French Graduate Seminar

Hilary 2018

5.15pm-6.30pm, The Hovenden Room, All Soul’s College

Week 2 (Tuesday 23^rd January)

Amy Steinepreis (Merton) –  Finitude of the Corp(u)s and the Aporia of Touch in Beckett’s ‘Trilogy’ (1951-53)

Fay Wanrug Suwanwattana (Merton) – Reinventing Alternative Modern Masculinity Through Indigenous Androgyny in Fin de siècle French Colonial Literature

Week 4 (Tuesday 6^th February)

Louise Ferris (Magdalen) - To Infinity and Beyond: Time and Involuntary Memory in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27)

Béatrice Rea (Lady Margaret Hall) – “Je m’ai fait mal quand j’ai tombé”: A Real- and Apparent-time Study of Auxiliary Alternation in Intransitive and Pronominal Verbs in Spoken Montréal French (1971-2016)

Week 6 (Tuesday 20^th February)

Jonas Kurscheidt (Université François-Rabelais) - The Parisian editions (1498-1530) of the Ship of Fools (1494) by Sebastian Brant

Madeleine Chalmers (Trinity) – Alfred Jarry’s 'pataphysique: A Science for the Humanities?