Inmaculada Illanes (University of Seville) will lead this conference next Monday 4 April at 15:00 at the Espai Cultural in the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication.
- Organised by: Department of French and Italian (UV)
- With the collaboration of: Research Group GIUV2013-144: HYBRIDA / CIPIS / Institut Français
- Coordinated and presented by: Domingo Pujante (UV)
The Department of French and Italian launched a call for grants this 2021–2022 academic year to carry out a Franco-Italian series of conferences in order to promote the participation of specialists from France and Italy so that they could complete the student’s training and create synergy between both areas of knowledge. In this frame, the Research Group GIUV2013-144 HYBRIDA (Cultural hybridisations and migrant identities) has the pleasure to welcome Professor Inmaculada Illanes, from the University of Seville. This activity is offered to the university community through the Cultural Week programme of the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication, with the support of the Institut Français.
The conference on ‘Humour and fantasy in Bernard Quiriny novels’ proposes a unique approach to the collection of short stories by the Belgian author, who has published five anthologies between 2005 and 2019. The aim is to try to unlock the keys to a writing that can be described as mestizo, freely combining the joy of imagination and the diversity of inspiration and influences, as well as a significant dose of humour and irony. As a theoretical basis for this analysis, Professor Illanes draws on the keys to postmodern writing described by Marc Gontard, a specialist in Francophone literature, in his book Écrire la crise. L’esthétique postmoderne (2013). Later, he will focus on the renewal of the Fantastique genre through humour and the hybridisation of the so-called extrême contemporain literature, taking up the concept of the novelist Michel Chaillou (1989).
Inmaculada Illanes Ortega is an Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Seville, and member of the Literature-Image-Translation Research Group. Her works on French contemporary narrative (19th–21st centuries) are articulated around three main axes: short stories, the Fantastique genre and the relationship between writing and image, based on the work of different authors.
