E.M. Forster

This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of E. M. Forster’s death. The International E. M. Forster Society has decided to offer its members and all other academics interested in the works of Forster an opportunity to commemorate the anniversary in a publication. We have joined our forces with the academic journal Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and together intend to produce a thematic issue dedicated to Forster. Our plan is to celebrate Forster by publishing a various collection of articles dealing with his work and life. Please, make sure to share this message with your friends and colleagues who might be interested in contributing to our project.
If you do not have an idea for an article but still would like to be a part of our undertaking, you may consider submitting reviews of Forster-related publications.
The schedule is moderately tight as we want to publish the issue in 2020. The deadline for submissions is July 15th, 2020. We will be extremely grateful if you could send in your submissions as soon as possible to allow for smooth processing. The plan is to review, select, and edit the articles during the summer and early autumn so as to be able to meet the intended publication date, at the very least online. The LLSW is an Open Access journal, it is available online, there are no processing or any other fees. All contributors will receive printed copies of the journal, copies will also be sent to several major academic libraries.
Submissions and technical inquiries should be sent to llsw@lingwistyka.edu.pl Notes for contributors are available at http://www.eng.lingwistyka.edu.pl/notes-for-contributors,19.html Any questions may also be sent directly to Prof. Krzysztof Fordoński at k.fordonski@uw.edu.pl

