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Organised by the research centres ERCLA and Texte et Critique du Texte, with the support of the Scientific Committee and Doctoral School IV of Paris IV-Sorbonne.

The purpose of this conference was to contemplate how poetry, dramatic works and contemporary novels account for individual and collective memory's functions and dysfunctions, thus bringing to the fore the mechanics through which individual consciousness and historiography undertake to collect or "re-collect" referents which had previously been split up by time. The preservation of the past can actually take place not only through means of concrete evidences in written documents (resounding, rhythmical, graphical recollections) but also through mental ones, which the fund of memory is made of.
We saw how texts could reveal that the process of recollection goes along with selections, alterations, simplifications, distortions, in other words, dysmnesic phenomena - either deliberate or unintentional. Concepts such as anamnesis, reminiscence and manipulation, anachronism, digression, blurring, mask, fear of oblivion, amnesia and hypermnesia, self-censorship, obliteration, erasing, nostalgia and gathering were also taken into consideration. We envisaged memory as the conveyor of an apocryphal reality thus underlining how it is linked to the workings of the imagination and therefore to the writer's work. We also took an interest in what the text retains: phenomena of rewriting, pastiche and parody. Furthermore, we questioned the duty to remember and the ethics of memory as well as the connection between recollection and commemoration, between memory and truth.

Organising committee:
Elisabeth Angel-Perez, rançois Gallix, Vanessa Guignery, Catherine Pesso-Miquel, Michèle Théry.

Upon the approval of the papers by the review's reading committee, those submitted within the SEAC framework shall be published in Etudes britanniques contemporaines..

Friday 22 October 2004 Salle des Actes

9h00-12h00

Chair : Bernard Gilbert (Bordeaux)

9h00 Welcome

9h30 Hélène Fau (Saarbrücken, Allemagne) : « Jeanette Winterson’s Poetic Writing : erasing memory through repetition. »

10h Claire Bowen (Le Havre) : « Sherston and Sassoon in France: accounts of events of the Great War. »

10h30 Pause

11h00 Jan Borm (Versailles – Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) : « Le sens de la mémoire dans deux romans de Jonathan Raban. »

11h30 Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay (Paris XII) : « Gene Wolfe’s ‘The Fifth Head of Cerberus’ (1972), or an uncanny science fiction revision of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu : ‘remembrance of things past,’ re-membering oneself. »

12h15 Lunch at the Club des enseignants

14h30-19h00

Chair : François Gallix (Paris IV)

14h30 Eileen Williams-Wanquet (La Réunion) : « Memory in the Novels of Penelope Lively.»

15h Dominique Vinet (Bordeaux) : « Deconstructing the Memory of Guilt in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans. »

15h30 Pause

16h Alain Blayac (Montpellier): « Ars memoriae, memoria artis, souvenir et mémoire dans Brideshead Revisited d’Evelyn Waugh. »

16h30 Anne-Laure Brevet (Brest) : « Refracting memory through Digression and Allusion in Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor. »

17h30: Conférence-débat avec JANE ROGERS, à propos de New Writing

18h30 : Cocktail at the Club des enseignants

20h30: Dinner at the restaurant Le Port du Salut, 163 bis rue Saint Jacques, 75005 Paris. Price: 26 euros. Inscription through Michèle THERY (michele.thery@paris4.sorbonne.fr)

Saturday 23 October 2004 Guizot lecture room

9h30-12h00

Chair : Catherine Pesso-Miquel (Paris IV)

9h30 Pascal Zinck (Cergy-Pontoise): « The Palimpsest of Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans. »

10h Jennifer Kilgore (Caen) : « Declining Memory in The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill. »

10h30 Pause

Chair : Élisabeth Angel-Perez (Paris IV)

11h Tomasz Wisniewski (Sopot, Pologne) : « Revolving the past. What Where in the context of Samuel Beckett's drama. »

11h30 Liza Kharoubi (Paris IV) : « ‘Looking back through smoke’: the faces of memory in Harold Pinter’s Old Times. »

12h15 Déjeuner libre

14h30-16h15

Chair : Christine Reynier (Montpellier)

14h30 Camille Fort (Strasbourg) : « ‘Entranced by the presence of absence’ : la remémoration dans ‘The Conjugal Angel’ d'A. S. Byatt. »

15h Linda Pillière (Université du Littoral) : « The Vagaries of Memory : the linguistic representation of deception in the novel. »

15h30 Pause

16h Sophie Cartier (Paris VII) : « L’écriture de l’histoire dans l’œuvre de Peter Ackroyd : la représentation de Londres comme lieu de mémoire. »

16h30 Paul Veyret (IUFM de Paris) : « The Strange Case of the Missing Chinaman: mixing memory and desire in Kazuo Ishiguro’s the Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans. »

