SEMINAR
"LITERATURE: HISTORY, METAHISTORY"

PROGRAM

FRIDAY 20.4. 2001, 10-17

10-12 Lecture by professor Dolinin: Literature and History

12-14 Lunch

Discussion of papers, 14.00-17.00

14.00-14.30 Klaus Brax: Probing the Beginnings of a Theory: Fowles and Foucault on Victorian Sexuality

14.30-15.00 Mari Hatavara: Narrative Structure in Historical Novel and Historiography: Historical component in the novels of Zacharias Topelius and Fredrika Runeberg

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-16.00 Stanislav Savitsky: The Absurd as a Key Concept in the Literature of the Leningrad Underground

16.00-16.30 Hanna Ruutu: On Becoming a Poet: History and myth in Marina Tsvetaeva's autobiographical prose "The House at Old Pimen"

16.30-17.00 Maija Knnen: Brodsky's Poem "Razvivaya Platona": Space, time and memory in Brodsky's Petersburg poetry (History as a recurrent event)

SATURDAY 21.4.2001, 10-14

10-12 Lecture by professor Dolinin: Literature and Metahistory

11.45-12.15 Coffee break

Discussion of papers, 12.15-14.00

12.15-12.45 Liubov Iouzina-Tarvainen: Russian and American Pushkin Studies: Narrowing the gap?

12.45-13.15 Maria Ihonen: Counterfactual History and Fantasy

13.15-13.45 Markku Lehtimki: History and the Production of a Literary Meaning in Norman Mailer?s "The Armies of the Night"

13.45-14.00 Closing of the seminar