Friday, 11th October, 8.45: Registration
8.45: Registration
9.15: Welcome address from the organisers
9.30: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies (Tübingen): Leonard’s Sorrow: The Discursive Uses of Failure
10.00 – 12.00: 17th and 18th Century Writing
Chair: PD Dr. Miriam Wallraven (Tübingen)
Christina Alert (Tübingen): Failure in Utopia: Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World
Sarah Townshend (St Andrews): Failures of Performance: Cross-Dressing on the Stage
Jutta Kling (Tübingen, St Andrews): Narration Strategies and Failed Reception: Decoding Irony
13.30 – 15.30 : 19th and 20th Century Writing
Chair: Dr. Elena Anastasaki (Tübingen)
Gero Bauer (Tübingen): The Failure to Perform: Unlivable Masculinities in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
Heather Scott (UCL): Mortal Failure: The Afterlife in the London Garden Cemetery
Eliza Cubitt (UCL): 'Realism With its Back Up’: Anticipating Failed Readings of Late-Victorian Slum Fiction
16.00 – 18.00: 20th Century Writing
Chair: Sean Mark (Tübingen)
Katy Cook (UCL): Death in Venice and the Hero’s Journey: A Modern Failure of Epic Proportion
Luke Davies (UCL): The Denigration of Poverty: In the Service of Biopower
Rebecca Hahn (Tübingen): Failing to Clean: Dirt and Dust in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s ‘A Work of Art’
Followed by a reception outside room 027
Saturday, 12th October, 10.00 – 12.00: 20th Century Writing
Chair: Dr. Shawn Huelle (Tübingen)
Sandra Fluhrer (Munich): Silly Walks: Beckett’s Gait Studies
Nadine Feßler (Munich): Failure in Cormac McCarthy's Works
Elsa Court (UCL): ‘When all else fails, philosophize.’ Axioms, Poetry and the Language of Failure in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
13.30 – 15.30: 20th and 21st Century Writing
Chair: Jocelyn Parr (Tübingen)
Erik Pietschmann (Tübingen): Failed and Failing Patriarchs—Aging White Heterosexual Men in Contemporary Film
Morven Fraser (St Andrews): Chloé Delaume as Autofictional Failure
Alexandra Parson (UCL): Representing Disintegration: Derek Jarman’s Late Life-writing
Followed by a roundtable discussion
