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THE SUSSEX CENTRE FOR FOLKLORE, FAIRY TALES AND FANTASY

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The Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy presents

Michael Hattaway Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield, editor of A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Cul-ture; The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama and Shakespeare in the New Europe, presents his British Academy Lecture

“Enter Caelia, the Fairy Queen in her night attire”: Shakespeare and the Fairies

Tuesday May 24th, 5:15pm, Mitre Lecture Theatre, University of Chichester, Bishop Otter Campus

Admission: £5/£3 To book your ticket email [email protected]

Mervyn Peake: A Centenary Celebration

9 April – 17 July 2011

Most famous for his best-selling series of Gothic fantasies, Mervyn Peake was one of the most multi-talented artists of the twentieth century. Painter, novelist, author, war artist, poet and dramatist, he also illustrated classic works such as and Grimm's Fairy Tales. To mark the centenary of his birth, the Sussex Centre for Folklore Fairy Tales and Fantasy will hold an international conference July 15th-17th 2011. The Con- ference will be accompanied by art exhibitions, talks and other events in Chichester.

Pallant House Gallery presents a display of Peake‟s most famous illustrations. A related ex- hibition runs at the Otter Gallery from 26 May to 17 July.

Pallant House Events TALK: The Life & Work of Mervyn Peake Thursday 14 April, 6pm An illustrated talk by Sebastian Peake, son of Meryn Peake, charting the evolution of his father's life as an art- ist, from his birth in , to his emergence as an illus- trator and writer. £8 (£7 students, £6.50 Friends) includes a glass of wine

Exhibition Tour: Mervyn Peake: A Centen- ary Celebration Thursday 30 June, 11am Professor Bill Gray, Professor of Literary History at the Uni-versity of Chichester, and Director of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, provides his perspective on Peake's iconic illustrations and prints. £8 (students £4)

THEMED WORKSHOPS A programme of children's story-making and young artists' illustration workshops accompanies the exhibition. For more details contact Pallant House Gallery on 01243 774557

Otter Gallery Events Mervyn Peake Centenary Celebration Otter Gallery, 26 May–17 July A complementary exhibition at the Otter Gallery, University of Chichester, focusing on Peake's nonsense and poetry illustrations including 'The Hunting of the Snark' and 'Rhymes without Rea- son'. Free

Mervyn Peake Tour Thursday 30 June, 2pm Bill Gray will lead a free public tour of the Otter Gallery exhibition. Please book on 01243 816098.

Creative Writing Workshop, 26th May 2011, 12:00-13:30 Stephanie Norgate will host a creative writing workshop based on responses to Mervyn Peake’s il- lustrative work in the Otter Gallery. Participants will work with Peake’s absurd figures to create in- ner narratives and voices. Produce poems, microficions, monologues and surreal stories...whatever takes your fancy. Total be-ginners and experienced writers welcome. For further details or to book your place, email Laura Kidner, the curator of the Otter Gallery at [email protected]. £3 Mervyn Peake and the Fantasy Tradition July 15th-17th 2011 University of Chichester

The conference will celebrate, explore and discuss the many facets of Peake’s rich creativity, including his work as fantasy novelist, children’s writer, playwright, poet, writer of nonsense verse, artist and illustrator (both of his own books and classics such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Hunting of the Snark, the Alice books, Treasure Island and the Grimms’ Household Tales).

Programme highlights include exhibitions of Peake’s illustra- tive work, an exhibition of rare books, creative responses to Peake’s work, performances, readings, the award-winning by Curious Directive, and a walking tour of Bur- pham where Peake lived led by Sebastian Peake.

Keynote Speakers include Joanne Harris, Peter Winnington, Colin Manlove, Farah Mendlesohn and Sebastian Peake.

Day tickets and weekend tickets are now available from http://www.chiuni.ac.uk/conference/mervyn.cfm

The conference blog can be found at www.mervynpeakeconference2011.blogspot.com Register Now!

