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What is Literariness?

10 oct 2017 18:00 - 13 oct 2017 16:00
Institut d'études avancées de Paris
Hôtel de Lauzun
17 quai d'Anjou
75004 Paris
information@paris-iea.fr
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Conference organized by Massimo Salgaro (University of Verona / 2017-2018 Paris IAS fellow) and Paul Sopcak (MacEwan University), in collaboration with the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), with the support of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.


Program


Tuesday, October 10th

18:00 - 18:10   Introduction
Paul Sopcak (MacEwan University), Massimo Salgaro (University of Verona / 2017-2018 Paris IAS fellow)

18:10 - 18:50   The invisible net
Willie van Peer (University of Munich), Anna Chesnokova (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University)

18:50 - 19:30   Conceptualizing foregrounding: An interdisciplinary research program
Frank Hakemulder (Utrecht University)

 

Wednesday, October 11th: Empirical studies of foregrounding

9:20 - 10:20   Keynote Speech : The experience of literariness
David Miall (University of Alberta)

10:20 - 10:40   Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:20   Intermediate states of literariness: Criticality and literariness in the factual (ethnographic) poem and the fictional prose paragraph
David Hanauer (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

11:20 - 12:00   Narrative styles and mental imagery
Anne Mangen (University of Stavanger), Anežka Kuzmičová (Stockholm University), Jana Lüdtke (Freie Universität Berlin), Lilla Magyari (Pázmány Péter Catholic University), Arthur M. Jacobs (Freie Universität Berlin)

12:00 - 14:00   Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:40   Literarinesses: A bag of three-sided coins
Stefan Blohm, Christine A. Knoop (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)

14:40 - 15:00   Coffee Break

15:00 - 15:40   Rereading and literariness
Moniek M. Kuijpers (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics), Frank Hakemulder (Utrecht University)

15:40 - 16:00   Discussion

 

Thursday, October 12th: Cognitive and neurocognitive studies of response to style

9:20 - 10:00   Reader responses to style in poetry: A neurocognitive poetics perspective
Arthur M. Jacobs (Freie Universität Berlin)

10:00 - 10:20   Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:00   Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language
Winfried Menninghaus (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)

11:00 - 11:40   Neurocognitive responses to prosody
Manon Jones (Bangor University)

11:40 - 13:40   Lunch Break

13:40 - 14:20   Measuring eye movements to understand the processing of literariness
Roel M. Willems (Radboud University Nijmegen)

14:40 - 14:50   Coffee Break

14:50 - 15:30   Empirical studies of literariness: Understanding the value of authorial revision
Kathy Conklin (University of Notthingham), Josephine Guy (University of Notthingham)

15:30 - 16:00   Discussion

16:15 - 17:15   Poster presentations

 

Friday, October 13th: Evolving research perspectives

9:20 - 10:00   Literariness in cross-cultural poem reading
Yehong Zhang (Tsinghua University)

10:00 - 10:40   T-REX: Triggers of reader emotion and experientiality
Caroline Kutsch (Aachen University), Julia Vaeßen (Aachen University), Sven Strasen (Aachen University)

10:40 - 11:00   Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:40   Epiphany as elaborated surprise, and the literary techniques which produce it
Nigel Fabb (University of Strathclyde)

11:40 - 12:20   Living Metaphor as the Site of Bidirectional Literary Engagement
Don Kuiken (University of Alberta)

12:20 - 14:00   Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:40   The Proof in the Pudding: On the Empirical Values of Literary Interpretation
Mark J. Bruhn (Regis University)

14:40 - 15:00   Coffee Break

15:00 - 15:40   How does literariness develop? An ontogenetic approach
Gerhard Lauer (University of Basel)

15:40 - 16:00   Discussion de clôture
Massimo Salgaro (University of Verona / résident 2017-2018 de l'IEA de Paris)

 

 

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