7.0415 Colloquium (1/114)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 14 Jan 1994 18:08:03 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0415. Friday, 14 Jan 1994.

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 21:07:41 EST
From: Antoine Marcel Compagnon <amc6@columbia.edu>
Subject: Colloquium

COLLOQUIUM

Columbia University, New York Centre National de la
Department of French and Recherche scientifique, Paris
Romance Philology Institut des Textes et
Maison francaise Manuscrits modernes


FROM MANUSCRIPTS TO TEXT:
GENETIC CRITICISM AND LITERARY STUDIES

THEORIES
CONTEXTS
CORPUS
A CASE STUDY: FLAUBERT
EDITIONS

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 8-10, 1994

Developed during the 1970s, and yet indebted to the philological
tradition, GENETIC CRITICISM has become a major field of literary
studies in France. Based on the reading of manuscripts and all
documents related to the genesis of a text, its focus is less the
text and its edition "ne varietur" than the dynamic process of
writing and textual production. An original relation to litera-
ture follows: instead of being viewed statically, literature is
understood as always "in actu," implying all the possibilities
sketched out by its writing. Genetic criticism has renewed
literary studies in positing that the manuscript is as relevant
as the text. Recent critical editions of Flaubert, Zola, Proust,
Valery, and Sartre have exemplified this approach.

In the United States and Canada, genetic criticism has met with
increasing interest. Scholars use its theories and methods, but
no group has yet claimed an affiliation with it. It is time for
the best international specialists to meet with North American
experts on TEXTUAL CRITICISM to discuss their theoretical
premises, their aims, and their achievements to date.


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 9:00-12:30
THEORIES
Introduction: Antoine Compagnon, Columbia University
Louis Hay, CNRS, "Critique de la critique genetique"
Jacques Neefs, Universite de Paris VIII, "Genetique et histoire
litteraire"
Graham Falconer, University of Toronto, "La critique genetique:
un retour a l'histoire?"
Presiding: Frank Bowman, University of Pennsylvania

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 8, 2:30-5:45
CONTEXTS
Florence Callu, Bibliotheque nationale, Paris, "La construction
du manuscrit"
Andre Guyaux, Universite de Haute-Alsace, "Peut-on redefinir une
critique des variantes?"
Bernard Beugnot, Universite de Montreal, "Silences et beances du
manuscrit: l'exemple de Ponge"
Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia, "Hyperediting"
Presiding: Michel Pierssens, Universite de Montreal

SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 9:30-12:45
CORPUS
Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania, "Accidents or
Coincidences in Joyce and Pound?"
Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario, and Daniel Ferrer,
CNRS, "Post-genetic Joyce"
Christine Froula, Northwestern University, "'Half Talk Half
Soliloquy': Virginia Woolf's Portraits of the Artist and/as the
Audience"
Edward Mendelson, Columbia University, "'We are changed by what
we change': Revision and Revelation in W.H. Auden"
Presiding: Michael Seidel, Columbia University

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 9, 2:30-5:45
A CASE SUDY: FLAUBERT
Pierre-Marc de Biasi, CNRS, "Les phases genetiques dans 'Saint
Julien'"
Anne Herschberg-Pierrot, Universite de Paris VIII, "Les dossiers
de 'Bouvard et Pecuchet'"
Claudine Gothot-Mersch, Facultes Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, "Con-
tinuite / discontinuite dans le travail de Flaubert"
Raymonde Debray Genette, Universite de Paris VIII, "La critique
genetique: les conditions de sa validite chez Flaubert"
Presiding: Michael Riffaterre, Columbia University

SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 9:30-12:30
EDITIONS
Claude Pichois, Vanderblt University, "La tradition francaise de
l'edition critique"
G. Thomas Tanselle, Columbia University, "Critical Editions and
Genetic Texts"
Jean-Louis Lebrave, CNRS, "Ecriture, lecture, edition"
Presiding: Henri Mitterand, Columbia University
Discussion and concluding remarks: Almuth Gresillon, CNRS

SPONSORS: Sterling Currier Fund, Delegation generale a la langue
francaise, Universite de Paris VIII, Departement des Sciences de
l'homme et de la societe du CNRS, Ministere des Affaires
etrangeres, Ecole normale superieure

The colloquium will be held at the Maison Francaise, Buell Hall,
Columbia University, 116th Street and Broadway.
Papers will be presented in both English and French.
All sessions are free and open to the public.

For information and registration, please contact:
Maison Francaise, Buell Hall
Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027
Tel: (212) 854-4482
Fax: (212) 854-5863