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II NN TT EE RR DD II SSVOL 9 NO 2 ISSN 1960-1816 INTERDISCIPLINARITÉ DANS LES ÉTUDES ANGLOPHONES WINTER 2015

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Letter from the Director 1

CR: BPTI 3 & 4 2

CFP : Projet « ReportAGES » 2–3

I?EA News Briefs 3

Rencontres des doctorants 4

CR : Colloque, Projet « Oralité » 4

CR : Seminar, “Literary Jounralismand the Spanish Civil War” 5

Members’ 2015 Activities 6–7

CR: Conference “Paris–London,1851–1900” 8

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By John S. Bak,Université de Lorraine

AA s we wind down the year and lookto welcome in 2016, IDEA will beentering into an important transi-

tion year. By March and then by June, itwill have to submit to the Université deLorraine its bilan of the past five yearsand its projet for the next five.

These past years have been veryfruitful in terms of scholarship and scien-tific activities, andIDEA membersshould be proudabout how far thecenter has comesince it was firstfounded ten yearsago. Each year,IDEA hosts or spon-sors about two or three international con-ferences, and on average its memberspublish between three and four mono-graphs or edited collections. Conferencepapers and published articles are regu-larly in the double digits.

IDEA has also been an activepartner within the PôleTELL, regularly apply-ing for publication sub-ventions, research pro-ject grants and confer-ence support funds.This past year, IDEAincreased its annualbudget by 50 percent with funds originat-ing from the Université de Lorraine, fromthe Lorraine Région and from other uni-versities. This extra funding allowed sev-eral members to travel more this pastyear to deliver papers or conductresearch.

Some of those funds went toorganizing IDEA’s Seminar Series thesepast few months, as well as a conferencehost by the Maison Française in Oxford.Others contributed to the successful con-

IDEA reflects upon is last five yearsand looks to prepare its next five.

ference organized by the “Oralité” pro-ject on macro- and micro-lingusiticanalyses.

IDEA has also been closelyinvolved with the Ecole Doctorale“Stanislas.” Each year, IDEA has had afirst-year doctoral student apply for acontrat doctoral, and its doctorants arefrequently involved in the school’s sci-entific projects, such as the annualJournée Jeunes Chercheurs. This pastNovember, Laura Davidel, a second-year PhD student, was selected amongthe school’s PhD students to accompa-ny the directrice to China to participatein a bilateral research project on“Aging.”

Heading into 2016 will requireIDEA and its members tobegin defining its futurefive-year contract. Inearly March, the directormust send to theUniversité de Lorraine itsreseach summary of thepast five years, and byJune the future director

will need to send a detailed report ofIDEA’s future projects.

The bilan will include executivesummaries in French and in English, aswell as SWOT analyses of IDEA’sresearch accomplishments, risks and

o p p o r t u n i t i e s .Individual assesse-ment reports will nolonger be required ofmembers this time, butmembers will need toinform the director oftheir personal bilansso that a collective pic-

ture of IDEA’s achievements can bemade known to the HCERES.

As my tenure as directorapproaches its end, IDEA will need toelect its new director (as well as andirecteur adjoint and Conseil), who willguide the research center through itsnext quinquennial contract beginning inJanuary 2018. I have asked interestedmembers to declare their candidacy forthese posts, which will have to be votedupon next January. §

Monica Latham,Nathalie Collé,

eds, BPTI 3:Contemporary

Textual Aesthetics(Nancy: PUN-

ÉditionsUniversitaires deLorraine, 2015)

Nathalie Collé,Monica Latham, eds,BPTI 4: From Text(s)to Book(s): Studies in

Production andEditorial Processes

(Nancy: PUN-Éditions

Universitaires deLorraine, 2015)

Elsa ChaaraniLesourd, CatherineDelesse, Laurence

Denooz, dirs.,Passeurs de cultureet transferts culturels

(Nancy : PUN-Éditions

Universitaires deLorraine, 2015)

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By John S. BakUniversité de Lorraine

CFP, Projet « ReportAGES » :

“Literary Journalism and LatinAmerica’s Wars: Revolutions,Retributions, Resignations,”13–14 June 2016, Oxford University

