DELC Research Seminar Series: Patrick O'Donovan In brief Guest Speaker - Professor Patrick O'Donovan (University College Cork) Title - Architects of Modernism: The Case of Proust Organiser - Marion Schmid (French and Francophone Studies, University of Edinburgh) Location - 50 George Square (in person) Register on Eventbrite Architects of Modernism: The Case of Proust by Patrick O'Donovan Architecture is a model for modernist fiction, notably so in the work of Marcel Proust and of Virginia Woolf. Architecture is first of all a prototype for each writer’s work: architectural models are invoked as sources of far-reaching literary experiments. But architecture also forms a good deal of the substance of each writer’s work. Each is concerned with the writer’s own space and what it represents, and then in turn with the forces that shaped the environments in which they wrote and on which they drew in elaborating their fictional worlds, spaces that testify to rapid urban growth, the rise of the railways and of tourism, innovative and sometimes disruptive forms of modern urban design, increased social stratification, elite sociability, the character of the city as a work of art. These strands will form the focus of the paper, in which, by way of a modest centenary tribute, I will also address some transformations of longer-term traditions in the relation between architecture and literature at Proust’s hands. About the guest speaker Patrick O'Donovan is Professor of French in University College Cork. He studied in Ireland, France and the UK, where he worked for a number of years, up the coast in Dundee and latterly in Cambridge. He is a former editor of the journal French Studies. He has published widely on literature and ideas since 1789, latterly on the poetry of Vigny, on the tradition of the personal novel in France, and on Certeau. His paper for this seminar draws on a current project dedicated to Proust’s ‘house of fiction’, on which he has also recently published. About the seminar series The DELC Research Seminar Series (DRSS) encourages collaboration and coproduction between staff and students across European Languages and Cultures and beyond. Entry is free and everyone is welcome. Please register on Eventbrite. Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about studying with us Nov 09 2022 17.15 - 18.15 DELC Research Seminar Series: Patrick O'Donovan Join us in person for this year's first DRSS seminar by Professor Patrick O'Donovan (University College Cork) on the relation between architecture and literature in modernist fiction. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Edinburgh Register for this event on Eventbrite
DELC Research Seminar Series: Patrick O'Donovan In brief Guest Speaker - Professor Patrick O'Donovan (University College Cork) Title - Architects of Modernism: The Case of Proust Organiser - Marion Schmid (French and Francophone Studies, University of Edinburgh) Location - 50 George Square (in person) Register on Eventbrite Architects of Modernism: The Case of Proust by Patrick O'Donovan Architecture is a model for modernist fiction, notably so in the work of Marcel Proust and of Virginia Woolf. Architecture is first of all a prototype for each writer’s work: architectural models are invoked as sources of far-reaching literary experiments. But architecture also forms a good deal of the substance of each writer’s work. Each is concerned with the writer’s own space and what it represents, and then in turn with the forces that shaped the environments in which they wrote and on which they drew in elaborating their fictional worlds, spaces that testify to rapid urban growth, the rise of the railways and of tourism, innovative and sometimes disruptive forms of modern urban design, increased social stratification, elite sociability, the character of the city as a work of art. These strands will form the focus of the paper, in which, by way of a modest centenary tribute, I will also address some transformations of longer-term traditions in the relation between architecture and literature at Proust’s hands. About the guest speaker Patrick O'Donovan is Professor of French in University College Cork. He studied in Ireland, France and the UK, where he worked for a number of years, up the coast in Dundee and latterly in Cambridge. He is a former editor of the journal French Studies. He has published widely on literature and ideas since 1789, latterly on the poetry of Vigny, on the tradition of the personal novel in France, and on Certeau. His paper for this seminar draws on a current project dedicated to Proust’s ‘house of fiction’, on which he has also recently published. About the seminar series The DELC Research Seminar Series (DRSS) encourages collaboration and coproduction between staff and students across European Languages and Cultures and beyond. Entry is free and everyone is welcome. Please register on Eventbrite. Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about studying with us Nov 09 2022 17.15 - 18.15 DELC Research Seminar Series: Patrick O'Donovan Join us in person for this year's first DRSS seminar by Professor Patrick O'Donovan (University College Cork) on the relation between architecture and literature in modernist fiction. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Edinburgh Register for this event on Eventbrite
Nov 09 2022 17.15 - 18.15 DELC Research Seminar Series: Patrick O'Donovan Join us in person for this year's first DRSS seminar by Professor Patrick O'Donovan (University College Cork) on the relation between architecture and literature in modernist fiction.
