… seen on the Classicists list:
IRONY AND THE IRONIC IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE
A conference at the University of Exeter
1-4 September 2009
Booking is now open for this exciting conference. For more details, including registration forms, costs and a full conference programme, visit http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/classics/conferences or contact either of the conference organizers, Dr Matthew Wright (M.Wright AT exeter.ac.uk) and Dr Karen Ní Mheallaigh (K.Ni-Mheallaigh AT exeter.ac.uk). The final date for booking is MONDAY 27 JULY.
Speakers and topics:
* Eran Almagor (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): ‘Irony and the Unreliable Narrator in Plutarch’s Lives’
* Sarah Bolmarcich (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities): ‘Didactic irony in Thucydides’
* James Brusuelas (University of California, Irvine): ‘An ironic continuum: ancient and modern ironic discourse in Lucian’s Nekyomanteia’
* David Engels (Université Libre de Bruxelles): ‘Irony and Plato’s Menexenus’
* Philip Etherington (King’s College, London): ‘Levels of understanding in Philostratus’ Imagines’
* Vivienne Gray (University of Auckland): ‘The ironical Xenophon’
* Joseph Howley (University of St Andrews): ‘Irony and miscellany: the table of contents of the Noctes Atticae’
* Domenico Lembo (Università "Federico II" di Napoli): ‘Between eironeia and irony’
* Marko Marinčič (University of Ljubljana): ‘Irony and Alexandrianism’
* Damien Nelis (Université de Genève): ‘Irony in Catullus 64’
* Karen Ní Mheallaigh (University of Exeter): ‘Irony and narrative.’
* Dennis Pausch (University of Giessen): ‘Instruction or entertainment? Livy narrates the reign of Romulus’
* Ian Ruffell (University of Glasgow): ‘Character, plot or stance? Irony in ancient comic theory and practice’
* Marios Skempis (University of Basel): ‘Ironic Demarcation: Declaring Lyric Identity in Bacchylides 17’
* Isabelle Torrance (Notre Dame University, Indiana): ‘Intertextual irony in Euripides: who got it?’
* Catherine Ware (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): ‘Claudian’s Praise of the Emperor Honorius’
* Michael Stuart Williams (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): ‘Empsonian Irony in Augustinian Africa’
* Matthew Wright (University of Exeter): ‘The birth of irony’
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