Women’s Writing

Programme of the Seminar

11.15-11.45 Welcome and Introduction

11.45-12.30 Elsi Hyttinen: Whom the Cleft sets apart? Class, gender and a lost script
12.30-13.15 Kirsti Ekonen: Authorship as a literary construct (on the material of the women’s writing in Russian fin de siècle)

13.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.45 Viola Parente-Capkova: The Question of Mimesis in Modernist New Woman Writing: The Case of L. Onerva
14.45-15.30 Kirsi Räisälä: Role of Memory and Body in the Representations of Women’s Experience of War

15.30-15.45 Coffee

15.45-16.30 Urszula Chowaniec: Painful Embodiment: Theorising the “Ruined Body” as a Tool in a Literary Analysis (The Cases of Polish Woman’s Writing in the 1990s)

16.30-17.00 End discussion