Defending the Literary
Defending the Literary: From Cervantes to Coetzee
A One-Day Symposium in Honour of Professor Michael Bell
Saturday, 20th September 2008
The Studio, Capital Centre, Milburn House, University of Warwick
To honour Professor Michael Bell on the occasion of his retirement, the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies will hold a one-day conference with lectures on subjects reflecting his interests.
All those wishing to attend are invited to register with the Departmental Secretary (download Registration Form here).
Provisional Programme
9.30 Registration and Coffee
10.00 Professor Claude Rawson (English, Yale): “‘The Amorous Effect of “Brass"': Showing, Telling and Money in Emma”
10.55 Coffee
11.10 Professor Ritchie Robertson (German, Oxford): “Wilhelm Meister’s Extended Family: The German Bildungsroman and the European Novel”
12.05 Dr Peter Poellner (Philosophy, Warwick): “Post-Nietzschean Modernism: Musil's The Man without Qualities”
1.00 Buffet Lunch
2.00 Dr Fiona Becket (English, Leeds): “Lawrence and Green Cultural Critique”
2.45 Professor Ed Larrissy (English, Queen’s Belfast): “Reading Poetry”
3.30 Tea
3.45 Professor Michael Wood (Comparative Literature, Princeton): “Strange Deaths: Fictions of History in Some Modern Writers”
4.40 Professor Michael Bell: “Magical Realism Revisited: Between History and Poetry”
5.30 Drinks Reception
Presentation to Professor Michael Bell, introduced by Professor Bernard Bergonzi