title: Ireland, Modernism and the fin de siècle
type of event: conference
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location:		 University of Limerick & MICL
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city: Limerick
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country (in English): Republic of Ireland
start date: 16/04/2010
end date: 17/04/2010
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Ireland, Modernism & the fin de siècle
University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College Limerick

16th & 17th April 2010
Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Lyn Pykett, University of Aberystwyth
Prof. Adrian Frazier, NUI Galway
Prof. Joseph Bristow, UCLA

In the past fifteen years a lively and growing dynamic has emerged in Irish scholarship which has broadened critical discourse beyond previous somewhat static literary-historical categories, deploying postcolonial, feminist and queer approaches to Irish literature and culture. This troubling of the canon enables us to find new ways of reading canonical work, and to address forms and writers hitherto neglected. This symposium on Ireland, Modernism and the fin de siècle aims to explore one such area, by interrogating the connections and potential incompatibilities between formal and textual experimentation in the work of Irish writers at the fin de siècle, and the subsequent emergence and transnational reach of literary modernism.

Further information about the symposium may be found at: www.ul.ie/findesiecle

Organisers:
Dr. Kathryn Laing, Mary Immaculate College Limerick & Dr. Tina O’Toole, University of Limerick


DRAFT PROGRAMME


Fri 16th April

1.00 Registration: Summerville, Mary Immaculate College Limerick

2.00 Panel 1
Conor Montague. Anatole le Braz and the Irish Revival.
Clare Gill. Taking out the Trash: Belfast’s Free Public Library and the fin de siècle Doctrine of Improvement.
Aoife Leahy. Fin de siècle Dialogue in George Moore’s “Mildred Lawson”.

3.30 Break

4.00 Panel 2
Yvonne Ivory. Beyond Salomé: Oscar Wilde’s Afterlife in Modernist German Opera.
Maeve Tynan. The Gaelic Gothic: Degeneracy and Diffusion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Eibhear Walshe. Queering Oscar: Versions of Wilde in Modern Ireland.
Ed Madden. Tabhair Dom do Lámh? Austin Clarke’s Washroom Encounter.

6.00 Plenary: Prof. Lyn Pykett

Sat 17th April

9.00 Registration: Summerville, Mary Immaculate College Limerick

9.30 Panel 3
Maureen O’Connor. Inhuman Voices Wake Us: Animals and the Mythical Method in Irish New Woman Writing.
Susan Cahill. Landscapes of Girlhood: The Girls' Fiction of L.T. Meade and Rosa Mulholland
Beth Rodgers “She Talks Ireland”: Irishness, Authorship and the Wild Irish Girls of L.T. Meade.
Kathryn Laing & Faith Binckes. The Inconsistencies and Surprises of Sympathy: Hannah Lynch, Gender, Genre and Politics at the fin de siècle.

11.30 Break

12.00 Panel 4
Heidi Hansson. Emily Lawless and fin de siècle Literature as a Temporal Category.
Tina O’Toole. Cross-Lines: Egerton, Moore, Joyce.
Elke D’hoker. Somerville & Ross and the Modern Irish Short Story.

1.30 Lunch

2.30 Plenary: Prof. Adrian Frazier

3.30 Break

4.00 Panel 5
Alex Davis. Learning to be Brutal: Synge, Linguistics, Decadence.
Bruce Stewart. “The Curve of An Emotion”: fin de siècle Metaphysics in Wilde, Yeats and Joyce.
Hedwig Schwall. Towards a New Definition of the ‘New Woman’? Rereading Yeats’s Ideas of the Individual on the Basis of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

5.30 Plenary: Prof. Joseph Bristow
6.30 fin

8.30 Conference Dinner [optional]





Dr. Tina O’Toole
Lecturer in English
School of Languages, Literature, Culture & Communication
University of Limerick
Ireland
Tel: +353-(0)61-234269
http://www.ul.ie/llcc/tina-otoole/
URL: www.ul.ie/findesiecle