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Des liens pourront aussi être mis à jour entre les trois volets de l’œuvre de Kathleen Raine afin d’en montrer la synergie et et de donner à comprendre la cohérence globale de sa vision.
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International conference
A Tribute to Kathleen Raine (1908-2003)
(event postponed due to the health crisis)
Paris
Call for Papers :
The aim of the conference A Tribute to Kathleen Raine is to renew interest in the work of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, fifteen years after her death, a work not to be forgotten, but given due praise and the full prominence it deserves. Kathleen Raine had very strong links with France, which she called “The golden land of the Imagination”. This was the case from her early years onwards, with holidays spent in Brittany, or through her translations of Balzac, her love of Proust, her friendship with Saint John Perse, and finally through the recognition shown so strongly by this country; in 1979 the first volume of her autobiography, “Farewell Happy Fields” in the wonderful translation of François-Xavier Jaujard and Diane de Margerie, was winner of the Meilleur Livre Etranger. In the 1980s, Jaujard’s publishing house gave pride of place to Kathleen Raine’s poetry with the publication of such works as “Isis Wanderer”, “The Year One” and “On a Deserted Shore”, immediately arousing great enthusiasm, and leading to her being awarded the honorary title of “Officier des Arts et des Lettres” by Jack Lang in 1994.
How to explain such admiration from this country which, for her, has been able to preserve the Imagination in the Arts? It is precisely because all throughout her life Kathleen Raine stood up against the prevailing materialism and utilitarianism which seemed to have defeated the great life of the Imagination in Britain. This conference will thus allow us to re-evaluate the significance of the work of Kathleen Raine, and remind us how meaningful it is for the present time. Papers can focus notably on her poetry, which, inspired by the beauty of Nature, expresses the sacred dimension to life; but also on her four volumes of autobiography, if we include “India Seen Afar” (to date never published in French), which recounts the journey of the soul embodied in the materiality of the world, forever searching for lost paradise, and arriving on the shores of Indian spirituality. Her poetical and philosophical essays could also be considered; the spirit of which has been embodied in the founding of the journal Temenos (now Temenos Academy Review), and then the Temenos Academy, in reaction to the English universities which have excluded the Sophia Perennis from their studies.
The relationship could also be brought out between the three domains of Kathleen Raine’s work, in order to show how they complement each other and help us to understand the overall coherence of her vision.
The call for papers is now open.
Comité Scientifique / Scientific Committee:
mise à jour le 16 mars 2021