Dream, Imagination and Reality in Literature

International Literary Conference
České Budějovice, 30^th June - 2^nd July 2006
University of South Bohemia

 

The conference programme:

Friday 30.6.2006

Imagination and Fantasy: Imaginary Worlds, Room 319, 3rd floor Chair: Martin Procházka
1,00-2,00 p.m.	Registration - Pedagogical Faculty, University of South Bohemia, 9 Dukelská Street, České Budějovice, Room 321, 3rd floor
2,00-3,00 p.m.	Conference opening
3,00-3,30 p.m.	Tea/Coffee
3,30-3,50 p.m.	M.Procházka (Charles University, Prague) - Introduction to the conference theme
3,50-4,10 p.m.	Renata Kamenická (Masaryk University, Brno) - Dreaming the Original: Original and Translation as two Different Fictional Worlds
4,10-4,30 p.m.	Gargi Gangopadhyay (Calcutta University, India) - Make-belief and Disbelief: Operations of Fantasy in Fairy Tales and Nonsense
4,30-5,00 p.m.	M.Procházka (Charles University, Prague) - Between Hoax and Ideology: Theory and Illusions of Imagination in Chapter XIII of Coleridge's 'Biographia Literaria'
5,00-5,30 p.m.	Discussion
6,00-8,00 p.m.	Dinner (The Alchemist Restaurant)

 

Saturday 1.7.2006

Dreams in Literature, Room 319, 3rd floor Chair: Kamila Vránková		Imagining Gender, Otherness, Children, Room 115, 1st floor Chair: Christopher E. Koy
8,00-9,00	Registration	8,00-9,00	Registration
9,00-9,20	B. Mánek (University Hradec Kralove) - Dreams of the Great Past in English and Czech Romantic Poetry	9,00-9,20	P. Ghasemi (Shiraz University Iran) - Reflections of Self and Other in Sylvia Plath's "Mirror"
9,20-9,40	H. Tampierová (University Hradec Kralove) - The Dream of the Rood - A Blend of Pagan and Christian Values	9,20-9,40	E. Skopečková (University of West Bohemia, Plzeň) - Encounters with Otherness in E.M. Forster's A Room With a View' and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Lost Girl'
9,40-10,05	Discussion	9,40-10,05	Discussion
10,10-10,45	Tea/Coffee	10,10-10,45	Tea/Coffee
10,45-11,05	J. Heczková (Masaryk University, Brno) - "(Un)Dreamable Dreams:" On the Function of Dream in the Novels by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker	10,45-11,05	P. Dvořák (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice) - The Picture of Children in the Novels and Short Stories by Graham Greene
11,05-11,25	C. Dupuy (University of Ireland, Galway) - Mentorial Dreams in S.F. Said's Fiction for Children	11,05-11,25	L. Lišková (University of West Bohemia, Plzeň) - Naughty Lewis Carroll
11,25-11,45	J. Kušnír (University of Prešov, Slovakia) - Reality, Imagination and Possible Worlds in American Postmodern Fiction	11,25-11,45	S.J. Williams (University of Brighton) - Death, Angels and Football -Blake's Visions and Almond's England
11,45-12,00 p.m.	Discussion	11,45-12,00	Discussion
12,00 - 2,00 p.m.	Lunch (The Metropol Restaurant)	12,00 - 2,00 p.m.	Lunch (The Metropol Restaurant)

 

Saturday 1.7.2006

Dreams/Imagining and Place, Room 319, 3rd floor Chair: Helena Tampierová		Dream and Reality, Room 115, 1st floor Chair: Bohuslav Mánek
2,00-2,20 p.m.	K. Prajznerová (Masaryk University, Brno) - Dreams of Homecoming in the Appalachian Novels of Harriette Arnow and Barbara Kingsolver	2,00-2,20 p.m.	K. Vránková (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice) - "A Fearful Voyage I Had:" Dreams of Reality in Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' and Jean Rhys's 'Wide Sargasso Sea'
2,20-2,40 p.m.	A. Sukdolová (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice) - The "Heterotopia" of Landscape in the Victorian Novel	2,20-2,40 p.m.	B. Djorić-Francuski (Faculty of Philology, Belgrade) - How Many Dreams Are There in 'Bruno's Dream'?
2,40-3,00 p.m.	A.A. Dancer (University British Columbia, Canada) - Ernest Thompson Seton and the Canadian Wilderness Imaginary: From Literary Space to a Place of Belonging	2,40-3,00 p.m.	Z. Fonioková (Masaryk University, Brno) - The Orphan's Dream Come True: Representation of Reality in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'When We Were Orphans'
3,00-3,20 p.m.	Discussion	3,00-3,20 p.m.	Discussion
3,20-3,50 p.m.	Tea/Coffee	3,20-3,50 p.m.	Tea/Coffee
3,50-4,10 p.m.	P.Chalupský (Charles University, Prague) - The Real and Imaginary City in the Works of Martin Amis and Ian McEwan	3,50-4,10 p.m.	C. Pérez Valverde (Campus de Cartuja, Granada, Spain) - Dreams and Liminality in the Mary Poppins Books
4,10-4,30 p.m.	Ch.E. Koy (University of West Bohemia, Plzeň) - Signifying on Scots: Chesnutt's Parodies of Sir Walter Scott	4,10-4,30 p.m.	J. Ženíšek (Charles University, Prague) - Toni Morrison's Magic Realism: Woodoo or Allegory
4,30-5,00 p.m.	Discussion	4,30-5,00 p.m.	Discussion
5,00 p.m.	Sightseeing Tour -České Budějovice or Český Krumlov	5,00 p.m.	Sightseeing Tour -České Budějovice or Český Krumlov

 

Sunday 2.7.2006

Imagination and Reality in Film and Theatre, Room 319, 3rd floor Chair: Alice Sukdolová
9,00-9,20	L. Podroužková (Masaryk University, Brno) - Imagining Shakespeare: Fact and Fiction in 'Shakespeare in Love'
9,20-9,40	Z.A. Tóth (University of Szeged, Hungary) - On the Verge of Reality: Roxie's Day-Dreaming as Passage between Two Realms of Existence in 'Chicago' (2002)
9,40-10,00	Discussion
10,00-10,20	Z. Vernyik (MU Brno) - Charting a Dream. The Textual and Spatial Structure of E.E. Cummings' 'Him'
10,20-10,40	I. Škanderová (University of West Bohemia, Plzeň) - "Present Fears Are Less than Horrible Imaginings:" Imagination and Reality in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
10,40-11,00	Discussion
11,00	Conference closing
	Tea/Coffee