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Download Newsletter VI 2012 ENN Newsletter – Issue VI – April 2012 Index: O: Editorial 2 I: ENN Membership 5 II: Obituary: Dorrit Cohn (1924-2012) 6 III: Upcoming events and CfPs 9 III.1: RRENAB - Sixth meeting in Louvain-la-Neuve III.2: CfP: Language and Psychoanalysis IV: Conference reports 11 IV.1 China’s 3rd International Narratology Conference & 5th National Narratology Conference, 2011 IV.2: “Narrative. Theory and Interpretation. 3rd International Workshop on “Philosophy-Sign-Narrative” IV.3: “La narrativité entre sémiotique, sciences cognitives et sciences sociales”. IV.4: “2012 Narrative Conference, Las Vegas” V: ENN Website 18 VI: New Publications 19 VII: Reports on Publications 20 ENN Newsletter VI 1 O: Editorial ENN April 10, 2012 Dear Fellow Narratologists, Spring is here, so it is time to bring you up to date on the many interesting narratolog- ical activities around the world and within the ENN and let you know about upcoming activities and events. *** As most of you have probably heard, narratology lost one of its important figures a few weeks ago. Dorrit Cohn, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, passed away on March 10. We have asked Professor Monika Fludernik to write an obituary for this newsletter. You will find it below. *** The planning for the 3rd International ENN Conference in Paris on March 29-30, 2013 is underway and the CfP will be out soon. The conference will take place at the Cité Universitaire de Paris, and the keynote speakers are confirmed: Raphaël Baroni (Lausanne), José Ángel García Landa (Saragossa), Jan Christoph Meister (Ham- burg), Brian Richardson (Maryland), Jean-Marie Schaeffer (CRAL) and Dan Shen (Beijing). Two workshops will be held during the conference: a) Musical Narratology, directed by Márta Grabósc (Strasbourg and Institut Universi- taire de France); b) Narratology and the Pragmatics of Greco-Roman Myth, directed by Claude Calame (EHESS-CRAL). As in Kolding last year, there will be a pre-conference doctoral seminar. It will be di- rected by Wolf Schmid (Hamburg) and Per Krogh Hansen (Kolding) and take place March 27-28. Details will be included in the coming CfP. *** ENN Newsletter VI 2 The bi-annual conference is also the time for the General Meeting of the ENN to take place and for new Members of the Steering Committee to be elected. According to article 4.3 of the ENN constitution, Elected Members of the Steering Committee normally serve for two (2) years, with one-third of their number retiring at the time of each election. Retiring Members are eligible for immediate re-election for one further term in office of two (2) years. At the last General Meeting, it was decided that the three Members of the Committee then in office should remain for another two years due to the fact that the ENN was still in its start-up phase. With procedures now in place, it will be necessary at the General Meeting to take place in 2013 to elect new Members to the Committee. To meet the constitution’s requirement on renewal of the Committee, all three Members currently in office will retire; however, as a matter of practical necessity and in order to complete the transitional period, it is proposed that, exceptionally, one of the cur- rent Members of the Committee be elected to a third and final term in office. Nominations to the Steering Committee are thus open. In accordance with article 4.2 of the constitution, Nominations must be followed by a statement from the nominee confirming his or her willingness to serve and must be seconded by two (2) Members of the ENN other than the nominee. Nominations must reach the Secretary on or be- fore the published deadline for nominations, which shall be no less than eight (8) weeks prior to the General Meeting. In observance of these requirements, nominations, accompanied by 1) the candi- date’s statement and 2) the two motions by active Members of the ENN seconding the declared candidate, must reach the Secretary of the Committee no later than midnight Thursday January 31, 2013. ENN Newsletter VI 3 It must be emphasized that a seat on the Steering Committee is tantamount to agree- ing to organize one of the ENN’s bi-annual conferences. It is thus essential that, in accepting the nomination, the candidate clearly state 1) that his or her institution has consented to act as the headquarters of the ENN for the two-year period during which the bi-annual conference will take place and 2) that this institution undertakes to provide the institutional backing which its consent entails, bearing in mind that the ENN has no financial resources of its own. Candidacies to the Steering Committee – as well as any questions relating thereto – must be sent to: John Pier: [email protected] Cc to: Per Krogh Hansen: [email