WW orking in partnership with various research cen-ters—Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (WolfsonCollege, Oxford University, UK), Medill School of

Journalism (Northwestern University, USA), ReSIC(Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), and theExperimental Media Lab (Academy of Fine Arts Saar,Germany)—the research group I.D.E.A. (“Théories et pra-tiques de l’interdisciplinarité dans les études anglophones”)is announcing a call for papers for the conference “LiteraryJournalism and Latin American Wars.” The conference willbe held at Wolfson College, Oxford University, from 13–14June 2016. The keynote speaker will be Argentinean jour-nalist and scholar Roberto Herrscher Rovira (Universitat deBarcelona), whose books Los viajes del Penélope (2007)and Periodismo narrativo (2012) show the importance liter-ary journalism has in the practice and history of LatinAmerican letters.

When Gabriel García Márquez died in April 2014,the world of letters lost one its most talented novelists andinfluential journalists of the 20th century. “Gabo,” who wasequally known for his “magicalrealism” as for his support ofthe Castro regime in Cuba,witnessed and recorded thepolitical and social unrest thatis frequently associated withthe development of SouthAmerica. Like Márquez, manyLatin American authors resort-ed to literary journalism tocapture their countries’ civilwars, revolutions or pogroms.Jorge Ibargüengoitia wroteabout the Mexican Revol-ution of 1910 in Los Relámpagos de Agosto (1964) andlater about the Mexican War of Independence in Los pasosde López (1981). In Operación Masacre, Rodolfo JorgeWalsh described the events following the RevoluciónLibertadora in Argentina in 1955. Biografía de un cimarrónby the Cuban author Miguel Barnet tells of the story of aCuban ex-slave of African descent that fought during theCuban War of Independence (1895–98). The book, pub-lished seven years after the Cuban Revolution ended in1966, is considered a watershed in the development ofLatin American literary journalism.

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BPTI 3 & 4: ContemporaryTextual Aesthetics & FromText(s) to Book(s): Studies inProduction and EditorialProcesses

By Nathalie Collé,Université de Lorraine

CC ontemporary Textual Aestheticsontemporary Textual Aesthetics exam-ines various contemporary authorial enterpris-es and editorial initiatives which invite us to

carefully consider ways in which texts are being fash-ioned. Authors and editors give birth to original types oftexts and books: innovative, unconventional or experi-mental novels, collaborative illustrated books, collec-tive artist’s books, hybrid or multimodal artefacts, andperformative, multimedia book-objects. The essays inthis volume explore a variety of texts as well as theirfrontiers and thresholds, and propose redefinitions ofthe book beyond the boundaries of the traditional codexformat and its inherent material ink-and-paper limitsand constraints. They offer a variety of examples ofcontemporary textual practices, and ground-breaking,thought-provoking book projects from many culturalperspectives and artistic backgrounds: France,Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Great Britain andthe United States of America.

FF rom Text(s) to Book(s): Studies in Productionand Editorial Processes

Working outward from the path traced byHubert Nyssen in Du texte au livre, les avatars du sens,the essays collected in this volume examine theprocess by which texts are embodied in forms that givethem the appearance of completion and finality. Thepassage from fluid, provisional textual states to theapparent solidity of the published book is explored inthe light of recent developments in textual scholarship.By engaging with archival records, with questions spe-cific to periodical and serial publications and author-publisher interactions, the contributors to this volumecall into question certain widely held assumptionsabout the processes through which texts becomebooks. They present the relation between text and bookas ultimately less straightforward than the one pro-posed by Nyssen. Instead, they seek to transcend thelinear progress from text to book, establishing moredynamic connections between the multiple materialstates in which a given work or document has exitedover the course of its history. §

IDEA will begin its newfive-year contract as of January2018. As such, it is currentlypreparing its bilan and projetdossiers for the HCERES,which will be visiting the centersometime in December 2016 orJanuary 2017 to evaluate it.

Members are hard atwork preparing the bilan of theirrecent projects, as well asorganizing their projects for thenext quinquennial contract.

IDEA also sends itscongratulations to MonicaLatham, who successfullydefened her HDR this pastNovember in Montpellier.Bravo, Monica.