17h15 End of the conference

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Organised by the research centres ERCLA and Texte et Critique du Texte, with the support of the Scientific Committee and Doctoral School IV of Paris IV-Sorbonne. The purpose of this conference was to contemplate how poetry, dramatic works and contemporary novels account for individual and collective memory's functions and dysfunctions, thus bringing to the fore the mechanics through which individual consciousness and historiography undertake to collect or "re-collect" referents which had previously been split up by time. The preservation of the past can actually take place not only through means of concrete evidences in written documents (resounding, rhythmical, graphical recollections) but also through mental ones, which the fund of memory is made of. We saw how texts could reveal that the process of recollection goes along with selections, alterations, simplifications, distortions, in other words, dysmnesic phenomena - either deliberate or unintentional. Concepts such as anamnesis, reminiscence and manipulation, anachronism, digression, blurring, mask, fear of oblivion, amnesia and hypermnesia, self-censorship, obliteration, erasing, nostalgia and gathering were also taken into consideration. We envisaged memory as the conveyor of an apocryphal reality thus underlining how it is linked to the workings of the imagination and therefore to the writer's work. We also took an interest in what the text retains: phenomena of rewriting, pastiche and parody. Furthermore, we questioned the duty to remember and the ethics of memory as well as the connection between recollection and commemoration, between memory and truth. Organising committee: Elisabeth Angel-Perez, rançois Gallix, Vanessa Guignery, Catherine Pesso-Miquel, Michèle Théry. Upon the approval of the papers by the review's reading committee, those submitted within the SEAC framework shall be published in Etudes britanniques contemporaines.. * Friday 22 October 2004 Salle des Actes 9h00-12h00 *Chair* : Bernard Gilbert (Bordeaux) 9h00 Welcome 9h30 Hélène Fau (Saarbrücken, Allemagne) : « Jeanette Winterson’s Poetic Writing : erasing memory through repetition. » 10h Claire Bowen (Le Havre) : « Sherston and Sassoon in France: accounts of events of the Great War. » 10h30 Pause 11h00 Jan Borm (Versailles – Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) : « Le sens de la mémoire dans deux romans de Jonathan Raban. » 11h30 Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay (Paris XII) : « Gene Wolfe’s ‘The Fifth Head of Cerberus’ (1972), or an uncanny science fiction revision of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu : ‘remembrance of things past,’ re-membering oneself. » 12h15 Lunch at the Club des enseignants 14h30-19h00 *Chair* : François Gallix (Paris IV) 14h30 Eileen Williams-Wanquet (La Réunion) : « Memory in the Novels of Penelope Lively.» 15h Dominique Vinet (Bordeaux) : « Deconstructing the Memory of Guilt in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans. » 15h30 Pause 16h Alain Blayac (Montpellier): « Ars memoriae, memoria artis, souvenir et mémoire dans Brideshead Revisited d’Evelyn Waugh. » 16h30 Anne-Laure Brevet (Brest) : « Refracting memory through Digression and Allusion in Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor. » 17h30: Conférence-débat avec JANE ROGERS, à propos de New Writing 18h30 : Cocktail at the Club des enseignants 20h30: Dinner at the restaurant Le Port du Salut, 163 bis rue Saint Jacques, 75005 Paris. Price: 26 euros. Inscription through Michèle THERY (michele.thery@paris4.sorbonne.fr) Saturday 23 October 2004 Guizot lecture room 9h30-12h00 *Chair* : Catherine Pesso-Miquel (Paris IV) 9h30 Pascal Zinck (Cergy-Pontoise): « The Palimpsest of Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans. » 10h Jennifer Kilgore (Caen) : « Declining Memory in The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill. » 10h30 Pause *Chair* : Élisabeth Angel-Perez (Paris IV) 11h Tomasz Wisniewski (Sopot, Pologne) : « Revolving the past. What Where in the context of Samuel Beckett's drama. » 11h30 Liza Kharoubi (Paris IV) : « ‘Looking back through smoke’: the faces of memory in Harold Pinter’s Old Times. » 12h15 Déjeuner libre 14h30-16h15 *Chair* : Christine Reynier (Montpellier) 14h30 Camille Fort (Strasbourg) : « ‘Entranced by the presence of absence’ : la remémoration dans ‘The Conjugal Angel’ d'A. S. Byatt. » 15h Linda Pillière (Université du Littoral) : « The Vagaries of Memory : the linguistic representation of deception in the novel. » 15h30 Pause 16h Sophie Cartier (Paris VII) : « L’écriture de l’histoire dans l’œuvre de Peter Ackroyd : la représentation de Londres comme lieu de mémoire. » 16h30 Paul Veyret (IUFM de Paris) : « The Strange Case of the Missing Chinaman: mixing memory and desire in Kazuo Ishiguro’s the Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans. » 17h15 End of the conference *

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Conference of the Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines

"Memory"

Friday 22 October 2004 Salle des Actes

Saturday 23 October 2004 Guizot lecture room

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