protected] Wolf Schmid: [email protected] *** The second publication of proceedings from the 2nd ENN Conference in Kolding have appeared now. Please enjoy all the stimulating papers in the AJCN at http://cf.hum.uva.nl/narratology/ Best wishes, Per Krogh Hansen, John Pier and Wolf Schmid The ENN Steering Committee ENN Newsletter VI 4 I: ENN Membership To facilitate exchanges between ENN members, the Steering Committee has set up a list of members together with their contact information and a brief summary of each member’s research profile, which is available on the ENN website. This list can also be consulted by visitors to the website who are not members. A fairly large number of members have not yet sent in their files, and it also appears that a number of files are in need of updating due to new research interests, change of affiliation or new e-mail or postal addresses. As anyone who has consulted the list will know, this is a valuable resource. The form has been designed to simplify the task as much as possible, so we ask that you take a few minutes to submit this useful information at your earliest convenience. To access the form for sending in your contact data and profile, please click here: http://www.narratology.net/node/11 Also, it is important that the ENN staff be kept informed of any change of e-mail or postal address and/or of institutional affiliation. For this, we ask that you forward the information to Pernille Dahl Kragh at [email protected]. ENN Newsletter VI 5 II: Dorrit Cohn (1924-2012) The narratological community is mourning the decease of Dorrit Cohn (1924-2012), one of the foremost American narratologists and one who also had close links to Europe. Dorrit Cohn was born in Vienna and just managed to escape in time before the Nazi takeover. She ended up in the United States, where she initially studied physics at Radcliffe College, taking her B.A. degree in 1945, but changed course to do her M.A. in comparative literature (1946). Cohn then moved on to Yale for her doctoral studies, but married and had two children before returning to academe. She completed her PhD in German at Stanford in 1964 and then started teaching at Indiana University the same year. In 1971 she arrived at Harvard. She was one of three women professors appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that year, thus in the vanguard of women's entry into elite positions in academia. (Harvard had so far only appointed four women in its entire history.) She retired from active duty in 1995. Cohn was the recipient of many prizes. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970-71; was the recipient of the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal in 1982 and of the Phi Beta Kappa teaching award at Harvard in 1984. Cohn was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2011, too late for her to receive it in person, she was honoured by the International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (ISSN) with the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award. At Harvard Dorrit Cohn, as the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, left a strong mark on the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Germanic languages and literatures, where she taught classes in both German and comparative literature. She regularly treated the work of Marcel Proust, Kafka, Hermann Broch, Flaubert and Thomas Mann. As a teacher beloved of her students, she stood out for her intellectual rigour, her acute perception of textual detail, and her ability to reason logically and systematically. As Maria Tatar noted, “She was someone who possessed true finesse and yet had a kind of rigor that we associate ENN Newsletter VI 6 with science. […] There was a kind of mathematical precision to her work. She had an exquisite literary sensibility and was able to see things in text that no one had discovered before. She understood the sorcery of words.” (www.boston.com) From the time of her early essays, for instance her essay on free indirect discourse in the first-person novel in Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift (GRM) 1969, Dorrit Cohn engaged in a close cooperation with both Franz Karl Stanzel, the leading German-language narratologist, and Gérard Genette, the French doyen of narratology. Her path-breaking Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction (1978) focussed on three forms of thought representation in fiction: psychonarration (the narrator’s report of what goes on in characters’ minds); free indirect discourse (which she called narrated thought); and interior monologue or direct internal speech. Cohn’s most important emphasis in her narratological work was on the distinction between first-person narrative and third-person narrative.
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