WARSAW LITERARY MEETINGS

WARSAW LITERARY MEETINGS

8th


TOPIC: INTERCONNECTIONS — LITERATURE/THEATRE/DRAMA/PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC
IN THE LONG 18th AND 19th CENTURIES

DATE: 25 May 2018
COORDINATOR: dr hab. Magdalena Pypeć, University of Warsaw
DEADLINES: 
  • proposals (about 200 words) - 15 April 2018
  • complete papers - 10 May 2018

CfP SUGGESTED TOPICS & THEMES:

  • stage adaptations of literary texts
  • the role of references and allusions to plays and performances in literary texts 
  • the role of actors and theatrical troupes in literary texts 
  • the language of gestures and play acting  
  • the influence of melodrama and pantomime
  • dramatic genres in the18th and 19th century Britain and their cultural and literary influence
  • women and play-writing 
  • representations of musicians in fiction 
  • opera and its literary and cultural impact
  • musical themes and subtexts in literature

PROGRAMME

10.00–11.00 Plenary lecture
Chair: Grażyna Bystydzieńska

Paddy Lyons
Brechtian Dimensions in Eighteenth Century Theatre

11.30–12.30 Session 1
Chair: Magdalena Pypeć

Anna Paluchowska-Messing
A Play to be Read? Joanna Baillie’s and Hannah Cowley’s Engagement with Their Readers

Magdalena Ożarska
The 1830 Polish Cause as a Springboard for Claire Clairmont’s Creative Reworking of Goethe’s and de Staël’s Iconic Female Performers

13.00–14.00 Session 2
Chair: Magdalena Ożarska

Jacek Mydla
Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother – a Gothic Oedipus?

Przemysław Uściński
Spectacle of Pity: Hypocrisy and the Performance of Sentiment in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling

15.30–17.00 Session 3
Chair: Przemysław Uściński

Marek Błaszak
Elements of Theatrical Performance and Sailors as Performers in Capt. Marryat’s Sea Novels

Barbara Ludwiczak
Trollope as a Playwright – Comparing Did He Steal It? and The Last Chronicle of Barset

Magdalena Pypeć
The Theatrical Trope as a Narrative Device in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood   


Venue:
The Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
69 Hoża Street

Plenary lecture: room 113 (ground floor, library)
 Sessions: room 345 (2nd floor)
 Tea: room 326 (2nd floor)