Focalisation, Narration and Writing: The Novel
An International Conference
(KAP17-61022-1.9-BTK)
11th-12th May 2018.
Venue: PPKE BTK, Sophianum
Budapest, Mikszáth Kálmán tér 1.
Friday 11th May – Sophianum, Room 112.
9:30 – 9:40 Welcome
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Nóra Séllei
9:40 – 10:30 Mihhail Lotman (Tallinn University):
Mimesis and Dystopia in Russian Postmodern Novel
10:30 – 10:45 Discussion
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Session I.
Chair: Mihhail Lotman
11:00 – 11:20 Nóra Séllei (University of Debrecen):
The Voice of the Community in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing
11:20 – 11:40 András Kappanyos (University of Miskolc):
Heteroglossia and Inner Monologue: Linguistic Events as Character Traits
11:40 – 12:00 Gábor Tamás Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
Focalization, Speech and Self-Affection in the Novels of William H. Gass
12:00 – 12:15 Discussion
12:15 – 12:35 Coffee Break
Session II.
Chair: András Kappanyos
12:35 – 12:55 Antal Bókay (University of Pécs):
Trauma and Trauma Narration in the Novels of Lewis Carroll
12:55 – 13:15 Laura Turai (Pázmány Péter Catholic University):
The Novel of a Dialogue
13:15 – 13:35 Eszter Korda (Veres Pálné High School, Budapest):
Hours, Years and Selves – by Virgina Woolf
13:35 – 13:50 Judit Mudriczki (University of Pannonia, Veszprém):
Appealing Experiments on Narration and Translation in
Noémi Szécsi’s The Finno-Ugrian Vampire
13:50 – 14:10 Discussion
14:10 – 15:20 Lunch
Session III.
Chair: Antal Bókay
15:20 – 15:40 Tamás Bényei (University of Debrecen):
Viewing England: Perspective, Landscape, Nation
15:40 – 16:00 Éva Bús (University of Pannonia, Veszprém):
Tom Jones as Fielding’s Commentary on the Shaping of the English Novel
16:00 – 16:20 Yuliia Terentieva (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
Campus as a Non-Place in the Small World by David Lodge
16:20 – 16:40 Dávid Levente Palatinus (University of Ruzomberok):
Narratives of the Anthropocene in a Time of Converging Media
16:40 – 17:00 Discussion
17:00 – 18.30 Madame B (feature film, 2014, based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert, directed by Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker)
19:00 Dinner
Saturday 12th May – Sophianum, Room 112.
Keynote Lecture
Chair: János Szávai
9:00 – 9:50 Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam):
Emma is Us: Focalisation as Political Tool
9:50 – 10:10 Discussion
10:10 – 10:30 Coffee Break
Session IV.
Chair: Tamás Bényei
10:30 – 10:50 János Szávai (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
Dream-narratives in the Novel
10:50 – 11:10 Péter Hajdu (University of Pécs):
Description of Customs and Rituals
11:10 – 11.30 Tibor Gintli (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
Speed in Narrative
11:30 – 11:50 László Bengi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
Narrative vs. Descriptive Integration: A Phenomenological Approach to the
Narrative Temporality of Descriptions
11:50 – 12:10 Discussion
12:10 – 12:30 Coffee Break
Session V.
Chair: Péter Hajdu
12:30 – 12:50 Angelika Reichmann (Eszterházy Károly University, Eger):
Visions of the Aging Artist: Modernist Intertexts in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace(1999)
12:50 – 13:10 Dorottya Szávai (University of Pannonia, Veszprém):
Forms of Silence and Signs of the Lack in Imre Kertész’s Novels
13:10 – 13:30 Noémi Albert (University of Pécs):
“Like People in a Book” Jack and a Modern-Day Captivity Narrative
13:30 – 13:50 Discussion
14:00 – 15:30 Lunch
Session VI.
Chair: Angelika Reichmann
15:30 – 15:50 Gábor Kovács (University of Pannonia, Veszprém):
The Problem of Counterpart and Narrative Parallelism in Prose Language
15:50 – 16:10 Kornélia Horváth (Pázmány Péter Catholic University):
Three Central European Writers on the Novel (Kundera, Hamvas, Ottlik)
16:10 – 16:30 Mihály Benda (Hungarian Academy of Sciences):
The Perception and Representation of Paris in Modern Fiction in The Huns in Paris by Gyula Illyés, The Rain in Paris by András Hevesi and The Street of the Fishing Catby Jolán Földes
16:30 – 16:50 Nikolett Sipos (University of Pannonia, Veszprém):
The Question of Discourse in A Game of Thrones
16:50 – 17:10 Discussion
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There is no conference fee.
We plan to publish selected papers from the conference in book form.
For further information, please contact
Dr. Kornélia Horváth
Associate Professor
Dr. Sarolta Osztroluczky
Associate Lecturer
s.osztroluczky@gmail.com
