Atelier organisé par Monika Fludernik avec le CRAL (Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage  UMR 8566 EHESS/CNRS) dans le cadre du séminaire "Recherches contemporaines en narratologie".

Présentation de l'atelier

The workshop will focus on intermediality in narrative of the Renaissance period and a larger diachronic range of texts including the Renaissance and eighteenth century, with two papers by Werner Wolf (Université de Graz/Autriche) and Jean-Jacques Chardin (Université de Strasbourg) with extensive discussion. There will be an emphasis on early narratives (since most narratological models focus on post-eighteenth-century texts.)

Professor Wolf will speak on "Transmedial narratology: Theoretical bases and some applications (drama, single paintings, instrumental music)". He will therefore introduce intermediality from the perspective of the stage, painting and music.

By contrast, Jean-Jacques Chardin will concentrate on a genre that combines visual and linguistic elements, namely the emblem. His paper will have the title: "Qui de l'icône ou de la rhétorique dit le plus? Stratégies narratives dans quelques emblèmes anglais du début du 17e siècle." Besides focusing on a very fascinating genre this paper will also open perspectives diachronically back to the Middle Ages.             

The discussion will be in English and French.

The seminar “Recherches contemporaines en narratologie” is a seminar organised under the auspices of the Centre de recherche sur les arts et les langages (CRAL), an internationally acclaimed research unit of the CNRS created in 1983 by Claude Bremond, Raymond Bellour, Gérard Genette, and Tzvetan Todorov. Since February 2013, the seminar has met without interruption twice monthly during the academic year (12 times a year) and since 2006 has been included among the official credit-granting seminars of the EHESS. The seminar (with its own website) is open to graduate students from the EHESS and other Parisian universities, and it is also attended by university professors and researchers as well as by auditors. Lectures are given by members of the Cral, but also and in particular by lecturers invited from the outside (France or abroad), chosen for their expertise according to the topic of the year. Numerous leading international scholars have lectured before the seminar – among them David Herman, Marie-Laure Ryan, Tamar Yacobi, Meir Sternberg, Ansgar Nünning, Henri Meschonnic, Lubomír Doležel, Claude Calame, Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Jean-Michel Adam, Françoise Revaz, Raphaël Baroni, Monika Fludernik. Werner Wolf was a guest lecturer to the seminar in 2008.

In March 2013, the 3rd conference of the European Narratology Network (http://www.narratology.net/) was hosted by the CRAL, where the current headquarters of the ENN are located.

The origins of French narratology are closely associated with CRAL, and the seminar “Recherches contemporaines en narratologie” has contributed to the renewal of narratology in France, also serving as a relay between French and international narratology.

Presentation of the two speakers

Werner Wolf, born in 1955 in Munich/Germany, married, two daughters, has been Chair of English Literature at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz/Austria since 1994 and Head of the Department of English since 2008. He studied English, French and German in Canterbury, Toulouse and Munich, where he passed his PhD exam in 1984 and his post-doctoral exam (Habilitation) in 1991. 2005-2014 member of the FWF (Austrian Science Foundation) in charge of literary studies. Main areas of his research, which has in part been translated into French, Swedish, Czech and Chinese: narratology, intermediality studies (relations between literature, music and the visual arts), self-/metareference in literature and other media, and aesthetic illusion. He has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) since 2010. In particular, his publications include, besides numerous essays, reviews and contributions to literary encyclopedias, the monographs Ästhetische Illu­sion und Illusionsdurchbrechung in der Erzählkunst (Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Fiction, 1993) and The Musicali­zation of Fiction: A Study in the Theory and History of Inter­mediality (1999). He is also co-editor of volumes 1, 3, 5 and 11 of the book series "Word and Music Studies" (1999-2010) as well as of volumes 1, 2, and 6 of the series "Studies in Intermediality": Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media (2006); Description in Literature and Other Media (2007); Immersion and Distance: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media (2013). He has recently conducted a project financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) on 'Metareference – a transmedial phenomenon', in the course of which he edited Metareference across Media: Theory and Case Studies (2009) and The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media: Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation (2011) as vols. 4 and 5 of "Studies in Intermediality".

Jean-Jacques Chardin est Professeur de langue et littèrature anglaise à l'Université de Strasbourg (Classe Exceptionnelle depuis juin 2014). Titulaire de la PERD de 2006 à 2009, il est itulaire de la Prime d'Excellence Scientifique depuis 2009. Après avoir dirigé l’EA 2325 SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone : Représentations, Culture, Histoire) à l’université de Strasbourg de 2009 à 2012, il est actuellement Directeur de RANAM (Recherches Anglaises et Nord-AMéricaines). Il a soutenu sa thèse de doctorat devant l’université de Nancy sur Ernest Christopher Dowson et la crise fin de siècle anglaise (mention très honorable et félicitations du jury), puis a présenté son HDR à l’université de Reims en 2000 (titre du document de synthèse: Du miroir au  masque dans la littérature anglaise du début du XVIIe siècle). Parmi ses livres on peut mentionner Ernest Dowson et la crise du fin de siècle anglaise (Paris: Messene, 1995), As You Like It ou le palimpseste du sens (1997) et Richard III: Dramaturgie des ambiguités (1999). Il a aussi édité plusieurs ouvrages collectifs, dont Culture savante/culture populaire: reprise, recyclage, récupération, RANAM, Strasbourg (2010), et avec Anne Bandry, La Diffusion de l'écrit dans la culture monde anglophone/Spreading the Written Word in the Culture of the English Speaking World, numéro spécial de la Revue de la Société des Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siécles (2010). Ses articles portent sur une grande variété de sujets, entre autres la fin de siècle, Shakespeare, Quarles, Ruskin, Pater et Peacham.

Jean-Jacques Chardin is Professor of English at the University of Strasbourg (Classe Exceptionnelle since June 2014). He has been holding the Prime d’Excellence Scientifique since 2009. Jean-Jacques Chardin was Head SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone : Représentations, Culture, Histoire), the English Research Group, University of Strasbourg (2009-2012), and is now General Editor of RANAM (Recherches Anglaises et Nord-AMéricaines). He submitted his PhD dissertation at the University of Nancy on Ernest Christopher Dowson et la crise fin de siècle anglaise (summa cum laude) and went on for a Habilitation with a thesis on Du miroir au masque dans la littérature anglaise du début du XVIIe siècle, which he defended at the university of Reims. His main publications include Ernest Dowson et la crise du fin de siècle anglaise (Paris: Messene, 1995), As You Like It ou le palimpseste du sens (1997) et Richard III: Dramaturgie des ambiguités (1999). He also edited several books, Culture savante/culture populaire: reprise, recyclage, récupération, RANAM, Strasbourg (2010), and with Anne Bandry, La Diffusion de l'écrit dans la culture monde anglophone/Spreading the Written Word in the Culture of the English Speaking World, a special issue of Revue de la Société des Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siécles (2010). His papers and articles cover a wide range of interests, from the fin-de-siècle, to Shakespeare, Quarles, Ruskin, Pater and Peacham.