Pynchon's New Worlds

Day 2: Tuesday 6 June

Hôtel Fleuriau: Musée du Nouveau Monde, 10 Rue Fleuriau

08:15-08:45

Registration at the Musée du Nouveau Monde

 

09:00-10:30

SOUNDS

  Chaired by Georgios Maragos
  Christian Hänggi, Zofia Kolbuszewska and Justin St. Clair

⇒ 09:00-09:30

Curious Performance of Nescience: The Ear as a Cryptophore in Mason & Dixon

  Zofia Kolbuszewska

⇒ 09:30-10:00

Ellipsonics: Sound and the Invisible in Mason & Dixon

  Justin St. Clair

⇒ 10:00-10:30

The Pynchon Playlist: A Statistical Analysis

  Christian Hänggi

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:15

THE NEW OUT OF THE OLD

  Chaired by Christian Hänggi
  Simon de Bourcier, Abeer Fahim and Thoren Opitz

⇒ 10:45-11:15

The Impermanence of Intertextual Identity: Whitman, Pynchon and Decomposition

  Thoren Opitz

⇒ 11:15-11:45

Thomas Pynchon, the Camera and the Ghosts of The Scarlet Letter

  Abeer Fahim

⇒ 11:45-12:15

'[L]ike the Over-soul of the Hindoo': How Eastern Philosophy Became Part of Mason & Dixon’s version of What It Is to Be American With the Help of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simon de Bourcier

12:15-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:30

NEW TOPOLOGIES OF THE CITY

  Chaired by Simon de Bourcier
  Sean Carswell, Bastien Meresse and Li Rongrui

⇒ 14:00-14:30

'She can’t resist, she needs to be out in the street’ (BE 101)': The Transient City and the Ethos of Walking in Bleeding Edge

  Bastien Meresse

⇒ 14:30-15:00

Cognitive Mapping of the City Space: The Rewrite of the Hard-boiled Detective Fiction of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice

  Li Rongrui

⇒ 15:00-15:30

Doc, the Dude and Marlowe: Changing Masculinities from The Big Sleep to Inherent Vice

  Sean Carswell

15:30-15:45

Coffee Break

 

15:45-17:15

NEW TOPOLOGIES

  Chaired by Bastien Meresse
  Martin Eve, Romina Kipouridou and Kyle Smith

⇒ 15:45-16:15

The Modern Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon’s Work

  Romina Kipouridou

⇒ 16:15-16:45

Thomas Pynchon in the Bowels of the Earth: Tunnelers, Enchanters and Little People

  Kyle Smith

⇒ 16:45-17:15

'Maybe, but it’s code’s all it is': Thomas Pynchon, Cow Country, and Computational Stylometry

  Martin Eve