In other news, IDEA’swebsite continues to draw anaverage of 60 hits per day, withmany days reaching as high as120 hits, mostly for its confer-ence sites or individual mem-bers’ pages. Since its inaugura-tion five years ago, around130,000 internauts from 143different countries have visitedthe website, with the most hitscoming from France, the USand the UK.

Finally, IDEA celebrat-ed its 10th birthday this pastSeptember. Céline Sabironmarked the occasion by pre-senting members with a “birth-day” cake during IDEA’s lastAssemblée Générale in earlyOctober. §§


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Winter 2015 Vol 9 No 2Editor: John S. Bak

© 2015 The Newsletter of theResearch Group IDEAAll rights reserved.

I?EA News Briefs “LJ & Latin America’s Wars” (cont.)ples. Even though literary journalismon all three continents had traditionsthat predate the 1960s, it is safe tosay that the genre came of age at thistime, and Latin America’s interactionswith Europe and the United Statesplayed an important role in the mak-ing of its own brand of literary journal-ism, by whatever name it wascalled—periodismo narrativo, jornalis-mo literário or periodismo literario.The journalistic influences fromEurope and the United States raisean incalculable number of questionsregarding the essence of LatinAmerican literary journalism to whichthis conference hopes to provideanswers. Potential questions on thetransformation of the genre in LatinAmerica could include:

• What effect did foreign literaryjournalists have on the local formwhen they began writing about LatinAmerica? Did Latin literary journalistsadopt more of an American or aEuropean sensibility when writingabout their countries’ social and polit-ical issues.

• When Germans came to Brazil inthe 19th century, some of them decid-ed to write in German. Did it changethe nature of literary journalism in thiscountry and, if so, how?

• What effect did moving to theUnited States have on writers whowere born in Latin America, such asAlma Guillermoprieto, who writes forthe American and the British pressand covered the El Mozote mas-sacre?

• When Cuba began rejecting Euro-American culture in the post-revolu-tion 60s, did its authors shun the influ-ence they had received abroad or didthey simply sublimate it?

The diversity of viewpointswill allow us to understand how liter-ary journalism has found its place inLatin America and contributed to thebuilding of a sense of nationalism,between democracy and authoritari-anism, between unity and fragmenta-tion. English will be the conference’sprincipal language, but papers canalso be presented in Spanish,Portuguese and French. §§

Latin American literary journalismis thus rarely separated from LatinAmerican politics throughout the 19th and20th centuries. Dictatorships—the mostnotorious being perhaps Chile’sPinochet—civil wars and colonial wars allinspired the work of literary journalistswho wrote knowing that reprisals wouldinevitably follow the publication of theirwork. The poet Heberto Padilla wasimprisoned in 1971, and Rodolfo Walshwas assassinated by an Argentinean mili-tia in 1977. Faced with such realities,Latin American authors had to be decep-tive to get their stories published andread. Potential questions on the history ofthe genre in Latin America that could beaddressed include:

• Is Latin American literary journalismessentially a militant journalism?

• How did Latin American literary jour-nalists avoid censorship?

• What differences can be noticedbetween works written during dictator-ships or in colonial times and those pro-duced later?

• Latin American authors were forcedto invent specific genres (crónica, crônica,testimonio) that used literary techniqueswhich allowed them to criticize authoritar-ian governments without putting their livesin danger. How subjective could theauthors be when writing their stories?What impact did their stories have on thenation and its people?

• How much distance did literary jour-nalists—Latin American or otherwise—putbetween themselves and the object oftheir writing?

• Does an authorial voice during timesof repression or a preponderant politicalagenda within a text limit its universalityand keep it from even being considered aclassic?

