Keynotes
Esther Leslie, ‘Seeing Through a Glass Obscurely’
Ian Patterson, ‘The Obscurers Who Hated Obscurity’
Panel 1: Difficulty and Form
Kristin Grogan, ‘Silence Sounded Suddenly: the Obscure Sounds of the Late Cantos’
Rona Lorimer, ‘”A Cathedral of Erotic Misery”: Clutter and Obscurity in Barnes’ Nightwood’
Panel 2: Pseudoscience and the Esoteric
Sam Dolbear, ‘Triskaidekaphobic Modernism: Fate, Death, and Numerology’
Sami Sjöberg, ‘Pataphysics: Literary Encounters at the Edge of Science’
Panel 3: The Field of Cultural Production and the Institutions of Art
Tom Bamford, ‘Private and Public Heterogeneities: Secrecy and Elitism in Bataille’
Chris Mourant, ‘Biting the Apple: Olive Moore and Beatrice Hastings’
Panel 4: Obscure Modernists
Charlotte Jones, ‘Arnold Bennett and the Abstruse, or, Why realism is more obscure than modernism’
Carole Sweeney, ‘Difficult Customers: Christine Brook-Rose and Brigid Brophy’
Nathan Waddell, ‘Lawrence Atkinson, the “vorticist artist of whom England [has] never heard”‘
