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Georgia Philological Association

Fourth Annual Meeting

Brewton-Parker College, Mount Vernon, Georgia

April 3-4, 2009

 

Friday, April 3

Registration and Refreshments             Morgan-Moses Math & Science Lobby    

                                                                                                       8-10 a.m.

 

All sessions will be held in the Herbert A. Saliba Memorial Chapel.

 

FIRST SESSION                                                                        9-10:15 a.m.

Norse Mythology and Anglo-Saxon Literature

“The Eye of Oðinn:  Death and Poetry in Norse Mythology”

                                                                     Timothy Hannon, U of Georgia

“A Monster Reconsidered:  An Etymological Investigation of the Orcneas of Beowulf”

                                                                           Phil Purser, Georgia State U

“Iúmonna Gléow Galdre Bewunden:  Days of Yore and the Shaping of Anglo-Saxon Creative Imagination”

                                                                           Joseph Leake, U of Georgia

 

SECOND SESSION                                                             10:30-11:45 a.m.

Novels

“Don Chipote:  A Minor Don Quixote”

                                                                          Kevin Brown, U of Alabama

“Gender and Genre in Mickey Spillane’s Vengeance is Mine”

                                                         Heather Duerre Humann, U of Alabama

 “On Writing ‘The Book of Love’:  Nabokov’s Lolita and Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera as Self-Reflexive Metafictions”

                                                                    David Buehrer, Valdosta State U

 

THIRD SESSION                                                                    12-12:45 p.m.

Dramatic Literature

“Exposing the Paradox:  The Problems of the Label ‘Folk Drama’”

                                                                    Amber Estlund, Georgia State U

“The Profanity of Auschwitz and the Restoration of the Sacred:  A Process of Healing in George Tabori’s The Cannibals”

                                                                       Catherine Riccio, U of Georgia

 

BUFFET LUNCHEON and PLENARY ADDRESS                    1-2:30 p.m.

Address

“A Backward Glance over Some Main-Traveled and Less-Traveled Academic Roads”

                         Benjamin F. Fisher IV, Professor of English, U of Mississippi

 

FOURTH SESSION                                                                    2:45-4 p.m.

Medieval and Renaissance Literature

“The Dawning of a (Somewhat) New Devil:  The All-too-human Dialogical and Diabolical Malefactor”

                                                                               Will Abney, U of Georgia

“PC Wars:  Revisiting The Taming of the Shrew”

                                                Mary Hjelm, U of South Carolina Extended U

“Spenser’s Veue of Ireland, A Paradox:  His Lesser Works and English Nationalism”

                                                        Kathleen DeMarco, Georgia Perimeter C

 

FIFTH SESSION                                                                     4:15-5:30 p.m.

Haunting Fiction’s House: Perspectives on Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House

“‘Whatever walked here, walked alone’:  What is Haunting Shirley Jackson’s Hill House?”

                                                            Melanie R. Anderson, U of Mississippi

“‘Journeys end in lovers meeting’:  Narrative in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House”

                                                  Lorraine Dubuisson, Middle Georgia College

“House of Leaves:  A Postmodern Retelling of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House”

                                                                          Lisa Kröger, U of Mississippi

 

SIXTH SESSION                                                                     5:45-6:30 p.m.

Poetics

“‘Yeats in the London spring half-spent, only the grand gift in his head’:  Myth-Making, Loss, and the Search for an Alternative Poetics in John Berryman’s The Dream Songs”

                                                            Kristina Marie Darling, Washington U

“Figure and Substance:  The Poetics of Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino”

                                                                Scott Wilkerson, Columbus State U

A list of evening dining options is provided in each attendee’s convention packet.

Saturday, April 4

Refreshments                                      Morgan-Moses Math & Science Lobby                   

                                                                                                7:45-8:30 a.m.

 

SEVENTH SESSION                                                                 8:45-10 a.m.

Male Authors through Time:  Jorge de Montemayor, Gabriel García Márquez, and Manuel Rivas.  The Creation of the Feminine/Feminist Space

“What It Takes to be Queen:  The Exaltation/Objectification of the Shepherdess in Spain’s Early-Modern Pastoral Romances”

                                          Benjamin J. Nelson, U of South Carolina-Beaufort

“Memorias de mis putas tristes:  Not the Whore Story”

                                             James M. Griesse, U of South Carolina-Beaufort

“La creacíon del espacio femenino:  En salvaje compañía, Ella, maldita alma y Las llamadas perdidas”

                                                        Ana-Maria Touza Medina, U of Houston

EIGHTH SESSION                                                                  10:15-11 a.m.

Grammar and Linguistics

“A Mere Dispute of Words:  Webster and the Reformists”

                                                                                 Jenn Blair, U of Georgia

“Of Words and Their Plurals I Sing”

                                                                        Matt Brown, Valdosta State U

NINTH SESSION                                                               11:15-12:30 p.m.

Autobiographical Literary Studies

“Mary Rowlandson and Stockholm Syndrome”

                                                                    Barbara Hunt, Columbus State U

“(Re)Inventing Origins:  How the Migrant Autobiographer (Re)Imagines Homelands”

                                                                      Shane Wilson, Valdosta State U

“Half of What I Know:  The Autobiographical Impulse in Chris Offutt’s The Same River Twice”

                 Katherine Edwards, independent scholar, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

 

LUNCHEON BREAK                                                               12:30-2 p.m.

 

TENTH SESSION                                                                  2:15-3:30 p.m.

History

“Oak and Stone and the Permanent Things:  Some Reflections on Edmund Burke’s Becket”

                                                                        Ian Crowe, Brewton-Parker C

“Paternalism in a Postbellum Kingdom:  Patrick Hues Mell and the Ties That Bind”

                                                                   Mary Waalkes, Brewton-Parker C

“Two Little Confederates:  Dr. E. Merton Coulter and Robert Penn Warren”

                                                                     Jeffery Wells, Georgia Military C

 

ELEVENTH SESSION                                                               3:45-5 p.m.

English Literature

“Sentimental Hero or Sap?  The Figure of Heartfree in Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild”

                                                                 George Mosley, Brewton-Parker C

“Returning Humanity to Morality:  Definitions of Morality in the Romantic Era”

                                                                     Kathryn Royston, U of Georgia

“Matthew Arnold’s Medievalism, or a Harbinger of Modernism”

                                  Warren Kelly, St. Andrew’s School, Boca Raton, Florida

 

TWELFTH SESSION                                                              5:15-6:30 p.m.

Southern Literature

“ Hop, Skip, Jump: Adaptation from, Appropriation from, and Allusion to Edgar Allan Poe's ‘Hop-Frog’ in the films Fool's Fire and Masque of the Red Death ”

                                                                Gareth H. Jones, Brewton-Parker C

“Eudora Welty’s ‘Ida M’Toy’”                           

                             John Soward Bayne, independent scholar, Atlanta, Georgia

“Permanent Inversion:  Flannery O’Connor’s Carnivalesque”

                                                                Shannon R. Finck, Georgia State U

 

 

 

 
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