Deceit, Desire and the Novel Fifty Years LaterMimetic Theory and Literary StudiesUniversity of Cambridge Friday 6 May 2011 Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John’s College 9.30 Registration and Opening Remarks
10.00-11.00 Session 1
Chair: Manuele Gragnolati, Italian, Oxford Bill Burgwinkle, French, Cambridge, ‘Girard and (medieval) sanctity: a reappraisal’ Rosa Mucignat, Comp Lit, King's College, London, ‘Space and Desire in the Realist Novel’
Coffee Break
11.30-12.30 Session 2
Chair: Paul Gifford, French, St Andrews Geoff Gilbert, Comp Lit, American University in Paris (AUP), ‘Mimesis, Crisis, Shame’ Trevor Merrill, French, UCLA, ‘Frederic Beigbeder's Novelistic Conversion’
Lunch
2.00-2.30 Discussion
2.30-3.30 Session 3 Chair: Pierpaolo Antonello, Italian, Cambridge Jan-Melissa Schramm, English, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, ‘On Substitution and Sacrifice: Girard and the figure of the scapegoat in Victorian legal and literary thought’ Florian Mussgnug, Italian and Comp Lit, UCL, ‘Thinking and Writing the Apocalypse’
Coffee Break
4.00-5.00 Session 4 Chair: Alex Houen, English, Cambridge Adam Piette, English, Sheffield, ‘Tout sacrificier, à l’idée fixe, au sacerdoce!’: Girard, Beckett, Sartre, and the French Cold War’ Anne Stillman, English, Clare College, Cambridge, ‘René Girard’s Work at Play’
5.00-5.45 Discussion
6.00 "Triangular Derision," a performance by Jeremy Hardingham, to be followed by drinks
7.30 Dinner: The Punter
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