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Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna The Language(s) of Romanticism
Bologna 28 Febbraio – 2 Marzo 2003 Aula Prodi (Piazza S. Giovanni in
Monte) - Aula Absidale S. Lucia
From 28 February to 2 March 2003 Bologna is to host an international conference on The Language(s) of Romanticism organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Romantic Studies together with the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), whose members include some of the most eminent American and European romanticists. It is the first time that the yearly conference of BARS has been organised in a non-English speaking country. This important appointment, supported by The British Council, will take place over three days in the Department of Languages (University of Bologna), in the Aula Prodi (Piazza San Giovanni in Monte), in the Aula Absidale of Santa Lucia and in the premises of the British Council. The three days essentially aim to give scholars and experts on Romanticism from all over the world an opportunity to compare, discuss and exchange their ideas on issues concerning the language / languages of Romantic literature and culture. The plurality and diversity of these languages clearly come to the fore in the various sections into which the conference has been divided. This division has been conceived so as to offer the numerous participants (speakers and non-speakers) the possibility of engaging in a debate within the single section and of discerning the links and reciprocal influences among the different fields of Romantic languages. One of the sections will be specifically devoted to translation – both literary translation and, in its broader sense, the transposition and transmission of cultural meanings, codes and traditions from one linguistic context to another. Some of the subjects addressed by the papers are the late eighteenth-century development of literary translation produced by women, the Italian translations of British Romantic writers, and the fascination and curiosity that the Italian language exercised on these writers. Another section will focus on the analysis of the different aesthetic categories of Romanticism in the light of the latest critical and theoretical approaches, and will include papers ranging from the eighteenth-century discourse of the Picturesque to the language of the Romantic Sublime. A peculiarity of this section will be its interdisciplinarity, or the syncretic relations and mutual influences that the speakers will highlight between the various artistic and literary expressions of Romanticism. Many papers deal with the development, description and hybridisation of the rich variety of literary genres in Romantic writing. Besides poetry, the indisputably dominant genre at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, several papers aim at rediscovering and exploring the characteristics of other genres, such as the essay and the novel, which are still underestimated by critics, despite their significant impact on the ideological, linguistic and political issues of the time. In fact, a separate section is specifically devoted to the philosophic, political and linguistic aspects of Romantic writing and culture, so as to show the fertility and wide diffusion of ideas in the intellectual circles as well as in the literary production of the Romantic age. Drama is one of the genres that has too long been neglected by Romantic studies. This is why the conference organisers have decided to reserve a specific section for the "language" and "languages" of Romantic dramatic theory and production. The papers of this rich section will tackle a wide range of topics, from the strictly performative aspects of theatre to the more literary and theoretical domains of the different dramatic genres. A considerable number of papers will concern women's Romantic drama, not only the plays written by women but also their involvement in the productive, material as well as performative aspects of theatre. This is still a soewhat virgin territory in literary history and criticism, and indeed one of the most conspicuous features of the conference program is the intention to reassess women's writing