AIZEN Conferences

11th International Conference
Emile Zola and Naturalism
8th International Film Festival

Hosted by:

Universidad de Jaén
Departamento de lenguas y culturas mediterráneas
June 13-15, 2002, Jaén, Spain

Organizers:

Organizer-in-chief: Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada)
Co-organizer: Encarnación Medina Arjona (Universidad de Jaén, España)
AIZEN Organizers: Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (University of Lethbridge, Canada),
Robert Singer (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY,USA)

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

8:00-9:00 AM REGISTRATION,
Campus Las Lagunillas, Bldg D1 "Edificio Zabaleta"

9:00-9:30 AM OPENING SPEECHES,
Bldg D1 "Edificio Zabaleta", Room "Sala de Grados"

Encarnación Medina Arjona, Professor, Depto. de lenguas y culturas mediterráneas, Universidad de Jaén

Luis Parras Guijosa, Rector of the Universidad de Jaén

Felipe López, President of the Diputación Provincial de Jaén

Robert Singer, Vice-President of the AIZEN

Anna Gural-Migdal, President of the AIZEN

9:30-9:45 AM, BREAK

SECTION A

9:45-11:45 AM, Room "Sala de Grados"

From Pre-Text to Zolian Text/ De l'avant-texte au texte zolien
President: Kelly Benoudis Basilio

Lidia Anoll Vendrell (Universidad de Barcelona, España): "Les arrières-fonds de l'œuvre zolienne à travers sa correspondance (1877-1880): le cas d'Une Page d'amour"

Marjolein van Tooren (University of Amsterdam-Vrije, The Netherlands): "Un soap du XIXème siècle. Techniques narratives et persuasives programmant Les Mystères de Marseille"

Mercedes Boixareu Vilaplana (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España ): "Les préfaces des romans de Zola"

Marie-Sophie Armstrong (Lehigh University, USA): "Les figures de voleurs/scripteurs dans 'Le roman des origines'"

11:45 AM-12:00 PM, BREAK

SECTION B

12:00-1:00 PM, Room "Sala de Grados"

Theater and Naturalism/ Théâtre et naturalisme
President: Alain Pagès

From left: Yves Chevrel and Halina Suwala

Guest Speaker: Yves Chevrel (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, France): "Zola et le renouveau de l'art dramatique en Europe à la fin du XIXème siècle"

1:00-2:30 PM Opening Cocktail offered by the Faculdad de Humanidades and the Secretariado de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Jaén

SECTION C

2:30-4:00 PM, Room "Sala de Grados"

The Feminine in the French Naturalist Novel/ Le féminin dans le roman naturaliste français
President: Anna Gural-Migdal

Colette Becker (Université de Paris X-Nanterre, France): "L'expression du désir féminin chez Zola"

Danielle Bishop (The University of Plymouth, England): "The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery as a Destabilising Force in Le Rêve"

Domenica De Falco (Université de Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle, France): "Femmes goncourtiennes"

From left: Domenica De Falco, Colette Becker, Anna Gural-Migdal, and Danielle Bishop

4:00-4:15 PM, BREAK

SECTION D

4:15-6:15 PM, Room "Sala de Grados"

Hispanic Naturalism/ Le naturalisme hispanique
President: José Antonio Ramos

Oswaldo Voysest (Beloit College, USA): "El conspirador de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera: melodrama y naturalismo en la literatura peruana"

Soledad Traverso (Penn State University, Erie, USA): "El observador fisiológico en Aves sin nido de Clorinda Matto de Turner"

Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante (Oakland University, USA): "Can the Subaltern Really Speak? Male Writers, 'Female Voices,' and the Limits of Argentine Naturalism"

Manuel Prendes Guardiola (Universidad de Granada, España): "El personaje y sus libros: la crítica literaria en la novela naturalista hispanoamericana"

Naturalist Film Festival

6:30-7:15 PM, Sala de Grados

Un Chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929, France/Spain; 45 min., silent/muet)
Made in collaboration with Salvador Dali, this early film by Buñuel anticipates his later style in its exaltation of erotic desire. The oniric imagery of this classic, including severed hands and rotting donkeys, creates a poetic illusion of reality that has no equal in film history.

