The Outlandish, Uncanny, and Bizarre in Literatures and Cultures
University of Opole, 29-30 September 2014
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
MONDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2014 – MORNING SESSION9:00-10:00 REGISTRATION
10:00-10:15 OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
10:15-11:45 PLENARY SESSION,Chair Prof. Ryszard Wolny (Senate Chamber / Sala Senatu)
10:15-11:00 Prof. Liliana Sikorska
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
The Bizarre Bazaar, or on “going into hethen cuntre” in medieval and nineteenth century romances
11:00-11:45 Prof. Andrew Taylor
Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
The Exotic and the Bizarre in Australian Fiction: Henry Handel Richardson'sMaurice Guest and Randolph Stow'sTourmaline
11:45-12:00 COFFEE BREAK
SECTION 1
Room: 207
Chair: Andrew Taylor / SECTION 2
Room: 207A
Chair: MarekBłaszak / SECTION 3
Room: 208
Chair: Beate Jospehi
12:00-12:30
Paulina Mirowska
University of Łódz, Łódz, Poland
“Sam Shepard’s Uncanny Old West:Silent Tongue” / 12:00-12:30
Josephine Sharoni
University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom
“The Vampire as Doppelgänger in Bram Stoker’sDracula” / 12:00-12:30
Jacek Mydla
University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland
“Unheimliche and l’étrange: Freud and Todorov meet Count Dracula and Sherlock Holmes”
12:30-13:00
Dilek Menteşe
Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
“Reversing the ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Humour and Horror in Bernardine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots” / 12:30-13:00
Alexandra Martin
University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
“The Doppelgänger and Psychomania as Observed in Nineteenth-Century Romanian Literature” / 12:30-13:00
Dorota Gładkowska
The University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
“John Donne’s Vision of Infinity – an Escape into the World of Illusions or a Return to Reality?”
13:00-13:30
Christopher Melley
Independent Scholar, USA
“To Name a Monster is to Catch (the Image of) a Monster: Reflections on the Limits of Language and Literature / 13:00-13:30
Jarosław Giza
KEN Secondary School, Nowy Sącz, Poland
“The Uncanny in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s Young Adult Fiction – The New Revival of Gothic? “ / 13:00-13:30
Agnieszka Kaczmarek
Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Nysie, Nysa, Poland
“Edward Abbey Speaks: The Uncanny in Desert Solitaire”
13:30-14:00
Kübra Baysal
Kastamonu University, Kastamonu, Turkey
“Reviving the Mummy from Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars to Rice’s TheMummy, or Ramses the Damned” / 13:30-14:00
Pavla Veselá
Charles University , Prague, Czech Republic
Conspire or Expire? Conspiracy Theory as Postmodern Gothic / 13:30-14:00
Tomasz Gornat
Opole University, Opole, Poland
Death, Doubles and the Uncanny Gothic in James Joyce’s “The Dead”
14:00-15:30 LUNCH BREAK
MONDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2014 – AFTERNOON SESSION
SECTION 1
Room: 207
Chair: Jacek Mydla / SECTION 2
Room: 207A
Chair: Christopher Melley / SECTION 3
Room: 208
Chair: Barabara Braid
15:30-16:00
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
Opole University, Opole, Poland
“Constructing ‘the extraordinary’ in journalistic discourse on science: A study of The New Scientist’s headlines” / 15:30-16:00
Mariela Cvetic
University in Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
“Making the World According to Me” / 15:30-16:00
Natalia Kokoshnikova
The Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
“How to turn ordinary things into extraordinary: Roald Dahl’s stories for children”
16:00-16:30
Daniel Broudy and David Ulvog,
Okinawa Christian University, Okinawa, Japan
“Weaponised Chemicals: A Study of Corporate Communication and the Bizarre” / 16:00-16:30
Wojciech Boryszewski
The University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
“Visual representations of Shakespeare’s Caliban” / 16:00-16:30
Agata Łukasiewicz
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
“Familiar, strange, or odd? The supernatural quality of the villain from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series”
16:30-17:00
Andrzej Widota
Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa, Racibórz, Poland
“Conservative Demonology: Citizens from Hell in the Polish Right-Wing Discourse” / 16:30-17:00
Magdalena Mączyńska
Opole University, Opole, Poland
“[T]he place of things that are” – Neil Gaiman’s wanderers of uncanny worlds” / 16:30-17:00
Stephen Dewsbury
Opole University, Opole, Poland
“Uncanny Interpretations of Class and Authority in Monty Python’s Flying Circus”
17:00-17:30
Eliza Marków
Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
“How Bizarre: Uncanny Canines and Other Curious Species on the World Wide Web”
19:00-21:00 CONFERENCE GALA DINNER
Villa Academica,Powstańców Śląskich 22
TUESDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2014 – MORNING SESSION
09:30-10:30 PLENARY SESSION,Chair, Prof. Ryszard Wolny (Senate Chamber / Sala Senatu)
09:30-10:15Prof. Beate Jospehi
Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Bizarre Occurrences or Lived Experience?
