• Colloques / Journées d'études,
  • Langues et cultures,

International Conference " Modernist Emotions "

Publié le 7 février 2019 Mis à jour le 7 février 2019

Second International Conference " Modernist Emotions " of the French Society for Modernist Studies (SEM) co-organized by CREA (Centre de Recherches Anglophones - EA 370), Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense and UFR LCE, PRISMES - EA 4398, Université Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3 with the support of Institut des Amériques and Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France

Date(s)

du 22 juin 2016 au 24 juin 2016

Lieu(x)

Bâtiment Max Weber (W)

Keynote lectures, plenary sessions and panel 3c: amphitheater
Panels a: seminar room A
Panels b: seminar room B
Plan d'accès

Despite famous claims of impersonality and the suppression of the “I” from the literary work, beginning with Ezra Pound’s merciless editing of T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land, the transparency and objectivity of an emotion-free subject has remained an ever-receding horizon. Even Ezra Pound’s image is “an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time,” which combines the rush of “primary” conception and emotion with the impulse to create the new forms of a new aesthetics (Blast 1914). Rationality and the irrational collide in the vortex, as emotions are in fact viewed in an ambivalent manner by Modernists, both as the sentimentalist rubbish assigned to a schematic revision of late Romanticism, thus to be eradicated, and as the very matter for the work of art, for aesthetic experimentation, and for the education of the public, in the context of an unnerving historical modernity.

Emotions create webs of interaction, or, conversely, isolate the individual in the labyrinth of intimacy. Language emerges as the mode of expression of emotions, or as the very obstacle separating us from a fantasized experience of pure emotion. We hope to foster reflection and discussion that will go beyond the paradox of a passionately anti-emotional Modernism towards a reconsideration of the large extent to which Modernism attempts to channel, remotivate, and revalue the power of emotion.

As the conference is organized by the French Society of Modernist Studies—Société d’Etudes Modernistes—, we seek to bring together scholars from all countries and hope to strengthen collaborations between French and international researchers.
 

Keynote speakers:

  • Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford)
  • Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania)



Organizers:

  • Hélène Aji
  • Caroline Pollentier
  • Naomi Toth

Scientific committee :

  • Hélène Aji, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
  • Catherine Bernard, Université Paris Diderot
  • Nicholas Manning, Université Paris Sorbonne
  • Laura Marcus, New College, Oxford
  • Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
  • Caroline Pollentier, Université Paris Sorbonne nouvelle–Paris 3
  • Julie Taylor, Northumbria University
  • Naomi Toth, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
  • Steven Yao, Hamilton College, New York
Partenaires :

Mis à jour le 07 février 2019