Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, LILAe

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Paratexts – including dust jackets, dedications, indexes, illustrations, blurbs, marginalia, maps, and fan fictions – are an indispensable part of the technology and experience of reading. Since the publication of Gerard Genette’s landmark study Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation (1987; trans. 1997), these “borderlands of the text” have become an object of intense attention for critics, who have used them to rethink the relationship between narrative form, modes of publishing, and book materiality. In this half-day workshop for students, teachers, and researchers, three specialists in this field will demonstrate how analysis of the function of paratexts in novels, plays, and poetry can generate compelling new insights. All Welcome! For more information, contact Leonard Driscoll (leonard.driscoll@engelska.uu.se) Programme 13.15 Welcome 13.30 Paratexts and Paranormality in Vernon Lee’s ‘Hauntings’ Sally Blackburn, Liverpool University 14.15 Unparatexts: The Return of the Author Dennis Duncan, Cambridge University 15.00 Coffee break 15.30 The Pages of Pride and Prejudice Christina Lupton, Warwick University 16.15 Closing remarks 16.30 Symposium ends The workshop is organised by the Department of English at Uppsala University with the support of Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minne and LILAe, the Research Network in Literary Studies at the Faculty of Languages, Uppsala University.