Book your place for the international conference on the life, work and in- fluences of Mervyn Peake hosted by the University of Chichester in collaboration with the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy Mervyn Peake and the Fantasy Tradition A Centenary Conference

July 15th-17th 2011 - University of Chichester

Keynote speakers include: Joanne Harris, Peter Winnington, Colin Manlove, Farah Mendlesohn & Sebastian Peake

To reserve your ticket now go to: http://www.chiuni.ac.uk/conference/mervyn.cfm Conference Programme *please note this programme may be subject to minor changes*

Thursday, July 14th 19:00 – Reception in Council Chambers for Early Bird Delegates.

Friday, July 15th 9:30 – 10:30 – Registration, tea & coffee, opportunity to visit the Otter Gallery 10:30 – 11:30 – Keynote Lecture One, Peter Winnington 11:30-12:00 – Break 12:00-13:30 – Parallel Session A Panel One: The Fantastic and the Gothic · Charlie White: “„O little revolution in great shades!‟ Peake and the Gothic” · Nahid Shahbazi Moghadam and Arbaayah ali Termizi: “The Grotesque in 'Danse '” · Pierre François: “Success and failure of the mythopoeic element in the Ti- tus books” Panel Two: Madness and Otherness · Sophie Aymes-Stokes: “I‟m on a piece of floating ice the size of Kent”: eccentricity in Mervyn Peake‟s work” · Matthew Sangster: “Peake and Vulnerability” · Jeremy Sampson: “Towards a Hermeneutics of Otherness: A comparative study of “The Hall of Bright Carvings” in Mervyn Peake‟s and Samuel Beckett‟s Waiting for Godot” 13:30-15:00 – Lunch 15:00- 16:00 – Keynote Lecture Two: Colin Manlove 16:00-17:30 – Parallel Session B Panel One: Genre · Katherine Langrish: “Pirates and Explorers: Mervyn Peake‟s adventures in the realms of children‟s fiction.” · Larisa Prokhorova: “Algorithm of Disenchantment: Anti-Tale” · Joseph Rex Young: “But Are They Fantasy?: Peake‟s Titus Novels and Modern Fantasy Theory” Panel Two: Drawings and Illustrations · Francesca Bell: “The Fleeting Line” · Zoë Wilcox: “The Imagination at Work: A Study of the Drawings in the Gormenghast Manuscripts” 17:30- 18:30 – Tours of the Otter Gallery 18:30-20:00 – Dinner 20:00 – 21:00- Keynote Lecture Three: Joanne Harris ticketed event open to public

Saturday, July 16th 9:00-9:30 – Tea & coffee 9:30-11:00 Parallel Session C: Panel One: Landscape/Space · Simon Eckstein: “There‟s No Place like Home” · Edward Carey: “Architecture and Space” · Irene Martyniuk: “(In)visible Black Holes: The Aporias of Mervyn Peake‟s Gormenghast Trilogy” Panel Two: Poetry · Robert Maslen: “Peake and Nonsense Poetry” · Sara Wasson: “Sentient Ruins and the Ventriloquised Dead: Mervyn Peake‟s Wartime Poetry” · John Bachelor: “Peake and Tennyson” 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-12:30 – Keynote Lecture Four: Farah Mendelssohn 12:30-15:30 – Lunch & Tour of Burpham with Sebastian Peake 16:00-17:30 – Parallel Session D: Panel One: Peake and the Canon · Mark Andersen: “A Painter‟s Ecstasy” · Gaby Steinke, “Pirates and Explorers: Mervyn Peake in and beyond the „Boys‟ Own‟ tradition” · John Vernon Lord, “A Tutorial with Mervyn Peake” Panel Two: Performing Peake ·Kim Pearce, Curious Directive Theatre Company: “Adapting Boy in Darkness” ·Vikki Weston, Blackshaw Theatre: “Adapting Titus Groan: creating the 'sublime character' through collaborative writing.” · Aaron Paterson, Blue Elephant Theatre: “Performing Peake” 17:30-18:30- Keynote Lecture Six: TBC 18:30-20:00 – Dinner 20:00 –Performance: Curious Directive, Boy In Darkness

