The
Reception
of
Oscar Wilde
in
Europe

Trinity College, Oxford

8th-9th March 2008
This conference is sponsored by the English Faculty, Oxford University; For Trinity College, click here
For more information from Stefano Evangelista, conference convenor, click here

PROGRAMME
Saturday 8 March  
10.15 Opening
10.30-11.30 French Reception — Chair: Stephen Bann (Bristol)
 
  • Emily Eells (Université de Paris 10 - Nanterre): 'Two Tombeaux to Oscar Wilde : Raymond Laurent and Jean Cocteau'
  • Richard Hibbitt (Leeds): ‘The artist as aesthete: the social reception of Wilde in France’
11.30-1.00 Wilde in Print and on the Stage in Ireland, Denmark, and Austria — Chair: John Stokes (King's College, London)
 
  • Noreen Doody (St. Patrick’s College, Dublin): ‘The Reception of Wilde in Ireland’
  • Lene Østermark-Johansen (Copenhagen): ‘Wilde in Denmark and Scandinavia’
  • Sandra Mayer (Vienna): ‘When Critics Disagree the Artist Survives – Oscar Wilde: An All-Time Favourite of the Viennese Stage in the Twentieth Century’
1.00-2.30 Lunch and editorial meeting
Editorial Meeting (SCR) --commissioned contributors only
Chair: Dr Elinor Shaffer, FBA (Series Editor: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London)
2.30-4.00 The Early Reception in Italy and Spain — Chair: John Sloan (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)
 
  • Elisa Bizzotto (Venice): ‘“Children of Pleasure”: Oscar Wilde and the D’Annunzio Circle’
  • Rita Severi (Verona): ‘Astonishing in my Italian’: Oscar Wilde’s First Italian Editions
  • Richard Cardwell (Nottingham): ‘Madman, Martyr and Maudit: Oscar Wilde and the Spanish fin de siècle’
4.00-4.30 Tea
4.30-6.00 Parallel Sessions (1 and 2)

1. The Wildean Legacy in Other Media — Chair: Mark Turner (King's College, London)
2. The Wilde Myth on the Continent — Chair: Lene Østermark-Johansen (Copenhagen)
  • Xavier Giudicelli (Reims): ‘Illustration and Reception: the French Illustrated Editions of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1910-2003)’
  • Annabel Rutherford (York University, Toronto): ‘Seducing the Audience, Confounding the Censor: Oscar Wilde’s Influence on the Creation of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes’
  • Jodi-Anne George and Brian Hoyle (Dundee): ‘Wilde’s Cinematic Legacy: Three European Film Versions of Salome’
  • Lucia Krämer (Regensburg): ‘Oscar Wilde’s Fictional Lives’
  • Richard A. Kaye (City University of New York): ‘Wilde and the Rhetoric of Martyrdom: Hofmannsthal, Mirbeau, Proust, and the Making of a Twentieth-Century Saint’
  • Cristina Cheveresan (Timisoara): ‘No Man Is an Island: Oscar Wilde at the Heart of the Continent’

6.00-7.00 Czech and Russian Modernism — Chair: Philip Bullock (Wadham College, Oxford)
 
  • Zdenek Beran (Charles University, Prague): ‘Wilde and Czech Decadence’
  • Evgenii Bershtein (Reed College): "Next to Christ": Oscar Wilde in Russian Modernism
7.00 Wine Reception
8.00 Dinner at a local restaurant
Sunday 9 March  
9.30-11.00 Parallel Sessions (3 and 4)

3. Individual reactions to Wilde — Chair: D.C. Rose (THE OSCHOLARS)
4. Wilde and the Postmodern Condition — Chair: Emily Eells (University de Paris X - Nanterre)
  • Sarah Ekdawi (Oxford): ‘“I Walked with Other Souls in Pain”: Oscar Wilde’s Imprisonment and Cavafy’s Prison Metaphors’
  • Ignacio Ramos Gay (Castilla-La Mancha): ‘Embodying the Wildean Myth: Luis Antonio de Villena’
  • Graham Price (University College Dublin): ‘“The Dandy’s Holiday”: Wildean Echoes in John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun’
  • Victoria Reid (University of Glasgow): ‘André Gide’s Homage to Oscar Wilde of 1902, or the Tale of Judas’.
  • Claudia Doroholschi (Timisoara): ‘Performing, Reading and Blogging Wilde: the Wilde Myth in Today’s Romania’
  • Dennis Ioffe (Amsterdam): ‘The St Petersburg “neo-Decadents” and the Myth of Oscar Wilde’

11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 Wilde’s Stage Reception in Greece, Spain, and Croatia — Chair: Stefano Evangelista
 
  • Emmanuel Vernadakis (Angers): ‘An Outline of Oscar Wilde's Reception in Greece’
  • Marta Mateo (Oviedo): ‘The Beginnings of Wilde’s Performance History in Spain: Ricardo Baeza’s Translations and Early Theatre Productions’
  • Irena Grubica (Rijeka): ‘The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Croatia’
1.00 End of Conference
This conference is sponsored by the English Faculty, Oxford University; For Trinity College, click here
For more information from Stefano Evangelista, conference convenor, click here