8:15 PM, Reception and Guided Tour offered by Jaén City Hall

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

SECTION E

9:45-11:45 AM, Bldg D1 "Edificio Zabaleta", Room "Sala de Juntas"

The Influence of Zola and Naturalism on Spanish Writers/ Influence de Zola et du naturalisme sur les écrivains espagnols
Presidents: Mercedes Boixareu Vilaplana and Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante

Adolfo Sotelo Vázquez (Universidad de Barcelona, España): "Emile Zola y Leopoldo Alas: aspectos de la novela"

Margot Versteeg (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands): "Emilio Bobadilla, Fray Candil (1862-1921), Naturalista"

Ricardo Krauel (Princeton University, USA): "Naturalismo, cientificismo y sexualidad: el discurso de la neurastenia en Sí sé por qué de Felipe Trigo"

José Antonio Ramos (Boston College, USA): "Surrealist and Naturalist Schizophrenia: Federico García Lorca's Poet in New York"

SECTION F

2:30-4:00 PM, Room "Sala de Juntas"

Special Panel: Les Trois Villes
President: Yves Chevrel

Michel Berta (North Carolina School of the Arts, University of North Carolina, USA): "Rome et l'esthétique baroque"

Mario Petrone (University of Naples, Italy): "Rome des Trois Villes dans l'imaginaire zolien"

Giovanna Romano (University of Naples, Italy): "Une fresque zolienne: Paris dans Les Trois Villes"

4:00-4:15 PM, BREAK

AIZEN Conference 2002

SECTION G

4:15-6:15 PM, Room "Sala de Juntas"

The Reception and Diffusion of Zola's Ideas in Europe/ Réception et diffusion des idées de Zola en Europe
Presidents: Simone Saillard and Javier Torre Aguado

Nelly Sanchez (Université de Bordeaux III-Michel de Montaigne, France): "'Le cas Zola,' par Georges de Peyrebrune. Un plaidoyer dans Le Réveil Périgourdin"

Ana Clara Viegas dos Santos (University of Algarve, Portugal): "Réception et diffusion du Naturalisme au théâtre: la présence d'Emile Zola au Portugal"

Reinaldo Silva (University of Aveiro, Portugal): "Gloucester's Portuguese-American Fishermen Under British Eyes: Social Darwinism, Race, and the Discourse of Empire in Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous"

María de los Àngeles Perea Carpio (Universidad de Jaén, España): "La imagen como signo en la revista española Germinal"

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

SECTION H

8:30-10:00 AM, Room "Sala de Grados"

Utopia and Dystopia in Zola and Naturalist Fiction/Utopie et dystopie chez Zola et dans la fiction naturaliste
President: Marie-Sophie Armstrong

Göran Blix (Columbia University, USA): "Property and Propriety in the Second Empire: Zola's Pot-Bouille"

Francis Lacoste (Université de Bordeaux III-Michel de Montaigne, France): "Zola et l'éducation"

Wojciech Tomasik (Casimir the Great Academy of Bydgoszcz, Poland): "La Bête humaine 'à la polonaise': The Origins of Railway Motifs in Reymont's Work"

10:00-10:15 AM, BREAK

SECTION I

10:15 AM-12:15 PM, Room "Sala de Grados"

New Critical and Aesthetic Approaches to Zola's Text/Nouvelles approches critiques et esthétiques du texte zolien
Presidents: Halina Suwala and Dolores Bermúdez

Bernadette Lintz (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA): "L'empereur fardé: Napoléon III des Châtiments à La Débâcle"

Kelly Benoudis Basilio (University of Lisbon, Portugal): "Zola: la lutte contre l'ange. La légitimation intertextuelle du Rêve"

Eva Erdmann (University of Erfurt, Germany): "L'Art du naturalisme. La poétologie mimétique chez Zola"

David Lagunas Arias (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico): "Emile Zola y la(s) metodología(s) antropológica(s): algunas coincidencias y paralelismos"

SECTION J

12:15-1:15 PM, Room "Sala de Grados"