Sunday, July 17th 10:30 – 12:30 Roundtable: Mervyn Peake and the Fantasy Tradition 12:30- 13:00 Performances · Stuart Olesker: “Adhesive Smiles: Nonsense and a Taste for Language in Peake‟s Poetry. A Reading of a Range of Peake‟s Nonsense and Serious Poetry” 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:00 Jaw Rattle Productions: ‘Mervyn Peake: As I See It’ 15:00 – 16:00 Blackshaw Theatre Company: Rehearsed Readings

MPHIL IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN

Applications are invited for a new one-year MPhil course in Trinity College, Dublin.

This new course will admit its first intake in September 2011.

What is it? The opportunity to study a broad range of children‟s literature in English, with spe-cial attention paid to the role of the Irish contribution to the development of children‟s literature in English. The course is uniquely supported by the Pollard Collec- tion, the bequest of more than 10,000 children‟s books left to the College by Mary „Paul‟ Pollard in 2005, and by the College‟s deposit library. It‟s the only full-time one year taught masters course in children‟s literature in Ireland.

What’s on the course? A core course, „Perspectives and Case Studies in children‟s literature‟, which addresses a range of texts, theoretical positions and genres across three hundred years of writing in English for children; a one-semester research methods course taken in common with all postgraduate students in the School; five option courses, from which you get to choose two- The child and Victorian literature; Tolkien; historical novels; Writing for juveniles from Janeway to Jane Austen; Young Adult fiction; and a dissertation mod- ule, where you choose your own re-search topic in agree- ment with your supervisor.

How is it taught and examined? Eight contact hours a week from September to April: four for the core course, two for your option, and (in the first semester only) two for re- search methods; an essay to be submitted for each course; then a supervised dissertation of 15,000-20,000 words to be submitted at the end of the summer.

What qualifications do I need to apply? You should have a good honors degree (at least an upper second, or a GPA of at least 3.3) and we‟ll want to see a sample of your own critical writing (3,000-5,000 words).

How do I find out more? Further details, including a course outline are available at http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/childrens-literature/ Alternatively, write to Amanda Piesse or Pádraic Whyte at the School of English Trinity College Dublin or email [email protected] or [email protected]

Students intending to apply for this course should submit online at http:// www.pac.ie/tcd

Closing Date: Initial deadline is April 1st 2011. Late applications will also be considered. Other Events

Blue Elephant Theatre,

Mervyn Peake 1911-1968 Centenary Celebrations

April 26th-28th 2011

The Blue Elephant marks Mervyn Peake's centenary year with a mini-festival of his plays and poetry celebrating his diversity as a writer. Following our world premiere of The Cave last year, we discover once again that Peake's imagina- tion and inspiration extended far beyond Gormenghast...

Tuesday 26 April: Rehearsed read- ing of Noah's Ark

Intended for children, Peake‟s unmistakable prose makes his behind-the-scenes account of this well-known biblical story just as engaging for adult audiences. Originally aired on BBC radio, this charming play is long overdue a theatrical staging.

Wednesday 27 April: Rehearsed reading of Mr Loftus or And a Horse of Air

The dust in his room is ankle deep yet Mr Loftus still insists on being served tea and brandy by his butler. With an eccentric anti-hero whose manners are decidedly ungentlemanly, this previously unseen play is Peake's dis- tinctive take on the comedy of manners.

"Mad? Did you say mad? I have gone sane. That's much more difficult."

Thursday 28 April: The Poems of Peake An evening of Peake's poetry read, staged and interpreted by a range of artists. With a post-performance Q&A with the writer's son Sebastian Peake.

Tickets are FREE but must be reserved in advance to guarantee entrance. Go to http://www.blueelephanttheatre.co.uk/howtobook

C. S. LEWIS, HIS FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES: QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY 2 & 3 June 2011, Lille Catholic University, France.