and women’s contribution to the theoretical formulation of Romanticism beyond the conventional genre and gender divisions established by the, traditional, and now obsolete, patriarchal literary canon. This intention is part of a more general revaluation of women writers of the Romantic period whose increasingly evident results include the recent publication of various anthologies and critical works on the achievements of these female authors. Finally, the conference also presents a section on comparative studies that intends to examine the relations among national European literatures and cultures between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. The shortlist of participants includes scholars from all over the world (Italy, Spain, England, Scotland, Canada, United States, Ukraine, and Taiwan). The speakers will include: Beatrice Battaglia (Università di Bologna), Lilla Maria Crisafulli (Università di Bologna), Toni Cerutti (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Rosy Colombo (Università La Sapienza di Roma), Claudia Corti (Università di Firenze), Nora Crook (APU, Cambridge), Beatriz Gonzales (University of Castilla), Simon Haines (Australian National University), Giovanni Iamartino (Università di Milano), Mary Jacobus (Cambridge University), Vivien Jones (University of Leeds), Gary Kelly (University of Alberta), Tomaso Kemeny (Università di Pavia), Igor Maver (University of Ljubljana), Michael O’Neill (University of Durham), Francesca Romana Paci (Università Occidentale del Piemonte), Reeve Parker (Cornell University), Cecilia Peitropoli (Università di Bologna), David Punter (University of Bristol), Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario), Diego Saglia (Università di Parma), Esther Schor (University of Princeton), Anna Rosa Scrittori (Università di Venezia), Annamaria Sportelli (Università di Bari), Richard Steadman-Jones (University of Sheffield), Maria Stella (Università La Sapienza di Roma), Timothy Webb (University of Bristol), John Whale (University of Leeds). On behalf of the Organising Committee Lilla Maria Crisafulli
Friday 28 February 2003 Aula Prodi (Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2) 15.45 Opening Remarks Pier Ugo Calzolari, Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Bologna Alberto Destro, Preside della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Luciano Formisano, Direttore del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne John Fry, Director of The British Council, Bologna John Whale, BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Centro Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici
16.10 – 16.30
Matt Ogle, Chris Govias, Gary Kelly, StreetPrint: A Digital Archive of Street Literature of The Romantic Period in Britain 16.30 – 16.45 Coffee Break
Session 1 16.45 - 18.10
Panel I Gabriella Imposti, The Search for Slavonic Identity: Linguists and Philologists in the Slavonic Countries in the First three Decades of the Nineteenth Century. Igor Maver, Byronism in Slovenia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Margherita Versari, Novalis: Figurality of the Poetics of “Alienation”.
Panel II Patricia Pulham, ‘Fiction is Truth in Another Shape’: Language and Representation in William Hazlitt's Liber Amoris John Whale, The Enigma of Dic Aberdaron, the Cambrian Linguist Giuseppe Martella, Vico and Coleridge: Autobiography and Ideal Universal History.
Panel III Francesca Orestano, Picturesque Language: Forms of Translation Annamaria Sportelli, Sublimity and Fragmentariness in Romantic Poetry. Forms and DiscourseSilvia Bordoni, Women and the Language of the Sublime: William and Dorothy Wordsworth; Percy and Mary Shelley
18.15-19.15 Welcome Cocktail
Aula Prodi
Recital for Voice and Piano The Poet Speaks (Schumann) Michaela Esdra (Voice) Angela Annese (Piano)
21.00 Sala Mozart Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna (Via Guerrazzi, 13)
Saturday 1 March 2003
Session 2 9.15-10.55
Panel I Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Pupil Margaret Countess of Mount Cashell Vivien Jones, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sex Education Josephine McDonagh, Malthusian Language and the Economy of Fiction in the Romantic Period
