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:

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)

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