This webpage contains audio recordings of keynote and panel sessions presented at the ‘Modernism, Intimacy and Emotion’ symposium which was held at The Grace Hotel, Sydney on the 6-7 February, 2012.
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KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Professor Sascha Bru (Professor of Literary Theory, K.U. Leuven)
“The Shock of the Now: The Sensual Experience of Time in the Modernist Avant-Gardes”
Chair: Julian Murphet
Associate Professor Jonathan Flatley (Department of English, Wayne State University)
“Liking, Likeness, and the Color-Line in Andy Warhol”
Chair: Ann Vickery
Professor Gail Jones (Writing and Society Research Centre, University of Western Sydney)
‘“Growing small wings”: Walter Benjamin, Lola Ridge and the political affect of modernism’
Chair: Lorraine Sim
Professor Henry Sussman (Visiting Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University)
“Theory on the Fly: Critical Synthesis Under Conditions of Material Pirating and Borrowed Time: Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk”
Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis
Day 1: Monday 6th February 2012
SESSION 1
The Relationship Between Form and Feeling in Modernist Literature
Chair: Mark Byron
Iain Bailey, “Beckett, Tone and Distress”
Eric Sandberg, ‘“To want and not to have”: Desire and Form in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse’
Ann Vickery, “Fond(s) of You: Reading Between Love and Sainthood in the Archive of Lesbia Harford”
SESSION 2
Modernist Women Writers and Emotion
Chair: Patricia Juliana Smith
Caroline Webb, ‘“The Only Real Person in a World of Human Flowers”: Emotion and the Solitary Subject in Modernist Fantasy’
Melissa Boyde, ‘“Out of her emotional depth”: Gertrude Stein’s Queer Demonstration’
Helen Rydstrand, “Brevity and Rhythm: Modernist Poetics in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Prelude’”
Modernism and Performance
Chair: Andrew Carruthers
Carolyn Burns, “The Representation of Reason and Desire in Adaptations of Thomas Mann’sDeath in Venice”
Michelle Duffy and Paul Atkinson, “Unnatural movements: Modernism’s shaping of intimate relations in Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps”
Bradley Wells, “Violent Flesh: Incarnational Love in the Verse Drama of Charles Williams—a very modern ‘Inkling’”
SESSION 3
Virginia Woolf and Modernist Aesthetics
Chair: Caroline Webb
Yu-Yen Liu, “Unsettling the Rhetoric of Modernism: Emotions, Aesthetics, and Woolf’s Fiction”
Christina Alt, “Sentiment-objects: Virginia Woolf and the emotion in things”
Film and Modernism: Artistic Intimacies
Chair: Julian Murphet
James Gourley, “Intimate Time: The Limits of Temporality in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega”
Jason Tuckwell, “The Function of Limits”
Anthony Uhlmann, “Modern Film in Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country”
Day 2: Tuesday 7th February
SESSION 4
Modernism and the Body
Chair: Bronwen Levy
Fiona Gregory, “Death, Fashion and Feeling: Reading Around The Suicide of Dorothy Hale(1939)”
Alix Baumgartner, “‘O cant you see it, O cant you see it’: Barely seeable bodies and the composite aesthetic in Jean Toomer’s Cane”
Prudence Black, “Practices of Intimacy: The Touch of the Cloth”
James Joyce and Modernism
Chair: John Attridge
Miri Jassy, “Cutting room flaw: assaying pleasure and perversion in the filmed intimacies ofFinnegans Wake”
Nicola Spunt, “Modernism and Intimacy: Between Ontology and Tropology in Joyce”
SESSION 5
Marra: Transferring Emotion
Chair: Ivor Indyk
Mark Byron, “Dispersed Passion in Beckett’s Watt”
Emmett Stinson, “‘Deadness’, Affect and Laughter in Wyndham Lewis’s The Apes of God”
David Large, ‘“The power and purity”: Sublimation and projection in Malcolm Lowry’sUltramarine’
Shame and Modernism
Chair: Sue Thomas
Erica Johnson, “Sasha’s Shame: Affective Memory in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight”
Naomi Milthorpe: ‘“Too, too shaming:” Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies’
SESSION 6
Ugly Feelings and Modernism
Chair: Anthony Uhlmann
Amy Parish, “Disappointing Sons: Guilt, intimacy and estrangement in Franz Kafka’s ‘Letter to His Father’ and J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime”
Lachlan Montgomery, “An Icon of Abjection: Cultural Anxiety and the Outcast in the Novels of Jean Genet”
John Attridge, “Jealousy, contingency and telephones in A la recherche du temps perdu”
Australian Literary Modernisms
Chair: Gail Jones
Ivor Indyk, “Patrick White’s Calico Bag”
Joy Wallace and John O’Carroll, “The man without intimacy: The role of Gilbert in The Little Company”
Bronwen Levy, “Intimacy and Emotion in Elizabeth Jolley”
SESSION 7
Modernism, Affect, and Understanding
Chair: Prudence Black
Susan Best, “Art, intimacy and affect: The late works of Lygia Clark”
Cristina Silaghi, “Inner Process, Outer Form: Empathy, Representation and Abstraction in the Early Twentieth-Century Writings of Wilhelm Worringer”
Christopher Oakey, “Intimate Experiences: affect and understanding in H.D.’s Sea Garden”
Marra: Decorum or Intimacy?
Chair: Ann Vickery
Patricia Juliana Smith, “All is Fair in Love and War: Intimacy, Deceit and Treason in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day”
Jessica Gildersleeve, ‘“A little point of darkness”: The Anxiety of Intimacy in Elizabeth Taylor’sAt Mrs Lippincote’s (1945) and Palladium (1946)’
Karen Barker, “Vitalist Sexuality: D.H. Lawrence’s Repudiation of Intimacy”