Latin American literary journalismwas unavoidably influenced by an import-ed/exported European reportage tradition,as well as by America’s “New Journalism”of the 1960s and 70s. While Tom Wolfe,Hunter S. Thompson and Joan Didionwere exploring the consequences coun-terculture had on an imploding America(with Didion later turning to Latin Americain Salvador), Latin American authors werestill largely trying to find a voice to expressthe struggles experienced by their peo-



Projet « Oralité » :Compte-rendu du colloque « Micro-/Macro- : quels enjeuxen linguistique anglaise ? »Par Vasilica Le Floch,Université de Lorraine

LL e colloque « Micro-/Macro- : quels enjeux en linguis-tique anglaise ? » a eu lieu les 9–10 octobre 2015 àl’Université de Lorraine, sur le site de Metz. L’objectif

du colloque était de susciter un dialogue entre des spécial-istes de l’analyse micro-linguistique avec des spécialistesd’une analyse plus contextualisée et plus large, une macro-linguistique. Le colloque a réuni des chercheurs en linguis-tique de divers horizons (France, Allemagne, Autriche etGrande-Bretagne).

Le colloque a débuté par une présentation com-mune réalisée par trois des organisatrices du colloque :« Corpus didactique scientifique : quels enjeux à l’interfacemicro-macro ? ». Héloïse Lechevallier-Parent a renducompte de la nécessité d’articuler des niveaux d’analysedisparates par l’examen du fonctionnement du pronom de2ème personne you. Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell a abordé ladimension informationnelle du propos, en analysant les con-structions pseudo-clivées et de leur rôle focalisant, remet-tant ainsi en cause une approche strictement micro-syntax-ique du phénomène. Vasilica Le Floch a étudié la manièredont la cohésion discursive (en tant que macro-structura-tion) détermine les unités de la structure sémantique, prag-matique et argumentative. Les participants ont présenté desapproches d’analyse variées, tout en mettant en relation lesdeux niveaux d’analyse, micro- et macro-, à l’intérieur de laphrase, ainsi qu’aux frontières de celle-ci, au niveau de lastructuration du discours. Le conférencier invité, GuntherKaltenböck (Université de Vienne), a proposé une approche

originale des différents niveaux d’analyse linguistique, endistinguant deux grammaires : Sentence Grammar–Thetical Grammar.

La table ronde fut l’occasion de mettre en perspec-tive les différentes approches des phénomènes langagiersexposées pendant le colloque, de questionner les niveauxde grammaticalisation, ainsi que de s’interroger à nou-veau, de façon plus générale, sur les relations entre fonc-tion grammaticale, position et sémantisme des marqueurs.

Les communications présentées lors du colloque« Micro-/macro- : quels enjeux en linguistique anglaise ? »seront publiées dans Modèles Linguistiques (tomeXXXVII, vol. 74) en 2016. Le colloque a été organisé parIDEA (projet oralité : A. Dahak, I. Gaudy-Campbell, H.Lechevallier-Parent, V. Le Floch), avec le soutien deATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la LangueFrançaise). §§

Rencontres des doctorants, 2015–2016Par Isabelle Dornier,Université de Lorraine

LL ors de la réunion des doctorants du 9 novembre2015, Anita Jorge,doctorante en deux-

ième année, a présenté l’a-vancée de ses travaux dethèse : « ‘The Sounds of aCountry at War’ : la créationd’une identité sonore britan-nique et son appropriationau cinéma et dans les docu-mentaires radiophoniquespendant la Seconde Guerremondiale ».

Anita a tout d’abordexpliqué que les sons de la guerre faisaient partie inté-grante de la vie de la nation, tel un « occupant invisi-ble », et qu’ils apparaissaient comme un élément naturelancré dans le paysage sonore national.

A travers la présence de ces sons de la guerreest apparue une nouvelle culture de l’ « auralité »,retranscrite au cinéma, à la radio. En effet la radioreprésentait « une réunion auditive » pour lesBritanniques dont l’univers sonore était en permanenceenvahi par les ondes radiophoniques. Quant au cinéma,il a servi de prisme à travers lequel pouvaient êtrevéhiculés les sons de la guerre.

Toute cette interrelation entre le paysagesonore et les individus a amené les Britanniques à serassembler face à l’adversité. Ces sonorités, utilisées àdes fins patriotiques, voire propagandistes, ont permisde renforcer le lien social etl’attachement à la nation.

