The Conference ‘Literature and Interarts’ purports to be a study forum on the interrelations among the arts and media, crucial to the interdisplinary field studies of our globalized reality. Since the thematic kernel is prompted by the Modern Philologies Department at the University of La Rioja, the common axis of analysis will be literature, in convergence with a varied range of other arts and media -paintings, book illustration, film texts, music, photography, and theatre, are among the intertexts. Different approaches will incorporate issues related to field boundaries, modes and functions of conversion, and praxis of specific texts.
Conference sessions will follow a chronological logic from the Renaissance to the 21st century, and all of the lectures are delivered by specialists in the comparative field studies who teach at different universities worldwide.
David Fishelov, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explores the biblical character of Delilah and its conversions to painting -(Rubens, Rembrandt¿), film (Cecil B. DeMille), and music (Saint Saëns & Tom Jones).
Inmaculada Medina Barco, from the University of La Rioja, analyses new modes of pictorial an musical ekphrasis in the contemporary tale world -with texts by Seán Virgo, which incorporate paintings by Vermeer, Caravaggio, and Edvard Munch, and music of Victorian England.
Elizabeth Drayson, from Cambridge University, analyses a so far unattended painting by Goya which displays a scene of El Lazarillo de Tormes, and a film version of the book by Fernando Fernán Gómez.
Silvia Ammari, from the University of John Cabot in Rome, focuses on the influence of Italian futurism on the experimental poetry of the writer and artist E.E. Cummings.
After that lecture, Stephen Butler, from the University Politechnika Koszalinska, studies the presence of Irish painting in contemporary Irish fiction -in particular, in the works of novelists John Banville and Ciaran Carson. Mª Jesús Hernáez Lerena, from the University of La Rioja, analyses the transfer of artistic Hyperrealism to the ethical and literary aesthetics of Canadian writer Lisa Moore.
The closure to sessions comes with a lecture by Lesley D. Clement, from the University of Lakehead in Canada, who theorizes on the visual imagination and book illustration within the context of Postmodern children´s picture books.
The conference is also honoured with the presence of writer and playwright Lawrence Jeffery, who will be with us on this special occasion to highlight issues concerning cultural convergence, translation, and interpretation.
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INSCRIPCIÓN
Universidad de La Rioja
Secretaría de Filologías Modernas
C/ San José de Calasanz, s/n
Tfno.: 00 34 941 299 433
