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MC: Prof. Brian Richardson (University of Maryland): “The Dubious Narratives of Joyce’s “The Dead”: Misreading Self, Text, and Other”

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May 25, 2023 from 02:00 to 04:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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GCSC (MFR)

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This seminar will focus on narratological aspects of “The Dead”: its narration and narrator, focalizers, plot and progression. We will also discuss the themes or interpretation and misinterpretation in this work and explore the role of reader: which readers is this work addressed to? Does it depict misreadings that the reader should see through? Does it stage misreadings that the reader should avoid? We will then determine the consequences of our reading for determining the meaning of the work’s ending.
 
 
Questions for those attending the masterclass:
Who is the narrator of “The Dead”?
Does the narration change in the first paragraphs and the last paragraphs?
What are the major acts of misinterpretation in the work?
Who is the implied reader (or readers) of the work? What is the intended audience expected to perceive? What are they expected to miss?

// Brian Richardson is a Professor in the English department of the University of Maryland, where he teaches modern literature and narrative theory. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (2006, Perkins Prize winner); Unnatural Narratives: Theory, History, and Practice (2015), A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-first Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives (2019), and Essays on Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts (2021), a collection of his recent articles on several basic narratological subjects. His latest book, The Reader of Modernist Fiction, is scheduled to be published in 2024. Richardson has edited or co-edited ten collections of essays on narrative theory, including the anthologies Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices (2008) and with Jan Alber, Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges. He guest-edited special issues of Style on Concepts of Narrative (34.2, 2000) and on The Implied Author (44.1, 2011), an issue of Conradiana on Conrad and the Reader (35.1, 2003), and a group of essays on Unnatural Narrative and Feminist Theory in Storyworlds (2016). An issue of Style devoted to an analysis of his work appeared in December 2017. He has published over 100 articles; these have explored reader response theory, narrative sequence, endings, character, fictionality, realism, African American and postcolonial narratives, the poetics of drama, and the narratives of literary history. His work has been translated into French, German, Czech, Portuguese, Danish, Magyar, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, and Chinese. In 2011 he served as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. His website is https://brianerichardson.weebly.com

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Organized by the Department of Anglistik in colloboration with the IPP.

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