Elizabeth Geary Keohane
I completed my PhD in French Studies at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. My doctoral thesis was entitled 'Textualising Travel in André Gide and Henri Michaux' and was funded by the IRC (formerly IRCHSS). Before that, I undertook a M. Phil in Textual & Visual Studies (French) at TCD, completing an Erasmus semester at the Université de Paris 7, France, and a BA (Hons) in English Literature and French at TCD.
I was a postgraduate teaching assistant at TCD 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2010-2011 and Sept-Nov 2012, before taking up a lecturing post at St. Patrick's College Drumcondra, DCU, Ireland, Nov 2012-June 2013. In 2011-2012, I was a maître de langue at the Université d'Orléans, France.
In November 2012, I was appointed as a Senior Research Associate (ending 2015) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. I was a sessional lecturer in French at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada from September 2013 to April 2015. In June 2015, I was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University, Canberra, followed by a year as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of French at TCD. I am currently a Research Associate in the School of Humanities, University of Dundee, and will join the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow for the 2016-2017 academic year.
In my spare time I write fiction.
I was a postgraduate teaching assistant at TCD 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2010-2011 and Sept-Nov 2012, before taking up a lecturing post at St. Patrick's College Drumcondra, DCU, Ireland, Nov 2012-June 2013. In 2011-2012, I was a maître de langue at the Université d'Orléans, France.
In November 2012, I was appointed as a Senior Research Associate (ending 2015) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. I was a sessional lecturer in French at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada from September 2013 to April 2015. In June 2015, I was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University, Canberra, followed by a year as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of French at TCD. I am currently a Research Associate in the School of Humanities, University of Dundee, and will join the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow for the 2016-2017 academic year.
In my spare time I write fiction.
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emulate the visitor’s passage through an exhibition space. Butor thus creates what will be termed, following James A.W. Heffernan, a ‘museum of words’, ‘a gallery of art constructed
by language alone’. In arguing that the museum space informs the structure as much as the content of Les Mots dans la peinture, my article also offers insights into the work's interrogation both of ekphrasis and the role of illustration. Moreover, this piece’s sensitivity to Butor’s poetic endeavours and experimentation with the essay form, as well as to his thoughts on the interconnected activities of writing, reading, and travelling, further challenges the way in which the aesthetic value of Les Mots dans la peinture in its own right has long been overlooked.
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This paper considers André Gide’s approach later in life to travel and writing up the travel experience, specifically in the interwar period, during which Voyage au Congo, Le Retourdu Tchad, Retour de l’U.R.S.S. and Retouches à mon Retour de l’U.R.S.S. all appeared. It suggests that Gide’s conception of travel evolves with age, as travel becomes for him a process which has the potential to enable renewal and rejuvenation, as much as it represents a search for the new (understood, in the context of Gide’s travel-based work, in terms of the exotic, the supposed antonym of the everyday). Gide’s evolving approach to travel and travel writing during the interwar period will be explored in the light of his understanding and interrogation of the aging process and his own mortality. The shift that can be detected between the West Africa narratives and the texts on the Soviet Union will be understood as a stylistic as well as a formal development; Edward Said’s posthumous work On Late Style informs this element of the paper. Debating the effect of looking back on one’s work in order to sustain and inspire further artistic production in the face of one’s demise, Said might also be seen to delineate the figure of the aging traveller-writer, in speaking of the ‘increasing sense of apartness and exile and anachronism, which late style expresses and, more important, uses to formally sustain itself’. Gide, for example, attempts to maintain a sense of apartness as well as a physical and ultimately ideological ‘exile’ in his interwar travel-based writings. Indeed, he will also be seen to resist aging through frequent invocation of his early travel-based works of the fin-de-siècle, whether focused on real or imagined travel, in these later texts. This jarring effect will be explored in detail, especially in relation to the 'progression' that is supposedly central to the traveller-writer’s creative project."
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Book Reviews by Elizabeth Geary Keohane
emulate the visitor’s passage through an exhibition space. Butor thus creates what will be termed, following James A.W. Heffernan, a ‘museum of words’, ‘a gallery of art constructed
by language alone’. In arguing that the museum space informs the structure as much as the content of Les Mots dans la peinture, my article also offers insights into the work's interrogation both of ekphrasis and the role of illustration. Moreover, this piece’s sensitivity to Butor’s poetic endeavours and experimentation with the essay form, as well as to his thoughts on the interconnected activities of writing, reading, and travelling, further challenges the way in which the aesthetic value of Les Mots dans la peinture in its own right has long been overlooked.
Link: http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Journals/wph/vol9/5.%20Geary%20Keohane.pdf
Article on open access at following link:
http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/voixplurielles/article/view/1099
This paper considers André Gide’s approach later in life to travel and writing up the travel experience, specifically in the interwar period, during which Voyage au Congo, Le Retourdu Tchad, Retour de l’U.R.S.S. and Retouches à mon Retour de l’U.R.S.S. all appeared. It suggests that Gide’s conception of travel evolves with age, as travel becomes for him a process which has the potential to enable renewal and rejuvenation, as much as it represents a search for the new (understood, in the context of Gide’s travel-based work, in terms of the exotic, the supposed antonym of the everyday). Gide’s evolving approach to travel and travel writing during the interwar period will be explored in the light of his understanding and interrogation of the aging process and his own mortality. The shift that can be detected between the West Africa narratives and the texts on the Soviet Union will be understood as a stylistic as well as a formal development; Edward Said’s posthumous work On Late Style informs this element of the paper. Debating the effect of looking back on one’s work in order to sustain and inspire further artistic production in the face of one’s demise, Said might also be seen to delineate the figure of the aging traveller-writer, in speaking of the ‘increasing sense of apartness and exile and anachronism, which late style expresses and, more important, uses to formally sustain itself’. Gide, for example, attempts to maintain a sense of apartness as well as a physical and ultimately ideological ‘exile’ in his interwar travel-based writings. Indeed, he will also be seen to resist aging through frequent invocation of his early travel-based works of the fin-de-siècle, whether focused on real or imagined travel, in these later texts. This jarring effect will be explored in detail, especially in relation to the 'progression' that is supposedly central to the traveller-writer’s creative project."