The Rougon-Macquart/ Les Rougon-Macquart
President: Colette Becker

From left: Danielle Coussot and Françoise Gaillard

Guest Speaker: Françoise Gaillard (Université de Paris VII-Denis Diderot, France):
"Zola, le oui à la vie: de la Bête humaine au Docteur Pascal"

1:15-2:45 PM, LUNCH

SECTION K

2:45-4:15 PM, Room "Sala de Grados"

The One-Hundredth Anniversary of Zola's Death/ Le centenaire de la mort de Zola
President: Marta Giné Janer

From left: Danielle Coussot, Alain Pagès, Marta Giné Janer, Francisco Lafarga Maduell

Alain Pagès (Université de Reims, France): "Le crime de Coupeau: à propos de la mort d'Emile Zola"

Francisco Lafarga Maduell (Universidad de Barcelona, España): "Octubre de 1902: la muerte de Zola en la prensa de Barcelona"

Danielle Coussot (Centre de Recherches sur Zola et le Naturalisme, France): "'Zola forever' -L'actualité de Zola au début du XXIème siècle"

4:15-4:30 PM, Break

SECTION L

4:30-6:00 PM, Room "Sala de Grados"

Ancient Greece in Naturalist Fiction/ La Grèce antique dans la fiction naturaliste
Presidents: Bernadette Lintz and Diane M. Smith

Mihaela Marin (Ohio State University, USA): "Zola et le spectacle grec: les masques de la nostalgie naturaliste"

Marc Lony (Loyola Marymount University, USA): "Ouvrir la bête"

Kim Sang-Koo (Pusan National University, South Korea): "Menippean Satiric Mode and Fictional Characteristics of Literary Naturalism"

From left: Kim Sang-Koo and Anna Gural-Migdal

SECTION M

6:00-7:30 PM, Room "Sala de Grados"

Naturalism Around the World/ Le naturalisme à travers le monde
President: Chantal Morel

Ligia Vassallo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): "O Cortiço de Aluisio Azevedo: roman naturaliste brésilien du travail et des transformations de la ville"

Riikka Rossi (University of Helsinki, Finland): "Le naturalisme en Finlande"

Efstratia Oktapoda-Lu (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, France): "Le naturalisme néo-hellénique: influences et rapports avec le naturalisme français. Esquisses d'un mouvement littéraire"

9:00 PM-12: 00 AM, Naturalist Dinner, Parador Hotel, Castillo de Santa Catalina, Room "Sala Condestable"

Special Presentation: "Portrait de Jeanne Rozerot d'après les souvenirs de son fils Jacques et un choix de lettres inédites de Zola"
President: Angels Santa Bañeres

Dr. Brigitte Émile-Zola

Guest Speaker: Brigitte Emile-Zola, M.D., (Collection privée Brigitte Emile-Zola, France)

Presentation of the Schor/Cahm Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

SECTION N

8:30-10:00 AM, Room "Sala de Juntas"

About Maupassant/ A propos de Maupassant
President: Michel Berta

Holly N. Haahr (Yeshiva University, USA): "Miss Harriet, Idylle et L'Aveu: la structure interne de Guy de Maupassant d'Isaac Babel"

Sayeeda Mamoon (Edgewood College, USA): "The Self and the Other/The Other Self: Negotiating Alterity in Maupassant's Fiction"

Halina Suwala (University of Warsaw, Poland): "Maupassant ou 'la nostalgie du siècle précédent'"

10:00-10:15 AM, BREAK

SECTION O

10:15 AM-12:15 PM, Room "Sala de Juntas"

Spanish Naturalism/Le naturalisme espagnol
President: Ricardo Krauel

Jeffrey Oxford (University of North Texas, USA): "Blasco Ibáñez and his Literature of Social Protest"

Javier Torre Aguado (University of Denver, USA): "Las disyuntivas de Mariano: apostillas al naturalismo de La desheredada de Benito Péres Galdós"

Erika Sutherland (Muhlenberg College, USA): "Death in the Bedroom: Eduardo López Bago and his Fuzzy Forensics"

Susan Walter (University of Denver, USA): "The Intersections and Divergences of Naturalism and Feminism in Emilia Pardo Bazán's Los pazos de Ulloa and La madre naturaleza"