L’exposé d’AnitaJorge s’est terminé par desquestions posées par lesauditeurs et des points deréflexions proposés parJohn Bak pour aider lesdoctorants dans leurs pro-jets professionnels (par.ex., les différences entreun Ph.D. et une thèse, ouun Assistant Professor,un Reader ou un SeniorLecturer et un Maître deConférence ou un Profes-seur). §



AA s part of the “Literary Journalism and War” project(ReportAGES), two Spanish scholars came toNancy on 24 November 2015 to talk about literary

journalism with respect to the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Xavier Pla, from the University of Girona

(Catalonia), talked about the life and work of Josep Pla(1897–1981), whom he considers to be the most emblem-atic figure of Spanish literary journalism of the 20th cen-tury. Although Spain remained neutral during WW I, itsjournalists covered the conflict around Europe and devel-opped literary journalism in an effort to modernize theapproach to their occupation. Josep Pla reported fromParis, Moscow or Berlin in the 1920s, and he had alreadymade a reputation for himself before the Civil War throughthe publication of his travel accounts in Coses Vistes(Things Seen) in 1925. He was very attached to theregional particularities of Catalonia and wrote most of hisworks in Catalan, opting for Spanish only during Franco’sban on regional languages. Pla had to flee to France forthe duration of the Civil War because of his closeness tothe conservative Catalanist party and only returned in1939. He collaborated for a time with Francoist newspa-pers—a support for which he was violently criticised andeven boycotted after thedeath of Franco—but hedistanced himself from poli-tics after 1940. Travelsabroad were restricted soPla turned to celebratinglocalness. His Viaje enAutobús (1942) and Viaje aPie (1949) (Travels by busand Travels on foot) thusrecorded his observation ofthe Mediterranean land-scapes and traditionalways of life of Spain in gen-eral and Catalonia in partic-ular, including the miserybrought about by Franco’sdictatorship. Writing onlynonfiction based on what he was seeing, Josep Pla gavea journalistic basis to his work, and some included auto-

biographical elementsin their narrative style.

Dr. MargaritaNavarro Pérez, fromthe Catholic Univer-sity of Murcia, thenpresented the firstobservations drawnfrom her project onfirst-hand eyewitnessaccounts and second-hand oral recollec-tions of the SpanishCivil War. Focusing onanecdotes told or passedon by both Nationalists andRepublicans, she proposed to show how the elements thatare stressed, omitted or transformed contributed to thecreation of collective memories on the people and envi-ronment of the Spanish Civil War.

She illustrated her argument with an exampledrawn from a 2013 Spanish documentary, Las Maestrasde la República (The Schoolmistresses of the Republic) toshow how the testimonies she collected conflicted with thevision of education presented in the program. In anattempt to justify the Civil War, people interviewed fromboth sides called each other “brutes” and perceived them-selves as fighting for the right cause. A common criticismabout Franco’s regime following the conflict was that it wasunfair. A testimony thus mentioned people put in prisonsimply for being wealthy or from a noble family; in another,a former Republican complained about the priviledged sta-tus granted to Francoists wounded in comparison with theRepublicans. Using the example of churches—some keptalmost intact and other robbed of their valuables and seton fire—and a line from Guillermo Del Toro's 2006 filmPan’s Labyrinth, Margarita Navarro Pérez showed thatboth sides would unashamedly posed as avengers andaccused each other of stealing, destroying and killing if thiscould serve their own interest. However, more recent tes-timonies tend to gloss over the horrors of the war commit-ted by both sides and focus instead on the altrusitic ges-tures of Francoist brother toward Republican brother.

Both talks were complementary to some extent,with Xavier Pla focusing on the Civil War personal and pro-fessional experience of one famous individual, andMargarita Navarro Pérez drawing attention to the variedevents in the everyday lives of ordinary people. Bothspeakers managed to bring a human dimension to thedehumanized and dehumanizing context of wars throughthe importance of recording—orally or in writing, informal-ly or through literary journalism—events and perceptionsof events for later generations to remember. §§

CR : IDEA Seminar Series– “Literary Journalism and theSpanish Civil War,” 24 November 2015, Nancy