Panel II Carla Pomarè, Dramatising the Old Testament: Byron’s Appropriation of the Language of the Bible in the Hebrew Melodies Ester Schor, Lost in Translation: Thomas M’Crie, the Italian Reformation and the Risorgimento Francesca Romana Paci, Mangan’s ‘Twenty Golden Years Ago’ and ‘Grand Byronian Soul’ Mario Domenichelli, ‘La langue des malheureux’: Goethe, Chateaubriand, Foscolo, Byron, Leopardi
Panel III Tilottama Rajan, Philosophy in a Foreign Language: Hegel's Writing of Spirit in The Aesthetics Francesca Bellini, The Philosophical Language: Wordsworth and Condillac Tomaso Kemeny, Romantic Antinomies. Fragments Inspired by an Invisible Rose. Simon Haines, Romantic Languages of the Self
Panel IV Anna Rosa Scrittori, The Language of Landscape in Anne Radcliffe's Novels Beatrice Battaglia, The Politics of Narrative Picturesque: Gilpin’s Rules of Composition in Ann Radcliffe’s and Jane Austen’s Fiction Valerio Innocenti, Watercolours as a New Language in the Romantic PeriodBeatriz González Moreno, The Discourse of the Sublime and the Inadequacy of Presentation
10.55- 11.20 Coffee Break
Aula Prodi
Session 3 11.20 -13.00
Panel I Marie Luise Wandruszka, For and Against Romanticism: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 's Das Spiegelbild (1841) Claudia Buffagni, The Language of Luise Hensel's Poetry: Passionate Lyrics Between Pietism and Romanticism Jan Plug, Breaking the Law: Kleist’s Der zerbrochne Krug Allan Christensen, Defiance of the Law of the Father: Shelley’s The Cenci and Letitia E. Landon’s The Bride of Lindorf
Panel II Timothy Webb, ‘Sweet Bastard Latin’: Figuring the Italian Language in the Romantic Period Mirella Agorni, Women Translators as Literary Innovators in the Romantic Period Carlotta Farese, From German into English, from Novel into Play: Lovers’ Vows and Das Kind der Liebe Gino Scatasta, Translation Modes: Thomas Moore and James Clarence Mangan
Panel III April London, ‘Revolution of Mind’: Isaac D’Israeli and the Language of Literary History Jane Hodson, Language as it is in Caleb Williams Fabio Liberto, Shelley: the Liberty of Words and the Word for Liberty Carlo Bajetta, Wordsworth’s 1819 Peter Bell and the Language of Literary Politics
Panel IV Linda Nurra, Elocutionary Persuasions: From Thomas Sheridan to Romantic Orality Gary Kelly, Embodying the Word: Class, Gender, and Global Crisis in Joanna Southcott's Counter-Romantic Millenarian Discourse Richard Steadman-Jones, Romantic Recognitio: Learning Other(ed) Languages in the Early Nineteenthth Century
13.00 -14.25 Lunch
Session 4 14.25 - 16.05
Panel I Rosy Colombo, Closet Drama on the Stage of Revolution Maria Stella, Charles Lamb’s Theatre of Mind Isabella Imperiali, The Active Language of Closet Drama: Joanna Baillie and De Monfort Franca Dellarosa, Dramatic Discourse and the Romantic Stance in Joanna Baillie’s Theatre
Panel II Diego Saglia, ‘Floating Sounds that Fill the Skies’: The Language of Voice and Sound in Felicia Hemans Susan Payne, ’Harmonious Language, rich and strong’: Isabella Lickbarrow, Romantic Poet Nora Crook, ‘They might be looked on as little Polyglots’. Women and learning languages in the early Nineteenthth century
Panel III Donatella Abbate Badin, The Languages of Travel Writing in Lady Morgan’s Italy Lia Guerra, Female Travel Writing as Dynamic Space: the Evolution of a Genre Serena Baiesi, Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s The Improvisatrice: Crossway Between Gender and Genre Anna Maria Preti, A Woman’s Affecting Attitude: Involving Encounters in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne, ou l’Italie
Panel IV Paul Chirico, Language as memory: John Clare's Tributes to Keats and Bloomfield Jacqueline Labbe, Language(s) of Subjectivity: Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head Mary Jacobus, Between the Lines: Poetry, Persuasion, and The Feelings of the Past
16.05-16.25 Coffee Break
Session 5 16.25 -18.05
Panel I Maria Schoina, Sights, Signs, and Citations: Italy’s Topographies in P. B. Shelley’s Poetry Gian Mario Anselmi, Manzoni and the Polyphonic Discourse of I Promessi Sposi Clare Bainbridge, ‘Momints of Hagony’: Parody, Invention, and the Silver-Fork Novel. Romolo Runcini, The Fantastic in France from Nodier to Balzac.