Although certain aspects of C. S. Lewis's work have been studied in great detail, others have been comparatively neglected. In this international conference, the first of its kind to be held in France, we hope to look at Lewis's life and work, and those of his friends and associates, from many different angles.

Questions of identity are essential to the understanding of any writer. The ways au- thors perceive themselves and who they are, the communities they belong to by birth or choice, inevitably influence their work. The way they present other people, real or fictional, may also be rooted in their own conception of identity. We are therefore including papers which exam- ine gender and family roles, national, re- gional, racial or professional identities, membership of particular churches, movements or clubs, ideological or politi- cal attachments, descriptions of oneself (eg. ‘dinosaur’, ‘Old West- ern Man’) either with regard to Lewis and those who knew him or in a study of their writings. Among Lewis's friends and associates we include his brother Warnie, his wife Joy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Dorothy L. Sayers, T.S. Eliot, Ruth Pitter, Austin Farrer, Owen Barfield and others who worked with Lewis or who influ- enced him. Comparative studies of Lewis and an-other writer have also been welcomed.

For further details see: http://www.flsh.fr/colloques/77-cs-lewis

MERVYN PEAKE CENTENARY To celebrate the centenary of his birth I will be issuing a catalogue entirely devoted to works by and about Mervyn Peake in the summer of 2011. Consisting of acquisitions made during the last 10 years it will be the largest single catalogue devoted to him that I have issued to date, with over 200 items. The range of items includes 1st Editions, significant re-issues, exhibition catalogues, ephemera and original artwork including drawings, watercolours and oil paintings.

I will also be exhibiting at: Mervyn Peake and the Fantasy Tradition: A Centenary Conference 15th and 16th July Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester.

To be included in the mailing for this catalogue, contact me: Michael S.Kemp Bookseller 19 Adelaide Gardens, Minster-on-Sea, Kent ME12 3HN Tel. 01795 663675; Mobile 07711 856075 Email : [email protected]

2nd International Aksit Göktürk Conference: "Myths Revisited" 28-29 November 2011 Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature - Istanbul, Turkey

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Marina Warner, English Theoretician and Writer of Fiction Murathan Mungan, Turkish Writer of Fiction Myths are almost as old as humanity and the aim of this conference is to explore myths in their manifold aspects. In ancient times myths constituted a vital part of art and life and indeed, art and life were closely intertwined and almost inseparable. Drama emerged and developed during the festivals held in honour of Dionysus and classic trag- edy commonly revolved around the fate of mythical characters. Not only on temples and ancient vases or in classical epic literature do we find represen- tations of mythical stories, but throughout the history of art, artists have constantly had recourse to myth. Myth has even served to explain human psychology as in the case of Sigmund Freud and his theory of the Oedipus Complex. A close look at contemporary art reveals that myth still maintains its vital force, because a great number of contempo- rary artists engage with myths and integrate them into their works. This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to investigate and explore the nature and sig- nificance of myth and its impact on diverse fields of art such as literature, drama, film or painting. To encourage innovative dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from diverse disci- plines and professions. 300-word-abstracts should be submitted by 3 June 2011. Please send your abstracts to Dr. F. Zeynep Bilge: [email protected] Publication News

Edinburgh University Press have just confirmed a con- tract for Professor Bill Gray’s edition of a volume enti- tled Fables and Fairy Tales in the New Edinburgh Edi- tion of the Works of . Bill has had to fight hard to win this contract for a volume that in effect overturns almost 120 years of literary tradition, or collusion, which had disregarded Stevenson’s own plans for a volume of fairy tales, and replaced it with an- other collection which Stevenson himself had explicitly opposed.

The new volume includes the col- lection of fairy tales as planned by Stevenson, including the well- known “The Bottle Imp”. They are being published together for the first time as Stevenson in- tended, along with his complete Fables, which are also being pub- lished together in their entirety for the first time.

The New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson is a major project, supported by the University of Edinburgh, to create the definitive edition of Stevenson’s complete works.