QUILTING POINTS:

The next meeting for the Quilting Points Reading Group will be in the  Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at 5.15 on Tuesday the 6th of December.  The text under discussion will be Georges Bataille's review of Samuel Beckett's "Molloy". Dr. Claire Lozier (Leeds) will give a short introduction to Bataille's work and its  relation to Samuel Beckett's writing, which will be followed by a general discussion of  the essay as both theory and commentary. Some  wine will be served and people are welcome to bring their own. For a pdf copy of the essay (in English and/or French) or for general comments or expressions of interest (in introducing a thinker or presenting at our seminar series),please contact us: quiltingpoints@gmail.com

Following on from our successful first meeting and, as previously announced, the next meeting of the new James Joyce  Finnegans Wake  Reading Group will be on  Monday 31 st  October  from 5.00 to 6.30 pm in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English.      We’ll be resuming on page 558 line 33 “Where are we at all? And whenabouts in the name of space?” and proceeding to page 562 or thereabouts.        Readers completely new to the  Finnegans Wake  experience will find helpful brief introductions in the chapter “ Finnegans Wake : Novel and Anti-Novel” in  A Companion to James Joyce  (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pages 71-98 and “ Finnegans Wake ” in  James Joyce: A Post-culturalist Perspective  (Macmillan-Palgrave, 1992), pp. 98-122.   Richard Brown  r.h.brown@leeds.ac.uk Arthur Rose  enajr@leeds.ac.uk

The next meeting for the Quilting Points Reading Group will be in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at 5.15 on Tuesday the 15th of November. The text under discussion will be Gilles Deleuze's essay on Samuel Beckett, "The Exhausted" [l'Epuise]. Dr. Ruth Kitchen (Leeds) will give a short introduction to Deleuze's work and its relation to Samuel Beckett's writing, which will be followed by a general discussion of the essay as both theory and commentary. Some wine will be served and people are welcome to bring their own. For a pdf copy of the essay (in English and/or French) or for general comments or expressions of interest (in introducing a thinker or presenting at our seminar series), please contact us: quiltingpoints@gmail.com

The next meeting for the Quilting Points Reading Group will be in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at 5.15 on Tuesday the 25th of October. The text under discussion will be Theodor Adorno's essay on Samuel Beckett's Endgame , "Trying to Understand Endgame " [Versuch, das Endspiel zu verstehen]. Michael Springer (York) will give a short introduction to Adorno's work and its relation to Samuel Beckett's writing, which will be followed by a general discussion of the essay as both theory and commentary. Some wine will be served and people are welcome to bring their own. For a pdf copy of the essay (in English and/or German) or for general comments or expressions of interest (in introducing a thinker or presenting at our seminar series), please contact us: quiltingpoints@gmail.com

      The James Joyce Reading Group in the School of English will be starting off again this semester for 2011-12 in a somewhat different form in response to a number of requests to offer an informal forum for the reading and discussion of Finnegans Wake. We’ll be meeting on the first Monday of the month during term time from 5.00 to 6.30 pm in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English (except for a meeting on October 31 st   instead of November 7 th ).      The first meeting will be Monday 3 rd October.         The plan is to begin with Book Three Chapter Four, starting on page 555 with the line “What was thaas?” and to attempt to get through the whole of that chapter during the year or as much as we can of it. All are welcome whether experienced and confident readers of the Wake or bemused/enthusiastic newcomers.   I’ll bring along Douglas Jefferson’s personal copy to start us off at the firs...

We are happy to invite all interested parties to attend the first meeting of the 2011/2012 Academic Year. The meeting will be in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at 5.15 on Wednesday the 5th of October. The text under discussion will be Maurice Blanchot's review of Samuel Beckett's "The Unnameable". A short introduction to Blanchot's work and its relation to Samuel Beckett's writing will be followed by a general discussion of the value of the review as a theoretical piece in its own right. Some wine will be served and people are welcome to bring their own.  For a pdf copy of the review or for general comments or expressions of interest (in introducing a thinker or presenting at our seminar series), please contact us: quiltingpoints@gmail.com

We are happy to announce a Quilting Points Seminar will take place at 5:30 on Monday 9th May 2011 in the Douglas Jefferson Room at the School of English, University of Leeds. Dr Natalie Diebschlag (Leeds) will be presenting a paper entitled "The 'to come' in post 9/11 British Cinema: Sally Potter's Yes ". All are welcome.   The to come in post 9/11 British cinema: Sally Potter's Yes Written in immediate response to 9/11 and released in the UK shortly after the London bombings in 2005, Sally Potter's film Yes portrays the romantic encounter between a Lebanese surgeon and an Irish-American embryologist in London, Beirut and Cuba. Yes is a statement of hope and a plea for unconditional hospitality which avoids didactic undertones and instead dazzles by its stylised use of language and its unconventional cinematography: the dialogues are written in iambic pentametre and the visual grammar evokes the Joycean stream-of-consciousness. Framed within Jacques Der...