A Look at the Bizarre and Outlandish in Tabloids around the Globe
10:15-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
SECTION 1
Room: 207
Chair: Tomasz Gornat / SECTION 2
Room: 207A
Chair: Mika Hallila / SECTION 3
Room: 208
Chair: Steven Dewsbury
11:00-11:30
Marek Błaszak
Opole University, Opole, Poland
“The Uncanny Phantom Ship of Captain Frederick Marryat” / 11:00-11:30
Barbara Braid
Szczecin University, Szczecin, Poland
“The Bizarre Performative Murders in Hannibal” / 11:00-11:30
Adriana Madej-Stang
Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
“If magic had it – two visions of alternate histories of England”
11:30-12:00
Yasemin Bayar
Ege University, İzmir, Turkey
“The Abjects in George Eliot’s Novels: Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner” / 11:30-12:00
Mika Hallila
Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
”Retelling Salome: Asko Sahlberg´s Herodes” / 11:30-12:00
Marzena Zielonka
Opole University, Opole, Poland
“Devourers of Men’s Flesh: Representations of Irish Cannibalism”
12:00-12:30
Marlena Marciniak
Opole University, Opole, Poland
“Manliness, Morality and Ghosts in Victorian tales of the Supernatural” / 12:00-12:30
Agnieszka Jarosz
University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
“A Revision of the Cortazarian Neo-fantasy In Cortázar’s Selected Short Stories” / 12:00-12:30
Murat Akpinar
Ege University, İzmir, Turkey
“England as an Outlandish Place for Immigrants: A Case Study of Small Island by Andrea Levy and A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips”
12:30-13:00
Tomasz Pilch,
Teachers’ Training College, Opole, Poland
“This Uncanny Scrivener; or, Uses and Abuses of Staring at the Wall” / 12:30-13:00
Tadeusz Rachwał
University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
“The Outlandish Utopias. The New Worlds of Constant Nieuwenhuys and Yona Friedman” / 12:30-13:00
Maciej Czerniakowski
John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin, Poland
“The Walking Dead as a Manifestation of the Crisis of American Feeling of Internal Security on the example of H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West – Reanimator
13:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK
TUESDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2014 – AFTERNOON SESSION
SECTION 1
Room: 207
Chair: Marek Błaszak / SECTION 2
Room: 207A
Chair: Stephen Dewsbury
14:00-14:30
Marta Maziarz
College of Philology, Wrocław, Poland
“The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as a Case Study in Freudian Psychoanalysis” / 14:00-14:30
Ryszard Wolny
Opole University, Opole, Poland
God as a Spectre: The Uncanny and the (all-too)Human
14:30-15:00
Fatma Gamze Erkan
Ege University, İzmir, Turkey
“Losing the Identity for a ‘Hyde’ous Reason: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” / 14:30-15:00
Tadeusz Lewandowski
Opole University, Opole, Poland
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo: The Outlandish American Norm
15:00-15:30
Stankiomir Nicieja
Opole University, Opole, Poland
Bizarre Formosa: Cinematic Represetations of Taiwan from the Western Perspective
15:30 CONFERENCE CLOSING