SECTION P

2:45-4:15 PM, Room "Sala de Juntas"

Naturalist Themes and Motifs/Thèmes et motifs naturalistes
Presidents: Yvan Lissorgues and Adolfo Sotelo Vázquez

Jean-Louis Guereña (Université François Rabelais, France): "La prostitución, un tema literario para el naturalismo español"

Isabel Veloso Santamaría (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España): "Le rôle de la religion dans Les Rougon-Macquart"

Víctor Daniel Domínguez Lucena (Universidad de Alicante, España): "Función ficcional de la Guerra franco-prusiana en La Débâcle"

4:15-4:30 PM, BREAK

SECTION Q

4:30-6:00 PM, Room "Sala de Juntas"

The Dreyfus Affair in Europe/L'affaire Dreyfus en Europe
President: Jean-Louis Guereña

Marta Giné Janer (Universidad de Lleida, España): "Prolegómenos a 'J'accuse'/'Je m'accuse': Emile Zola en el 'Journal' (Le Mendiant ingrat) y en 'Les Funérailles du Naturalisme' de Léon Bloy"

Marie-Christine Kok Escalle (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands): "La réception du Zola de l'affaire Dreyfus aux Pays-Bas"

María Herrada Ricart (Universidad de Jaén, España): "El poder del genio: el caso Dreyfus llevado a la escena española"

From left: Michel Berta and Marie-Christine Kok Escalle

SECTION R

6:00-7:30 PM, Room "Sala de Juntas"

Special Panel: Une Page d'amour
President: Mihaela Marin

Angels Santa Bañeres (Universidad de Lleida, España): "Une Page d'amour, roman populaire et/ou sentimental"

Dolores Bermúdez Medina (Universidad de Cádiz, España): "Un ronflement lointain: Paris dans Une Page d'amour"

Scott Sprenger (Brigham Young University, USA): "Zola's Fantastic Naturalism: The Case of Une Page d'Amour"

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

SECTION S

8:30-10:30 AM, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Room "Capilla"

Naturalism and the Representation of Animal Instincts/ Naturalisme et représentation de l'instinct animal
President: Margot Versteeg

Nieves Pascual Soler (Universidad de Jaén, España): "Morals and Bodies in Zola's Nana"

Giampiero Posani (University of Naples, Italy): "Croupes naturalistes, croupes décadentes"

Marisa Pérez-Bernardo (Catholic University of America, USA): "The Animalization of Blasco Ibáñez' La barraca"

Cristina Sánchez-Conejero (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA): "De Buñuel a Alejandro González Inárritu: Lo perro en Un perro andaluz y en Amores perros"

10:30-10:45 AM, BREAK

SECTION T

10:45 AM-12:45 PM, Room "Capilla"

American Naturalism/Le naturalisme américain
President: Isabelle Schaffner

From left: Jeanne Campbell Reesman and Isabelle Schaffner

Jeanne Campbell Reesman (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA): "Re-Visiting Adventure: Jack London in the Solomon Islands"

Debbie L. López (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA): "'Invisible Anthropophagi' and 'Asymmetrical Conclusions' in London's Naturalist Tale, 'The Red One'"

Chester Wolford (Penn State University, Erie, USA): "James Dickey, Stephen Crane: A Deterministic Influence on a Modern American Romantic"

Diane M. Smith (State University of New York, Farmingdale, USA) and Robert Singer (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA): "Striking Silents: Narrative Origins of the American Coal Mining Film"

12:45-2:00 PM, Lunch offered by the Diputación Provincial de Jaén, Restaurante de l'Hospital San Juan de Dios

SECTION U

2:00-3:30 PM, Room "Capilla"

The Artist in the Fin-de-Siècle Novel/L'artiste dans le roman fin de siècle
President: Françoise Gaillard

Isabelle Schaffner (The American University of Paris, France): "Le Mythe de l'Artiste à Paris chez Zola"

Montserrat Parra I Albá (Universidad de Lleida, España): "La vision de l'artiste dans L'Oeuvre de Zola et Le Crépuscule de Georges Ohnet"

