KONF: What Is Literariness?, Paris (10.10

H-Germanistik KONF: What is Literariness?, Paris (10.10. – 13.10.2017)

Discussion published by Massimo Salgaro on Thursday, September 21, 2017

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.

In literary theory, there is no agreement on the defining properties of the aesthetic qualities and experience of literature, the so-called literariness. Roman Jakobson was the first linguist to introduce the concept of literariness in 1921. In his essay “On Realism in Art,” he stated that “the object of study in literary work is not literature but literariness, that is, what makes a given work a literary work”.

The featured presenters at this conference will describe, instantiate, and justify their approach to empirical studies of literariness, beginning with a keynote presentation by a leading figure in discussions of literariness (David S. Miall) and continuing with an array of presentations by researchers and scholars with varying levels of experience in the area. The goal of the conference is to put in dialogue these different approaches to literariness, a concept of almost 100 years, and to determine whether aspects of these dominant positions can be reconciled, when making finer distinctions, as well as to determine the theoretical and empirical grounding of each. As we are convinced that any new developments surrounding this important concept require a radical form of interdisciplinarity, we invited speakers with different disciplinary backgrounds, such as psycholinguistics (A. Jacobs), digital humanities (G. Lauer), comparative literature and empirical aesthetics (W. Menninghaus), cognitive poetics (M. Bruhn) and empirical literary studies (F. Hakemulder). This interdisciplinary and international will enable us to revisit and relocate “literariness” in contemporary literary theory.

Date 10 oct 2017 18:00 - 13 oct 2017 16:00

Lieu : Institut d'études avancées de Paris Hôtel de Lauzun 17 quai d'Anjou 75004 Paris

Émail du responsable : [email protected]

Citation: Massimo Salgaro. KONF: What is Literariness?, Paris (10.10. – 13.10.2017). H-Germanistik. 09-21-2017. https://networks.h-net.org/node/79435/discussions/264390/konf-what-literariness-paris-1010-%E2%80%93-13102017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Germanistik

Day Time Presenter/Theme Paul Sopcak & Massimo Salgaro Tues, Oct.10 6:00-6:10 PM Opening address Willie van Peer & Anna Chesnokova 6:10-6:50 PM The invisible net Frank Hakemulder 6:50-7:30 PM Conceptualizing foregrounding: An interdisciplinary research program Wed, Oct. 11 Empirical studies of foregrounding Keynote speaker – David Miall 9:20-10:20 AM The experience of literariness 10:20-10:40 AM Coffee break David Hanauer Intermediate states of literariness: Criticality 10:40-11:20 PM and literariness in the factual (ethnographic) poem and the fictional prose paragraph Anne Mangen, Anežka Kuzmičová, Jana 11:20-12:00 PM Lüdtke, Lilla Magyari, & Arthur M. Jacobs Narrative styles and mental imagery 12:00-2:00 PM LUNCH Stefan Blohm & Christine A. Knoop 2:00-2:40 PM Literarinesses: A bag of three-sided coins 2:40-3:00 PM Coffee break Moniek M. Kuijpers & Frank Hakemulder 3:00-3:40 PM Rereading and literariness 3:40-4:00 PM Plenary for open discussion [4:15 IGEL Meeting] Cognitive and neurocognitive studies of Thurs, Oct 12 response to style Arthur M. Jacobs 9:20-10:00 AM Reader responses to style in poetry: A neurocognitive poetics perspective 10:00-10:20 AM Coffee break Winfried Menninghaus 10:20-11:00 AM Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language Manon Jones 11:00-11:40 PM Neurocognitive responses to prosody 11:40-1:40 PM LUNCH Roel M. Willems 1:40-2:20 PM Measuring eye movements to understand the processing of literariness 2:20-2:50 PM Coffee break Kathy Conklin & Josephine Guy 2:50-3:30 PM Empirical studies of literariness: Understanding the value of authorial revision 3:30-4:00 PM Plenary for open discussion

4:15-5:15 PM Poster & French Aperitif Fri, Oct. 13 Evolving research perspectives Yehong Zhang 9:20-10:00 AM Literariness in cross-cultural poem reading Caroline Kutsch, Julia Vaeßen & Sven Strasen 10:00-10:40 AM T-REX: Triggers of reader emotion and experientiality 10:40-11:00 AM Coffee break Nigel Fabb 11:00-11:40 PM Epiphany as elaborated surprise, and the literary techniques which produce it Don Kuiken 11:40-12:20 PM Living metaphor as the site of bidirectional literary engagement 12:20-2:00 PM LUNCH Mark J. Bruhn 2:00-2:40 PM The proof in the pudding: On the empirical values of literary interpretation 2:40-3:00 PM Coffee break Gerhard Lauer 3:00-3:40 PM How does literariness develop? An ontogenetic approach Massimo Salgaro 3:40-4:00 PM Closing Discussion

The Paris Institute of Advanced Study (Paris-IEA) has requested that all participants at our conference (also non-presenting participants) register on their website: http://www.paris-iea.fr/fr/evenements/what-is-literariness?

Diese Ankündigung wurde von H-GERMANISTIK [Constanze Baum] betreut – [email protected] Related date: October 10, 2017 to October 13, 2017