Short Fiction Writers With a Theory: Re-Reading Short Fiction Theory Through the Lens of New Writing and New Media
11-12 June 2015, Université Catholique de Lille, France
Room RS 248 — 58 rue du Port — 59000 Lille
PROGRAMME
Thursday 11 June
13:30-14:00: Registration
14:00-14:15: Welcome Address – Vincent Roger, Vice Dean (Institut Catholique de Lille)
14:15-14:30: A Few Words on ENSFR – Ailsa Cox (Edge Hill University), Elke D’hoker (KU Leuven Faculty of Arts), Michelle Ryan-Sautour (Université d’Angers)
14:30-15:30: Keynote Lecture – Françoise Clary (Université de Rouen): “Migrating Worlds: Extending the Short Story’s Limits in a Busy World”
Chair: Ineke Bockting (Institut Catholique de Paris)
15:30-15:45: Coffee Break
15:45-17:15: Workshop 1 – The Practice of Theory
Chair: Ailsa Cox (Edge Hill University)
15:45-16:15: Suzanne Bray (Institut Catholique de Lille): “Aristotle as a Guide to Writing Detective Stories: The Poetics in Melville Davisson Post and Dorothy L. Sayers’s Literary Theory”
16:15-16:45: John D Rutter (Edge Hill University): “Searching for the Essence of the Short Story”
16:45-17.15: Lucy Durneen and Adnan Mahmutović (Plymouth University, Stockholm University): “Towards a Poetics of Editing – Rewriting Short Fiction in the 21st Century”
17:45-18:15: Panel Discussion 1 – Perspectives on the Short Story: The Writers Talk
Chair: Elke D’hoker (KU Leuven Faculty of Arts)
17:15-17:45: Alice Clark, Université de Nantes, writer: “Metonymy, Metaphor and Displacement” Reading: “The Intruder”
17:45-18:15: Readings
Ailsa Cox, Alison MacLeod
19:30: Banquet
Friday 12 June
9:30-10:30 – Round Table 1 – Promoting Short Story Writing
Chair: Emmanuel Vernadakis (Université d’Angers)
Michelle Ryan-Sautour, Université d’Angers, Editor, Journal of the Short Story in English
Alison MacLeod, The University of Chichester, Thresholds
Jim Hinks, Digital Editor, Comma Press
Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill University, Writer, Editor. Short Fiction in Theory and Practice
10:30-10:45: Coffee Break
10:45-12-45: Workshop 2 – Writers on/and Writing
Chair: Michelle Ryan-Sautour (Université d’Angers)
10:45-11:15: Tanya Tromble (Aix Marseille Université): “Joyce Carol Oates and the Short Story: Violence as Tool”
11:15-11:45: Simon Stevenson (Doncaster University Centre): “Can Xue: A Particular Sort of Story”
11:45-12:15: Frédérique Spill (Université de Picardie Jules Verne): “Something Rich and Strange (2014): Ron Rash’s art as a short fiction writer”
12:15-12:45: Gérald Préher (Institut Catholique de Lille): “‘It’s like a Vogue model’: Shirley Ann Grau’s Theories and Practices”
13:00-14:30: Lunch
14:30-16:00: Panel Discussion 2 – Senses and Sensibilities in Short Story Writing
Co-Chairs: Alice Clark, Writer, and Rémi Digonnet (Institut Catholique de Lille)
Simonetta Greggio, writer.
16:00-17:30: Workshop 3 – The Short Story as a Genre
Chair: Gérald Préher (Institut Catholique de Lille)
16:00-16:30: Elisabeth Lamothe (Université du Mans): “Vietnamese-American Short Stories: Politics and Frameworks”
16:30-17:00: Michelle Ryan-Sautour (Université d’Angers), “Reading the Short Story in the Digital Age”
17:00-17:30: Emmanuel Vernadakis (Université d’Angers): “Some Thoughts on the Short Story and Theatre: A Question of Space”