Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

Friday 15 December 2006 - 9am to 6.30pm

Paris IV Sorbonne - Salle des Actes

 

This conference was organised by ERCLA research centre with the support of Doctoral School IV of Paris IV-Sorbonne.

The papers presented at this conference were published by Editions Atlande in 2007.

Plus sur Greene. The Power and the Glory: The Sorbonne Conference. Eds. François Gallix et Vanessa Guignery. Paris: Editions Atlande / Clefs Concours - anglais - littérature, 2007. 93p. ISBN 978-2-35030-039-9

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Our guest speaker was Professor Bernard Bergonzi of the University of Warwick.

9.00 Introduction : François Gallix, Vanessa Guignery, Paris IV-Sorbonne.
François Gallix. Graham Greene on the screen, with film extracts.

9.45 Guest speaker : Professor Bernard Bergonzi, university of Warwick. The Power and the Glory - the dramatic heritage.

10.30 Christian Gutleben, university of Strasbourg II. Of the good usage of rhetorical figures : the complementarity of hypallages and similes in The Power and the Glory.

11.15 Armand Goulipian, university of Clermont-Ferrand. Graham Greene-from The Power and the Glory to Monsignor Quixote : a Catholic agnostic.

12.00-1.30: Lunch break

1.30 Delphine Cingal, Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). Escape, Quest and Inquest : Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory as a suspense novel.

2.15 Michel Naumann, university François Rabelais, Tours. The Power and the Glory in the light of progressive theological trends.

3.00 Sophie Aymes, university of Burgundy, Dijon. From 'sedate' to 'rotten' : the role of books on the genesis of The Power and the Glory.

3.45 Coffee break

4.15 Catherine Miquel, university of Lyon II. "The dark and magical heart of the faith": the paradoxical poetry of Greene's imagery in The Power and the Glory

5.00 Round table, with Bernard Bergonzi
6.00 Question Time.

 

 

Salle des Actes, entrance: 54 rue Saint Jacques, 75005 Paris (on the right, in the direction of the Centre Administratif de Paris IV)