Parallel Sessions
Irish Patrimonies
Chair: David Dwan
Christopher Fauske (
Salem
College, Mass.
):
The Bishop, his son, the poetry, the prose
David Fitzpatrick (TCD):
“I will acquire an attitude not yours”
: Was Frederick John MacNeice a Home Ruler, and why does this matter?’
Nicholas Allen (
University
of
North Carolina
at
Chapel
Hill
):
Autumn’s Ghosts: Jack Yeats and Ernie O’Malley
Other
Countries
Chair: John Goodby (Swansea)
Tom
Herron (Leeds Metropolitan):
In search of Ireland … in the Hebrides: I Crossed the Minch
Maria
Johnston (TCD):
“This endless land”: MacNeice’s America as an Important Elsewhere
Konstantina
Georganta (
Glasgow
University
):
Louis & the Modern Greek Encounter
Precursors
Chair: Matt Campbell (Sheffield)
Brian
Arkins (NUI Galway):
Greek and Roman Themes in MacNeice
Richard
D. Brown (Open University):
O Master Pedlar: MacNeice & Shakespeare
Guinn
Batten (Washington University, St
Louis):
MacNeice & Romantic crisis-autobiography
Modernism
& Mobility
Chair: Julian Patrick (Toronto)
Neil
Jones (
Oxford University
):
The impact of Modernism on MacNeice’s early poetic development
Simon
Ward (
Aberdeen University
):
Corner Seat: MacNeice’s mobile modern subject
Hugh
Haughton (
York University
):
MacNeice's Vehicles
Conor
Carville (St Mary’s, Strawberry Hill):
‘“Both Brute & Ghost”: MacNeice’s spectral materialism
Autumn Journal
Chair: Nicholas Allen (North Carolina)
Michael
Thurston (Smith College, Mass.):
“Damn My Skin and Save My Conscience”: Irony & commitment in Autumn Journal
Ben
Clarke (East Carolina University):
‘“The equation will come out at last”: MacNeice & the narration of
history’
Katie
Fleming (Queen Mary, University
of London):
“It was all so unimaginably different”: Antiquity in Autumn Journal
Reputation & Reception
Chair: Peter Mackay (QUB)
Anne
Margaret Daniel (
New
School University
,
NYC):
“The ladies would say that he looked like a poet”: Tom & the selling of Louis
Val
Nolan (NUI Galway):
MacNeice & the Faber poets photograph
Renata
Senktas (
University
of
Warsaw
):
It starts to snow: Reception of MacNeice in Poland
MacNeice
& Other Arts
Chair: Philip McGowan (QUB)
Katherine
Firth (Oxford Brookes):
“Queen of the boys”: Hedli Anderson & the “Auden Gang”
Tom
Walker (Lincoln College,
Oxford):
“Even a still life is alive”: MacNeice & Visual Art
Karen
Brown (QUB):
"Poems after a Painting"
: MacNeice, Yeats & Durcan in the
National Gallery of Ireland’
Charles
Armstrong (University
of Bergen):
Out of the Museum: MacNeice & the Confines of Aesthetic Space
Art & Politics
Chair: Dillon Johnston (St Louis)
Antony
Shuttleworth (Ohio
State University):
Out of the Pictures: MacNeice’s art of the Thirties
Seth
Martin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):
“A rather agreeable nightmare”
: Narratives of disintegration & the
sinister in Zoo
Peter
Golphin (Open University):
“Propaganding”: Radio & Poetry in the early 1940s
Damien
Keane (University of Buffalo-SUNY):
Cross-fade of Silence to Stillness: MacNeice’s “The Unoccupied Zone”
Changing Aesthetics
Chair: Michael Allen (QUB)
Simon
Workman (TCD):
“Not matching pictures but inventing sound”: MacNeice & auditory imagination
Kit Fryatt (TCD):
‘“The paradox of a sentimentalist”: Reassessing MacNeice’s middle stretch
Alan
Gillis (
Edinburgh
University
):
“As if I had known you”: MacNeice’s “All Over Again”
Contemporaries & Successors
Chair: Leontia Flynn (QUB)
Andrew J. Browne (NUI
Galway
):
Newspapers or Surrealism? MacNeice’s reading of Beckett
John Goodby (
Swansea
University
):
“Bulbous Taliesin”: MacNeice & Dylan Thomas
Stephen Regan (
Durham
University
):
MacNeice & Philip Larkin
Rui Carvalho Homem (
University of Porto
):
“Degrees of being alive’: MacNeice, drama & contemporary Northern Irish poets