Par Anne-Cécile Esch,Université de Lorraine

Xavier Pla, Universitat de Girona

Margarita Navarro Pérez,Universidad Católica de Murcia



MMEEMMBBEERRSS’’ WWIINNTTEERR 22001155 AACCTTIIVVIITTIIEESSKouamé ADOU poursuit ses recherches sur la

littérature africaine et s’intéresse particulièrement àl’histoire littéraire et au gender studies. Il a contribué àl’ouvrage Passeurs de culture et transferts culturels,dirs. E. C. Lesourd, C. Delesse, L. Denooz (Nancy :PUN-Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine, 2015) avecun article intitulé « Littérature postcoloniale et transfertde culture : le dilemme linguistique des écrivainsafricains » (137–56). De même, son article « Memoryand Exile : The Transatlantic and Diasporic Dimensionsof the Myth of Ashanti Princess Abla Pokou » a été pub-lié par la revue Études Littéraires Africaines 39 (2015):145–59. Enfin, il a rédigé une note de lecture sur l’ou-vrage Africa Unite ! Une histoire du panafricanisme(Paris, Ed. La Découverte, coll. Cahiers libres, 2014)de l’historien Amzat Boukari-Yabara pour la revueQuestions de Communication 27 (2015) : 388–90.

Claudine Armand attended last June an inter-national conference on “Contemporary IndigenousRealities” at the Faculty of Philosophy, Nikšić,University of Montenegro, where she gave a paper onLuiseño installation and performance artist JamesLuna. The title of her paper was “California Forgets.Luna Remembers”: Sensing Contemporary NativeAmerican Realities in James Luna’s performanceNative Stories: For Fun, Profit & Guilt.” She has alsorecently published an article: “Fred Wilson’sInstallations: Undoing Permanence” in Monuments etModernité dans l’art et la littérature britanniques etaméricaines, eds. Marc Porée and Christine Savinel(Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2015).

Since July, John S. Bak has published one arti-cle, “‘Stranger with Yellow Gloves’ by TennesseeWilliams: Edited with a Commentary,” PhilologicalQuarterly 94.1-2 (2015): 173–84. He also gave akeynote speech entitled “Interdisciplinarity: The NewDiscipline?” at the international conference“Challenges and Possibilities for Language, Literature,and Culture in a Globalised World” held at theUniversidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (Spain),from 10–11 September 2015.

Antonella Braida, who has just joined the IUTCharlemagne as Maître de Conférence in English, willbe continuing her research on British Romanticism andreception studies. She is currently organizing a one-day conference on the European reception of MaryShelley to be held in Nancy on 29 April 2016.

Marilyne Brun attended the “Festival Inter-national de Géographie” held in Saint Dié des Vosgesin October: she participated in a round table onAustralia and its imaginaries, and presented a paperentitled “Les demandeurs d’asile en Australie : poli-tiques d’immigration et exclusion de l’imaginairenational.” Marilyne is currently doing research on twomain topics: Australian universities and internationalstudents, and the history of academic disciplines in

Australia. Nathalie Collé finished editing BPTI 3,

Contemporary Textual Aesthetics, and BPTI 4, FromText(s) to Book(s): Studies in Production and EditorialProcesses, with Monica Latham. She is now workingon BPTI 5, Illustration in Question: Textual and VisualCrossovers (working title), with colleagues MaximeLeroy (Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse),Sophie Aymes (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon) andBrigitte Friant-Kessler (Université de Valenciennes).Together they have been co-organizing the third inter-national gathering of the research network Illustratio,on the topic “Illustrer l’histoire / Illustrating History.”The symposium will take place at the Université deValenciennes on 4 December 2015. She participatedin the international conference “Towards a GraphicCulture: Studying Drawing” organized by BenoîtBerthou (Université Paris 13) and Philippe Marion(Université Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium) on 15–16June 2015 in Florence, Italy, and gave a paper enti-tled “Beyond Graphic Culture: The Modern and Post-Modern Life of Drawings. Examples from EnglishLiterary Classics.” She also fully designed and pro-duced the Spring 2015 issue of The Recorder, thenewsletter the International John Bunyan Society,and co-edited volume 72 of the Revue de la SEAAXVII-XVIII.

