Apr 20 2012 00:32
Apr 21 2012 23:32
America/Chicago
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM : SUBLIME AND GROTESQUE
DATE: April 20-21, 2012 at the Pyle Center
The aim of the symposium is to analyze the intersection of two major categories of European esthetics: the sublime and the grotesque, considered not as two discrete phenomena, but as a unique and quite specific conjunction of apparently opposed artistic forms. This esthetic coincidentia oppositorum will be examined in a series of case studies ranging from the 16th to the 21st centuries; encompassing literature, art and philosophy; and stemming from three different national cultures: France, Germany and England.
The focus of the debate will be on what is at the core of literary studies: the history of literary esthetics. In its scope, the symposium will be interdisciplinary (literature and philosophy), as well as comparatist (French, German, English literatures).
Schedule :
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012
Opening Remarks (1:30-2:00):
Patrick Rumble, Chair of the Department of French and Italian
Session 1 (2:00-3:30)
MICHEL MAGNIEN
Du grotesque, et du sublime, dans Les Essais
MICHEL JEANNERET
Le grotesque au cœur du sublime : Versailles
Session 2 (4:00-5:30)
CHRISTIAN BIET
Le théâtre tragique sanglant du début du XVIIe siècle en France et en Angleterre : grotesque et/ou sublime ?
RICHARD GOODKIN
Le Sublime, le grotesque, et l’image visuelle: (re) voir le théâtre classique
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012
Session 3 (9:00-10:30)
ANNE VILA
Le sublime, le grotesque et le viscéral dans les théories esthétiques de Diderot
HANS ADLER
Le sublime et l’(im)possible. Epistémologie de l’imagination au siècle des Lumières
Session 4 (11:00-12:30)
BALDINE SAINT GIRONS
Du rire, de son refus, de son absence
DOMINIQUE PEYRACHE-LEBORGNE
Arabesques et escarboucles, ou la sublimation du grotesque : une utopie romantique
Session 5 (2:00-3:30)
FLORENCE VATAN
Le grotesque et le sublime: le cas de Bouvard et Pécuchet
JAN MIERNOWSKI
Le roman face à la beauté : le grotesque en quête du sublime
The Symposium was made possible thanks to the generous financial support of the Anonymous Fund of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The talks and subsequent discussions will be conducted in French.
For more information, contact Professor Jan Miernowski. jmiernow@wisc.edu