Project Narrative: Visiting Scholars Talks on Mind, Screen, and Fictionality

April 27, 2017

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Denney Hall 209

2017-04-27 16:00:00 2017-04-27 17:30:00 Project Narrative: Visiting Scholars Talks on Mind, Screen, and Fictionality José Antonio Álvarez-Amoros, Universidad de Alicante: "Mind and the Deployment of Ideology in Henry James's Short Fiction"Violeta Martinez, University Autónoma of Madrid: "'Great Expectations' on Screen:  A Critical Study of Film Adaptation"Toon Staes, Universiteit Antwerpen: "Fictionality, Once Removed: William Vollmann's An Afghanistan Picture Show in the Archive"Using the standard toolkit of cognitive narratology, and especially notions such as meta-representation and distributed identity, José Antonio Álvarez-Amoros argues that the minds contributing to the construction of absent or quasi-absent characters in a number of James's tales do not form random aggregates, but rather ideological "clines" which show several degrees of commitment to the central idea or generating cell behind such tales.Violeta Martinez takes Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and its ten screen versions as a case study to examine how the changing political, economic, and sociocultural scenarios have affected the production of each film adaptation, from 1909 to 2016.Toon Staes taps into the "Great Fictionality Debate" currently underway in narrative studies. He hopes to demonstrate what a genetic approach can add to it by tracing the strange composition history of William Vollman's nonfiction work, An Afghanistan Picture Show (1991). From notebooks, through typescripts, to published text—all archived here at OSU—Vollman turned increasingly to fictionality to pursue his ethical and rhetorical goals.  Denney Hall 209 America/New_York public

José Antonio Álvarez-Amoros, Universidad de Alicante: "Mind and the Deployment of Ideology in Henry James's Short Fiction"

Violeta Martinez, University Autónoma of Madrid: "'Great Expectations' on Screen: A Critical Study of Film Adaptation"

Toon Staes, Universiteit Antwerpen: "Fictionality, Once Removed: William Vollmann's An Afghanistan Picture Show in the Archive"

Using the standard toolkit of cognitive narratology, and especially notions such as meta-representation and distributed identity, José Antonio Álvarez-Amoros argues that the minds contributing to the construction of absent or quasi-absent characters in a number of James's tales do not form random aggregates, but rather ideological "clines" which show several degrees of commitment to the central idea or generating cell behind such tales.

Violeta Martinez takes Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and its ten screen versions as a case study to examine how the changing political, economic, and sociocultural scenarios have affected the production of each film adaptation, from 1909 to 2016.

Toon Staes taps into the "Great Fictionality Debate" currently underway in narrative studies. He hopes to demonstrate what a genetic approach can add to it by tracing the strange composition history of William Vollman's nonfiction work, An Afghanistan Picture Show (1991). From notebooks, through typescripts, to published text—all archived here at OSU—Vollman turned increasingly to fictionality to pursue his ethical and rhetorical goals.