Dominique Laporte (University of Manitoba, Canada): "Les discours sur l'hystérique et l'artiste juif dans La Femme-enfant (1891) de Catulle Mendès: de l'expérience naturaliste à la récupération idéologique"

3:30-3:45 PM, BREAK

SECTION V

3:45-5:15 PM, Room "Capilla"

Special Panel: Thérèse Raquin
President: Nieves Pascual Soler

Chantal Morel (Institut Français de Londres, England): "From London to Punjab: Thérèse Raquin Revisited"

Robert. S. April

Robert S. April (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA): "The First Report of Locked-In Syndrome, a Special Kind of Neurological Stroke, Reported in Madame Raquin"

María Carmen Figuerola (Universidad de Lleida, España): "Cuestiones de hospitalidad en Thérèse Raquin"

5:15-6:15 PM Guided Tour of Arab Baths

Naturalist Film Festival

7:00-9:35 PM, Antigua Escuela de Magisterio

Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000, Mexico, 155 min.; in Spanish with English subtitles) This complex drama brings three lives into collision following a terrible car accident. Love, politics, sex, violence, jealousy, and dogs make this a fascinating film.

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

SECTION W

8:30-10:30 AM, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Room "San Vicente 2"

The Reception of French Naturalist Writers in Spain/ Réception des écrivains naturalistes français en Espagne
President: Francisco Lafarga Maduell

Flavia Aragón Ronsano (Universidad de Cádiz, España): "Emilia Pardo Bazán et les frères Goncourt: une fusion poético-réaliste"

Simone Saillard (Université de Lyon II-Lumière, France): "1887-1888: traduction et réception de La Terre en Espagne"

Yvan Lissorgues (Université de Toulouse II-le Mirail, France): "Leopoldo Alas, Clarín, crítico de Emile Zola"

Pilar Vega Rodriguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España): "Zola y la critica del naturalismo: la vision de Cánovas del Castillo"

10:30-10:45 AM, BREAK

SECTION X

10:45 AM-12:45 PM, Room "San Vicente 2"

Zola's Literary Contemporaries/Ecrivains contemporains de Zola
President: Lidia Anoll Vendrell

From left: Francisco Lafarga, Angels Santa, Lidia Anoll

Sandrine Harismendy-Lony (University of Southern California, USA): "'Lorsque Vénus rôde le soir'...Nina de Villard, Nana et le mythe de la femme fatale"

Wafa Abid (Université de Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle, France): "Les enjeux du prosaïsme et les influences de Zola dans la poésie naturaliste de François Coppée"

Agnes Hafez-Ergaut (University of Tasmania, Australia): "Florilège huysmansien"

Marina García Romero (Universidad de Cádiz, España): "La novela de Georges Darien"

From left: Agnes Hafez-Ergaut and her husband, Isabelle Schaffner, Marc Lony, and Sandrine Harismendy-Lony

SECTION Y

2:00-3:30 PM, Room "San Vicente 2"

Film Adaptations of Zola's Novels/Adaptations filmiques des romans de Zola
President: Robert Singer

Russell Cousins (The University of Birmingham, England): "Antoine's Version of La Terre: An Experiment in Naturalist Cinema"

Gilbert Darbouze (Bloomsburg University, USA): "Le rêve et la sordide réalité dans le film Gervaise d'après L'Assommoir de Zola"

Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch (Angelo State University, USA): "The Female Reader in the Novel Pot-Bouille (1882) and her Representation in the Film Adaptation by Duvivier (1957)"

3:30-3:45 PM, BREAK

SECTION Z

3:45-5:15 PM, Room "San Vicente 2"

Naturalism and Zola in Germany/ Le naturalisme et Zola en Allemagne
President: Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt

From left: Arturo Larcati and Göran Blix

Arturo Larcati (University of Salzburg, Austria): "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: les lithographies dédiées à La Bête humaine"

Ruth Schürch-Halas (University of Calgary, Canada): "Mutisme et hurlements: le langage ouvrier chez Zola et Hauptmann"

Sigfrid Hoefert (University of Waterloo, Canada): German Naturalist Drama in Film: The Case of Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber and Der Biberpelz"

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