Day 3: Wednesday 7 June
Hôtel Fleuriau: Musée du Nouveau Monde, 10 Rue Fleuriau
- 09:00-10:30
- REAL AND NARRATED WORLDS I
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Chaired by Martin Eve
Ali Dehdarirad, Chad Hegelmeyer and Maria Ángeles Martinez - ⇒ 09:00-09:30
- Pynchon in the Real World
- Chad Hegelmeyer
- ⇒ 09:30-10:00
- The Construction of Space as Utopian-Dystopian Projections and the Question of Alternative Worlds in Thomas Pynchon's Recent Fiction
- Ali Dehdarirad
- ⇒ 10:00-10:30
- Experiencing Against the Day Through a Teenage Storyworld Possible Self
- Maria Ángeles Martinez
- 10:30-10:45
- Coffee Break
- 10:45-12:15
- REAL AND NARRATED WORLDS II
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Chaired by Luc Herman
Lucille Hagège, Gary Thompson and Noah Toyonaga - ⇒ 10:45-11:15
- A Second Order Poetics in Gravity’s Rainbow
- Noah Toyonaga
- ⇒ 11:15-11:45
- Ekphrasis and the Visual Representation of Information in Gravity’s Rainbow
- Lucille Hagège
- ⇒ 11:45-12:15
- Pynchon, History and kairos
- Gary Thompson
- 12:15-14:00
- Lunch
- 14:00-15:00
- PYNCHON'S MOODS
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Chaired by Lucille Hagège
Doug Haynes and Joel Roberts - ⇒ 14:00-14:30
- 'A More Comely Beak': Black Humour Reloaded
- Doug Haynes
- ⇒ 14:30-15:00
- New World Melancholia: Guilt and Innocence in the Work of Thomas Pynchon
- Joel Roberts
- 15:00-15:15
- Coffee Break
- 15:15-16:45
- LOVE AND DEATH
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Chaired by Doug Haynes
Miriam Fernández-Santiago, Michael Harris and Gregory Stephen Marks - ⇒ 15:15-15:45
- From Isolation to Affirmation: Love of the World in The Crying of Lot 49
- Gregory Stephen Marks
- ⇒ 15:45-16:15
- Mr. Pynchon Goes to Iowa: The Search for Community in the Later Novels
- Michael Harris
- ⇒ 16:15-16:45
- 'Working Through' the Postmodern: Posthuman Mourning in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
- Miriam Fernández-Santiago
- 18:00-19:00
- Pynchon, le disparu: (in French; in the Médiathèque)
- Nicolas Richard