Program
THURSDAY
9:30: Welcoming Part

17th Century: Early Modern Phenomena & Contradictions
9:40-10h: Yves Mayzaud (Duisburg-Essen): Narrative Coherence and Discoherence in the Seventeenth-Century French Miscellany
+ Discussion 15min.
10:15h-10:35: Julia Brühne (Bremen): Between Irony, Innovation, and Ambiguity: The Aesthetic Wonderland of Perrault’s Fairytales
+ Discussion 15min.

10:50-11:10h: COFFEE BREAK

Late 19th Century to Post-War Period: Form Searching, Mind Puzzles, Hybridity
11:10-11:30: Ivana Bogdanović (Mannheim): “diaboli! Furtz”– Traces of Humor in Post-Narrative Nietzsche
+ Discussion 15min.
11:45-12:05h: Jan Jokisch (Frankfurt): The Horror of Genre Uncertainty in Richard Weiner’s The Empty Chair.
+ Discussion 15min.
12:20-12:40h: Hauke Kuhlmann (Bremen): Barbed wire and sonnets: The anthology „Deine Söhne, Europa. Gedichte Deutscher Kriegsgefangener“ (1947)
+ Discussion 15min.

13:00h- 14:30h: LUNCH BREAK

20th Century: Auto Referentiality, Metalepsis and Paradoxes
14:30-14:50h: Daria Baryshnikova (Bochum): Recording Dissonance: Narrative Disruption and Postcolonial Hybridity in Brion Gysin’s The Process
+ Discussion 15min.
15:05-15:25h: Gabriella Campos Mendes (Coimbra): Narrating the Now: Simultaneous Narration as Chronological Disruption
+ Discussion 15min.

15:40-16:00h: COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:00h: EVENING: KEY NOTE Carlos Reis (Coimbra): Narrative boundaries. Knowledge, transgression, diversity.

FRIDAY
9:30: Welcoming Part
20th & 21st Century: Latin American Phenomena & Specific Forms of Narrative Fiction
9:40-10h: Sabine Schlickers (Bremen): Paradoxical devices in literary and filmic texts
+ Discussion 15min.
10:15-10:35h: Gabriel Alejandro García Fontalvo: Narrative contradiction and the aesthetics of banality in the fiction of Damián Tabarovsky
+ Discussion 15min.

11:00-11:15h: COFFEE BREAK

20th & 21st Century: Intermediality and Shape Shifting
11:15-11:35h: Gisela Febel (Bremen): Contradictory Signs in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Ciné-roman and Film La belle captive (1975/1983)
+ Discussion 15min.
11:50-12:10h: Arianna Grossi (Leipzig): Literary experimentation and intermediality in G. Manganelli
+ Discussion 15min.

12:25-12:40h: COFFEE BREAK

12:40-12:55h: Teresa Cordero Villar (Bremen): Looking at Me Looking at You: Narrative Contradictions and Serial Disruptions in Fleabag (2016+2019)
+ Discussion 15min.

13h10: Final Discussion