HAPPY ENDINGSin Literature and Film

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23 et 24 janvier 2009Responsables scientifiques:armelle Parey ; isabelle roblinContacts:armelle.parey@unicaen.fr isabelle.roblin@univ-littoral.fr

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Workshop 1: Children’s Literature: Fairy Tales Revisited(room SH 125), 13.30-17.00

Chair: Isabelle Roblin (Littoral-Côte d’opale)Audrey Doussot (Bourgogne) Last Words, Last Pictures: The Visual Transcription of the Happy Ending in Victorian Illustrated Fairy TalesIsobel Heald (Angers) ‘All’s well that ends well’ - Tragi-Comic Irony in Wilde’s Tales.Virginie Douglas (Rouen) Are Children’s Books Bound to End Happily? The Example of a Few Recent British Novels

Chair: Virginie Douglas (Rouen)Isabelle Roblin (Littoral-Côte d’opale) ‘Arabian Nights Plus One’: Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)Timothy Mason (Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want ...’ Terry Pratchett’s Subversions of the Happy EndingNicolas Labarre (Rennes 2) In Wait of the (Super) Happy End

break 15.00-15.30 /

9.15 Registration and Coffee

9.30 Denis Jacquet (Directeur-Adjoint de la MRSH)

keynote speakeRs 9.45 Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawaii, Manoa) To What Ends? Happy Endings Revised in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Fiction and Film

10.40-11.05 Coffee

11.05 Nicholas Tucker (University of Sussex) Happy Endings in Children’s Literature

12.00-13.30 Lunch on the campus (RU A)

FRIDAY MORNING(room 005)

FRIDAY

Workshop 3:Rom-Coms, or the art of devious Happy Endings

(room 005) 13.30- 17.45chair: Shannon Wells-Lassagne (Bretagne Sud)

James MacDowell (Warwick, UK) Does the Hollywood ‘Happy Ending’ Exist? Serge Chauvin (Paris X) And they lived happily ever after... or did they? Marriage as a False Ending in Hollywood Romantic Comedies and Female Gothic Films Manuela Ruiz (Zaragoza, Spain) ‘Not Quite the End’: The Boundaries of Narrative Closure in Hollywood Romantic ComedyCelestino Delayto (Zaragoza, Spain) Tales of the Millennium (Park): The Happy Ending and the Magic Cityscape of Contemporary Romantic ComedyTaina Tuhkunen (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) The Pursuit of Happiness in Contemporary Ame-rican RomComs : Ending in Bliss in Rob Reiner’s When Harry Meets Sally (1989) and Nancy Meyers’s The Holiday (2006)

Workshop 2: Representations of Happy Endings in 19th-Century Fiction

(room 006) 13.30- 17.00

Chair: Laurent Bury (Lyon 2)Suzanne Fraysse (Aix-Marseille) ‘Happiness not unmixed with sorrow of a very touching kind’: the Ends of Antebellum Slave NarrativesNatalie Gomez Handford (Madrid) The Economics of Love: Marriage and the Prospects of a Large Estate in the Novels of Jane AustenGilbert Pham-Thanh (Paris XIII) Happy Endings in 19th-century Fashionable Novels: Text and Subtext

Chair : Armelle Parey (Caen)Laurent Bury (Lyon II) Sweetmeats and Sugar-Plums: Trollope’s (un)Happy EndingsAnne-Claire Le Reste (Rennes 2) ‘Call it marry, if you like’: Henry James’s Nuptial Endings Jean-Michel Yvard (Angers) on William Hale White (« Mark Rutherford »)

Dinner 20.00 Restaurant “La petite marmite”

AFTERNOON

23 et 24 janvier 2009

Chair: Armelle Parey (Caen) Jakob Winnberg (Växjö, Sweden) ‘Here We Are Let Loose in Open Fields’: Happy Endings and Hopeful Prospects in Postmodernist Fiction Hélène Fau (Centre écritures, Metz)Happy are those who end up in light. In the light of (happy) endings in Jeanette Winterson’s novelsMonica Latham (Nancy)Sad, but Happy Endings: Jeannette Winterson’s Variations on Conjugal HappinessBreak

Chair: Jakob Winnberg (Växjö, Sweden)Nicole Terrien (Rouen) Happily Ever after by Jenny Diski or how to start with the endingMaria-José Chivite de León (La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain) Love and Alterity: Rewriting Happy Endings in M. Warner’s IndigoArmelle Parey (Caen) Who’s Afraid of Happy Endings? Reflections on a Few Contemporary Novels

Chair: Dominique Sipière (Paris X-Nanterre)

Ariane Hudelet (Paris VII-Denis Diderot) ‘I’d rather be watching Jane Austen’: Enhancing Wish

Fulfilment in the ‘Austen films’Shannon Wells-Lassagne (Bretagne Sud)

Heritage and Happy Endings: Adapting to Audience Expectations

Break

Samuel Minne (Independent scholar) Gay/Happy Ending: Class, Egoism and Happiness

in Maurice by Forster and Ivory

Laëtitia Lefèvre-Thierry (Caen) Oscar Micheaux: Behind His Happy Endings

8.45 Coffee10.30-11.00 Break12.30-14.00 Lunch

(Café Mancel)

Workshop 1: Challenging Happy Endings in the 20th and 21st-Century Novel (I)

SATURDAY MORNING(room 006)9.00-12.30

Workshop 2: Heritage and Minorities in Film

SATURDAY MORNING(room 005)9.00-12.30

Chair: Véronique Alexandre (Caen)Claudia Alonso Recarte (Complutense, Madrid)

‘In the Lower Frequencies I Speak for You’: Happy Endings in the Blues Discourse

and Its Reflection in LiteratureYannicke Chupin (Franche-Comté)

Happy Endings and Storytelling in the Late 1960sLynn Blin (Montpellier 3)

End Wait – Or How Coordinate Structures Participate in the ‘Happy Ending’ of Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth

break 15.30-16.00

Chair: Isabelle Roblin (Littoral-Côte d’opale)Eddy Chevalier (Paris-Sud 11)

‘Believe in Happy Endings’: Danielle Steel’s Sugar-Coating of RealityVeronique Alexandre (Caen)

‘I share this with the Reaper: happy endings’. Robert Coover’s Vibrantly Unconventional and Imperious Voice in Stepmother

SATURDAYAFTERNOON(room 006)14.00-16.30

Workshop 1:Challenging Happy Endings in the 20th

and 21st-Century Novel (II)Chair: Ariane Hudelet (Paris VII-Diderot)

Dominique Sipière (Paris X-Nanterre) How Do You Mean, Happy? Characters, Spectators and Text in Hollywood (Huston, Lubitsch and Hitchcock)Ronan Ludot-Vlazak (Grenoble 3) Woody Allen’s Impossible Tragedy: Tragic Expectations and Happy Ending in Match Point

break (15.30-16.00)

Marimar Azcona (Zaragoza, Spain) Precarious Teleologies: New Endings for a New Genre

SATURDAYAFTERNOON(room 005)14.00-16.45

Workshop 2: Happy Endings in Cinéma d’auteur