Anissa Dahak a publié dans le numéro 18d’Anglophonia un article intitulé « If you like et if youwill : des marqueurs de discours ? ». Elle a participéavec Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell, Vasilica Le Floch etHéloïse Parent à l’organisation du colloque interna-tional « Micro-/Macro- : quels enjeux en linguistiqueanglaise », qui a eu lieu les 9 et 10 octobre 2015 àMetz. En décembre, elle fera partie du jury de soute-nance de doctorat de Nicolas Trapateau, dont lathèse est intitulée « Placement de l’accent et voyellesinaccentuées dans la prononciation de l’anglais duXVIIIè siècle sur la base du témoignage des diction-naires de prononciation, des vers et de la musiquevocale ».

Catherine Delesse a publié en 2015 un arti-cle intitulé « Le transfert des aspects culturels britan-niques dans la traduction de Harry Potter », in ElsaChaarani, Catherine Delesse et Laurence Denooz(dir.), Passeurs de culture et transferts culturels(Nancy : PUN-Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine,2015). Elle a fait une communication à une journéed’études (du Celiso Paris–Sorbonne) en juin 2015,intitulé « La négation en vieil-anglais et son évolu-tion ». Elle a participée au comité scientifique de la4ème édition du colloque international CBDA(Colloque Bisannuel de diachronie de l’anglais) les6–8 juillet à Troyes, colloque dont elle assurera lapublication avec Elise Louviot (Université de Reims-

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Jean-Philippe Heberlé a terminé la rédactiond’un ouvrage sur les opéras de Peter Maxwell Davies.Il a également participé à deux émissions de radio con-sacrées pour l’une à la comédie musicale et l’autre àMy Fair Lady. Dans le cadre des représentations de MyFair Lady programmées les 18, 19, 26, 27 et 31décembre 2015, et le 1er janvier 2016, il a donné le 12décembre une conférence intitulée « My Fair Lady : dela comédie musicale au film » à l’Opéra-Théâtre deMetz-Métropole.

Rachel Hutchins’s article, “Construction etnégociation de l’identité nationale: Comparaison desprogrammes et des manuels scolaire d’histoire pour leprimaire en France et aux États-Unis (1980–2010),”was published in the summer edition of Histoire@Politique (n° 26), the open-access journal of the Centred’histoire de Sciences Po, available at histoire-poli-t i q u e . f r / i n d e x . p h p ? n u m e r o = 2 6 & r u b = a u t r e s -articles&item=91.

André Kaenel a publié deux recensions d’ou-vrages dans la revue en ligne Cercles : RebeccaPrime, Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist andCold War Film Culture (Rutgers UP, 2014) et NickSmedley, The Roots of Modern Hollywood: ThePersistence of Values in American Cinema from theNew Deal to the Present (Chicago: Intellect, 2014). Ennovembre, à l’Université de Strasbourg, il a présidé lejury de soutenance de thèse de François Doppler,« Civils et militaires. Les aspects culturels de laprésence américaine en France, 1944–1967 » (Dir.Bernard Genton).

Monica Latham a publié l’article intitulé “MrsDalloway’s Afterlives: From Caricature to BlankParody,” dans The Status of Rewriting in 20th–21stcentury Art, Film and Literature in English: aestheticchoice or political act?, eds. Estelle Epinoux etNathalie Martinière (Paris : Michel Houdiard, 2015),23–37. Elle a co-édité, avec Nathalie Collé, deuxnuméros de la série « Book Practices and TextualItineraries » publiée aux PUN–Éditions Universitairesde Lorraine : Book Practices & Textual Itineraries 3(2013) : Contemporary Textual Aesthetics et BookPractices & Textual Itineraries 4 (2014) : From Text(s)to Book(s): Studies in Production and EditorialProcesses. Elle a également co-rédigé les introduc-tions à ces numéros. Monica a soutenu son HDR le 28novembre 2015 à l’Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3. Sa note de synthèse est intitulée « Réécrire lecanon : filiations et itinéraires du roman contemporainanglo-américain ». Christine Reynier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) est sa garante.