The Editorial Board
Krzysztof Fordoński
Anna Kwiatkowska
Heiko Zimmermann

INTRODUCTION
REPÈRES
E. M. FORSTER, GENESE D’UN PARCOURS : VIVRE OU ECRIRE?
LES PREMIERES ANNEES
CAMBRIDGE
LA GRECE ET L’ITALIE
FORSTER ROMANCIER
BLOOMSBURY
L’INDE ET MAURICE
LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE ET L’ENGAGEMENT POLITIQUE
RETOUR A CAMBRIDGE
L’ŒUVRE ET SON CONTEXTE
HOWARDS END : RESUME
REDACTION ET RECEPTION CRITIQUE
Rédaction
Réception critique
RUPTURES ET CONNEXIONS
LIBERALISME, HUMANISME ET PENSEE ETHIQUE
Les irrégularités du libéralisme
Qualités affectives et morales du choix politique
Le vieux libéralisme et le nouveau
Style singulier, styles pluriels
QUI EST MERCHANT IVORY?
L’HYDRE A TROIS TETES
REPRESENTER L’ANGLETERRE
FIGURE DU CINEMA HERITAGE
THEMES
LA CONDITION DE L’ANGLETERRE
L’ANGLETERRE EN HERITAGE : LES “CONQUERANTS” ET LES ESTHETES
LEONARD BAST ET LE NOUVEAU PARTAGE DES CONDITIONS
LA RESONANCE DU LIEU
LES METAMORPHOSES DE LA SENSIBILITE
HOWARDS END : LE LIEU VIBRANT
LES RELATIONS HOMMES-FEMMES : UNION, DESUNION ET LA QUESTION DU MARIAGE
UN MONDE BINAIRE
L’IMPOSSIBLE RELATION SEXUELLE
LES FEMMES ET LA BEANCE DU SAVOIR
MATERIALISME ET SPIRITUALITE
LE CHARME DE L’INSAISISSABLE
L’ARROGANCE DE L’ESPRIT
LE SENS DES PROPORTIONS
L’IDEALISME ALLEMAND
LA PLACE DU CŒUR
LES MOTS D’ESPRIT
LA CIRCULATION DES BIENS MATERIELS
NARRATION(S) : UNE ESTHETIQUE DE L’ECART ?
DE L’AMBIGUÏTE COMME PRINCIPE STRUCTURANT
“Me, Them and You” [FORSTER, 1953, p. 26]
Un narrateur fiable ?
Ambiguïté et dissensus
TROUBLE, L’ECRITURE FEMININE
La touche féminine
L’amour autre
L’IRONIE FORSTERIENNE
Meeting the comic muse
“Mrs. Munt […] he thought, ‘She rather reminds me of Dolly.’” [p. 164]
“A FAMILY AFFAIR” : LA VEINE AUSTENIENNE
Comédie domestique
“Is not Jane Austen the only woman comedian?” [FORSTER, 2008, p. 68]
DE-CONNEXIONS ET CORRESPONDANCES : LA MUSIQUE DANS HOWARDS END
CONTEXTES : FORSTER ET LA MUSIQUE
DISSONANCES ET DISHARMONIES : LES ENJEUX THEMATIQUES DE LA MUSIQUE DANS HOWARDS END
Du sublime et du comique
Classes sociales et voix discordantes
Musique et clivages culturels et nationaux
LA MUSIQUE COMME PRINCIPE STRUCTUREL DANS HOWARDS END
Les “petites phrases” de Forster : rythme et leitmotive
Dualités et répétitions
MUSIQUE ET ENJEUX ESTHETIQUES DE HOWARDS END
“The muddling of the arts” : “connexions” intermédiales
“Rounding off” ou “opening out” : la coda de Howards End et l’entre-deux forsterien
“NOT ALWAYS DISTINGUISHABLY, ALWAYS INDISTINGUISHABLY” : E. M. FORSTER, VOIR AUTREMENT
“L’ŒIL A BESOIN D’AIDE” [WOOLF, 1993, P. 55]
MACHINES A FAIRE (MAL) VOIR
IMAGES PLATES
LA GRISAILLE CREPUSCULAIRE
FORSTER, ECRIVAIN IMPRESSIONNISTE ?
IMPRESSIONS, HOWARDS END
JAMES IVORY, PEINTRE DE LA VIE MODERNE
MODERNITE 1900
CIRCULATION DES IMAGES
UNE ARTIFICIALITE QUI S’AFFICHE
ENTRE MATERIALISME ET FANTASY FORSTERIENNE
SYNTHESES ET PERSPECTIVES
“LIVE IN FRAGMENTS NO LONGER” : LE TISSU RETICULAIRE DE LA FICTION
CONTINUITES ET INTERRUPTIONS
RETABLIR LE LIEN
LA CARTE ET LE TERRITOIRE
FORSTER, MODERNISTE MALGRE LUI
L’ART POUR L’ART
UNE PERCEPTION INCERTAINE
UN MODERNISTE RETICENT
LE LEGS DE HOWARDS END : REECRITURES ET TRANSPOSITIONS
TROIS TRANSLATIONS/TRANSPOSITIONS DE HOWARDS END
Rencontres, connexions et répétitions
Translations spatiales et temporelles
DE FORSTER A ZADIE SMITH, ALAN HOLLINGHURST ET MATTHEW LOPEZ : ECHOS ET MIROIRS
Jeux de reflets
Intermédialités et intertextualités
L’ENTRELACS DU PASSE ET DU PRESENT
Temporalités non-linéaires
Réseaux et re-connexions
OUTILS
GLOSSAIRE
BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Since Forster’s death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf’s terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical turn at the end of the twentieth century, British literature today seems to go back even more drastically to the figure of the individual human being, and to turn the narrative space into some laboratory of a new form of empowerment of the other’s political autonomy. It is in this context that the references to Forster are more and more frequent, both in British fiction and in academia. This book does not only aim at spotting and theorising this return to Forster today. Rather we endeavour to trace its genealogy and shed light on the successive modes of the legacy, from Forster’s first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) onwards, to the novelisation of Forster himself by Damon Galgut. How can the principle of connection, of correspondences and echoes, which informed Forster’s private life and approach to writing so much, equally characterise the aesthetic and political influence of his oeuvre?

One may as well begin with an invitation:

We would like to invite you to an international scholarly conference on the life and works of E. M. Forster, the first conference to be organised by the International E. M. Forster Society and the second Forsterian conference in Poland. It is our aim to evaluate the presence and legacy of Forster in English literature and social history. The double title of our conference is meant to reflect the duality of our aims – on the one hand, we are interested in Forster’s own works, with a special stress on the less often approached texts. On the other hand, we would like to enquire in the position of Forster, his works, and the values he stood for within British and world culture(s) almost half a century after his demise.

Details in the attached file!

This online database which includes film and stage adaptations of the works of E.M. Forster was prepared for the International E.M. Forster Society by Krzysztof Fordoński and Heiko Zimmermann and it is available at the address in the attached file.

We would like to invite to the second scholarly conference organised by the International E.M. Forster Society, intended as a celebration of E. M. Forster and an opportunity for all Forsterians to come together. Please, read and share the attached call for papers and join us in Ludwigsburg!
Current details always available at the Society's website - check the call for the address!