Panel II Michael O’Neill, 'The Death of Satan': Wallace Stevens's Esthetique du Mal and the Language of Romantic Imagination David Punter, Blake and Coleridge: The Enigmatic Message Victoria Lipina, The Romantic Essay: The Language of the Soul
Panel III Claudia Corti, Discursive Cross-references and Genre Interferences in Romantic Theory and Practice. Sharon Ruston, That Which We Call Life: Scientific Discourse and Shelleyan Scepticism. Carla Maria Gnappi, Alchemical Symbolism in The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner
Panel IV Nicoletta Caputo, The Language of Passion in Romantic Acting Fernando Cioni, The Language of Romantic Shylocks: The Merchant of Venice on Page and Stage 1784-1838 Federica Ferri, The Language of the Passions in Joanna Baillie's Plays: De Monfort and Count Basil Federica Troisi, Mrs Eliza Vestris: the First Lessee and Reformer of Early Nineteenth-Century English Theatre
20.00 Banquet
Sunday 2 March 2003
Session 6 9.15 - 10.55
Panel I Reeve Parker, Rome at Grasmere: Wordsworthian Intertextuality John Woolford, Repetition in Romantic Language Giuliana Ferreccio, Shapes of Wilful Fancy: Allegory in Wordsworth’s City
Panel II Mirella Billi, Oriental Fantasies in Beckford and Byron: the Language of Romance Gioia Angeletti, Orientalist Discourse, Generic Hybridism and Narrative Ventriloquism in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796) Elena Spandri, ‘As Between Two Wedded Wives’: Wordsworth’s Oriental(ised) Spots of Tradition Maire ni Fhlathuin, ‘Eastern splendour beaming bright’: the Language of Orientalism in Women’s Poetry of the Romantic Period
Panel III Paul Hamilton, Sublimity and Materialism David Miller, The Sublime Language of the Concept: Wordsworth’s Essays upon Epitaphs and Kant’s Intellectual Sublime Silvana Carotenuto, The ‘pro-gramma’ of the sublime:from The Triumph of Life by P.B. Shelley's to J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Panel IV Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Shelley and the Languages of the Arts: Act IV of Prometheus Unbound Cecilia Pietropoli, The Foscari, a Drama for Two Playwrights: Mary Mitford and Lord Byron Jane Moody, Censorship and Gender in Romantic Culture
10.55- 11.15 Coffee Break
Aula Prodi
Session 7 11.15 – 12.55
Panel I Sylvia Adamson, From Personification to Pathetic Fallacy: the Romantic Revolution in the Language of Landscape David Duff, Wordsworth and the Language of Forms Graziella Todisco, Romantic Poetic Forms and the Languages of Art: the Ballad James Thain, Ekphrasis:Representing the Limits of Language
Panel II Giovanni Iamartino, Translated and Transfigured: Byron’s Corsair in Early Nineteenthth-Century Italy Mariantonietta Cerutti, Byron and the Language of the Novel Mauro Pala, Ruins of Awareness: Byron, Foscolo, and Leopardi Michela Calderaro, Language of Silence. Byron's Heroines in The Turkish Tales
Panel III Emma Sdegno, John Ruskin and The Language of Romanticism Rita Severi, Politics and Poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1849 Massimiliano Morini, Wordsworth's Victorian Children
Panel IV Derek Hughes, The Language of the Irrational in Early Romantic Opera Giuseppe Galigani, Manfred and the Painters Enrico Reggiani, Romantic Musico-literary Inflections and Overtones in William Butler Yeats’s Poetics
Conference CoordinatorsLilla Maria Crisafulli romantic@lingue.unibo.it John Whale whale@English.novell.Leeds.AC.UK
Organizing CommitteeBeatrice Battaglia Lilla Maria Crisafulli Cecilia Pietropoli John Whale
Conference SecretariatGioia Angeletti - Serena Baiesi - Federica Ferri Centro Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne Via Cartoleria 5 – 40124 Bologna www.lingue.unibo.it/romanticismo Tel 051.2097227 Fax 051.2097227
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