Héloïse Lechevallier-Parent a co-organiséavec les collègues linguistes d’IDEA le colloque« Micro-/-Macro : quels enjeux en linguistiqueanglaise ? », qui s’est tenu les 9–10 octobre àl’Université de Lorraine (Metz). À cette occasion, elle a

participé à la communication donnée en ouverture enaxant l’étude et l’articulation des différents niveauxd’analyse linguistique sur le cas du calcul de la valeurdu pronom you en anglais. Un ouvrage collectiffaisant suite à ce colloque est en cours d’élaboration.Elle a également donné une communication à l’occa-sion du colloque « Le Choix des Mots », qui s’est tenuà l’Université de Poitiers les 26–28 octobre (commu-nication intitulée « Généricité nominale, dénotation etdénomination d’espèce en anglais contemporain »).Cette étude donnera lieu à une publication (courant2016). Elle a également été invitée à présenter uneétude sur l’analyse des valeurs référentielles de youcomme calcul complexe à l’occasion de la journéed’étude sur « La Complexité en linguistique » organ-isée à l’Université de Strasbourg le 13 novembre.

Invité, le 15 septembre 2015, dans leDépartement de Littérature Comparée par MmeTatiana Victoroff, au sein de l’Université deStrasbourg, Yann Tholoniat a donné une conférenced’introduction à la poésie de Wilfred Owen. Il a rédigéune notice sur Siegfried Sassoon—« ‘Mutinous Icried’ : les combats de Siegfried Sassoon »—pour lecatalogue de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre dePéronne (Gallimard, à paraître en 2016). Un articleest paru : « Robert Burns: Nature’s Bard and Nature’sPowers », in Environmental and Ecological Readingsin Scotland: Nature, Human and PosthumanDimensions in Scottish Literature and Arts, 18th–21stcenturies, ed. Philippe Laplace (Besançon : PressesUniversitaires de Franche–Comté, 2015), 75–92.

Jeremy Tranmer is a member of the scientificcommittee for the “Labour (dis)united” conference tobe held at the People’s History Museum inManchester in April 2016. He has thus been evaluat-ing proposals. He has also been working on the callfor papers for the conference he is co-organizing inNovember 2016 with colleagues from Nancy andParis 3 (“Revisiting the UK’s North–South Divide: TheChanging Face of the North”). He was invited to givea paper on British music and politics in the 1980s at aseminar in Strasbourg, the theme of which was“Contacts, heurts, frictions.” §§

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Université de Lorraine (EA 2338 IDEA)3, place Godefroy de BouillonBP 331754015 Nancy cedexFrance

CR: “Paris and London 1851–1900: Spaces of Trans-formation,” MFO, OxfordPar Céline Sabiron,Université de Lorraine


IIDEA supported the internation-al London–Paris conferencewhich took place at the Maison

Française d’Oxford on October 23–24 2015.

The conference programwas very rich with well-establishedart historians like Prof. JonathanConlin (Southampton University,author of Tales of Two Cities: Paris-London and the Birth of the ModernCity, 2013, among others) andrenowned plenary speakers, suchas Diana Cooper-Richet andMichel Rapoport, both fromVersailles–St Quentin University(authors of L’Entente cordiale Centans de relations culturelles franco-britanniques (1904-2004), eds.Diana Cooper-Richet and MichelRapoport, Paris, Créaphis, 2006,and Nos meilleurs ennemis. Les

relations culturelles franco-britan-niques revisitées, eds. DianaCooper-Richet and MichelRapoport, Paris, Atlande, 2013), orPatrick McGuinness (http://www.patrickmcguinness.org.uk/).

The conference dealt withthe question of the cultural transferbetween London and Paris duringthe second half of the 19th centu-ry. The two capital cities—whichare privileged lenses throughwhich to assess the progression ofthe modern metropolis—haveoften been the focus of studies,from cultural history to great liter-ary changes, most of which havebeen examined from a global per-spective. And yet, it is only recent-ly that the two cities have beensurveyed comparatively: the aimof the conference was thus to con-centrate exclusively on the culturalexchanges between the two capi-tals and to consider what thatcross-Channel circulation, thatback-and-forth flux has brought to

one or/and the other, from a historical,aesthetic, artistic, and literary perspec-tives as well as from the context oftranslation practices. There is a bookproject on the conference topic.

For more information aboutthe conference and its programme,please have a look here: https://parislondonxix.wordpress.com/ §§

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