The proceedings of the conference have been published in EBC 39

Programme

// Friday 13 November // Room F08

  • 9.30 // Registration and Coffee
  • 10.00 // Catherine Lanone (Toulouse 2, Chair of the Société d’études anglaises contemporaines) // Opening remarks

Panel 1 // Poetic rhythm: history and theory
Chair // Paul Volsik

  • 10.15 // Lacy Rumsey (ENS LSH) // The limits of scansion
  • 10.55 // Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez (Vigo) // Folksong is not poetry: advocating for a non-modular view of text-setting
  • 11.35 // Andrew Eastman (Strasbourg) // Ideologies of English:  Anglo-Saxon, stress-clash, and twentieth-century conceptions of rhythm
  • 12.15 // Lunch

Panel 2 // Early twentieth-century rhythm
Chair // Catherine Lanone

  • 14.15 // Jason Hall (Exeter) // Mechanized Metrics: From Verse Science to Laboratory Prosody, 1880-1918
  • 14.55 // Laurence Estanove (Toulouse 2) // Rhythm in Thomas Hardy’s verse: « new continuities of meaning »
  • 15.35 // Break
  • 15.50 // Wim Van Mierlo (School of Advanced Studies, University of London) // Rhythmically Formed: Creative Poetics in the Manuscripts of some Early Twentieth-Century British Poets
  • 16.30 // Vita Zilburg (Freie U, Berlin) // T.S. Eliot and Paul Celan: Rhythm – Time – Poetics

// Saturday 14 November // Room F08
Panel 3 // Mid-century rhythm
Chair // Lacy Rumsey

  • 9.00 // David Nowell-Smith (Cambridge) // An experience with rhythm: W.S. Graham
  • 9.40 // Dominique Delmaire (Lyon 2) // Rhythm as spiritual pursuit in the poetry of George Mackay Brown
  • 10.20 // Coffee
  • 10.35 // Tomasz Wisniewski (Gdansk) // Rhythm, composition and semantics in R.S. Thomas’s « No », « Kneeling », and « Via Negativa »
  • 11.15 // David Kennedy (Hull) // Rhythm and Reader Identity in Philip Larkin and Keston Sutherland
  • 12.00 // Lunch

Keynote address

  • 13.30 // Derek Attridge // In Defence of the Dolnik
  • 14.30 // Break

Panel 4 // Late-century poetic rhythm in Britain and Ireland
Chair // Jason Hall

  • 14.45 // Franck Miroux (Paris 3) // Echoes, Interferences and Rhythms: Disruption and Continuity in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry
  • 15.25 // Martin Ryle (Sussex) // « I want you to tell me if grief, brought to numbers, cannot be so fierce »: stanzaic form, rhythm and play in Paul Muldoon’s long poems

16.05 // Claire Hélie (Paris 3) // « It’s my voice; that’s how I speak »: the rhythms of Northern English in Simon Armitage’s poetry