Mathews’ The Journalist
Roderick Mengham (University of Cambridge)
Fragment Factory
Trung Nguyên-Quang (University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
On Fragmented Experiences in Zadie Smith’s NW and Swing
Time
Paulina Pająk
Insights from the Fragmentary Diaries: Virginia
Woolf’s “The Legacy” and Susan Sontag’s “The Way We Live Now”
Alicia J. Rouverol (University of Manchester)
Fragmentary Writing and Globalisation in the Writings of
Ali Smith
Corina Selejan (Lucian
Blaga University, Sibiu)
Fragmentation(s) and Realism(s): Has the Fragment Gone
Mainstream?
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
Magdalena Sawa (John Paul II University, Lublin)
“You and I” – the Fragmentation of the Writing Self and the
Tradition of Modernism in T. S. Eliot’s and Gabriel Josipovici'’ Aesthetic
Theory and Artistic Practice
Maria Antonietta Struzziero (Independent Scholar)
“Make it New” to Return as Rupture and Difference: A Study
of Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time
Angelika Szopa (University of Wrocław)
Life In Fragments: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook as an Experiment in Fictional Form
Marcin Tereszewski (University of Wrocław)
The Architectural Fragment: Ruins and Totality in J. G.
Ballard’s Fiction
Ioannis Tsitsovits (University of Leuven)
The Afterlife of Theory in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
Hilary White (University of Manchester)
“to unshape him bit by bit”: The Fragmentary Page and
Collapse of Structure in Ann Quin’s Passages and Christine Brooke-Rose’s Thru
Paweł Wojtas (University of Warsaw)
Dead Uncertainties:
Formal Fragmentation and Unreliable Narration in Coetzee
Lech Zdunkiewicz (University of Wrocław)
The Multiple Camera Setup: Shifting Perspectives in Robert
Coover’s “The Babysitter”