BAAHE Conference 2025 - Language and literature across the lifespan

Session

Modernist literature

Dec 12, 2025, 1:30 PM

Pedro Arrupe / 103 - PA11 (Locaux Interfacultaires)

Conveners

Modernist literature

• Emma-Louise Silva (Universite de Namur)

16. Children and marine life in Katherine Mansfield’s writing

Imola Nagy-Seres (KU Leuven)

12/12/25, 1:30 PM

Katherine Mansfield’s fiction and personal writings abound in marine life forms: ‘decorative starfish’, ‘velvet sea anemones’, ‘pink tinted sea shells’ – these are just a few of the animals that inhabit her fictional waters. She describes her short story, ‘At the Bay’ (1922) as a kind of literary rock pool, ‘full of sand and seaweed, […] and the tide coming in’ – images based on her own...

6. Rewriting Life Through Memory: Ageing and the Experience of Time in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

Prof. Saliha SEBGAG (University of Mohamed Khider. Biskra /Algeria)

12/12/25, 2:00 PM

This study explores the intricate relationships among memory, ageing, and the perception of time in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925)—a novel that encapsulates an entire life’s journey within the span of a single June day. Utilizing Woolf’s modernist stream-of-consciousness technique, the narrative reveals how Clarissa Dalloway’s present is continually shaped and enriched, yet...

12. Plotting the Lifespan: Emplotment in Interbellum ‘New Biography’ (Strachey’s Queen Victoria and Woolf’s Roger Fry)

Thibaut Goossens

12/12/25, 2:30 PM

The interbellum period witnessed a revolution in life writing, famously dubbed the ‘new biography’ by Virginia Woolf (1927). This movement explicitly sought to break from what Woolf identified as the Victorians’ obsessive adherence to historical facts and their overly reverential treatment of illustrious individuals – an approach strongly marked by Thomas Carlyle’s theory of the ‘great man’ as...

28. Literary Age Group Politics: WW1 Poetry and Beyond

Dr Rudolph Glitz (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

12/12/25, 3:00 PM

Literature does not only reflect, represent, or reveal aspects of age and the life course as conceptualized by a given society, but also affects the latter’s dominant age system through illocutionary forces that either reinforce or destabilize it. In my paper, I trace, firstly, the operation of such forces in a small selection of canonical English poems occasioned by the Great War, namely two...