2004 LCMND Conference Program

The 47th Annual Linguistic Circle

of Manitoba & North Dakota Conference

October 23^rd – 24t^h, 2004
The Holiday Inn South, 1330 Pembina Highway (tel. 204-452 4747)
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Saturday, October 23

8.15 - 9.00 Registration and coffee (outside Heron and Gander rooms).

9.00 - 9.15 (Heron) Welcome by Dean Richard Sigurdson, Faculty of Arts, U of Manitoba, and by Enrique Fernandez, President of the LCMND. 

9.15 - 10.45

Session 1A- (Heron) Myths and Narratology.

Chair: Tom Matchie (NDSU).

* Kathleen Dixon (UND). Slavi Trifonov of Bulgaria and Mythic Masculinity.

* Jane L. Huenneke (MSU). The Myth-mongering of Hunter S. Thompson: Images of the Trickster in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

* Xiaoping Evelynne Song (UM). Uses of In/Direct Speech and the First Personal Pronoun in Mo Yan's Novella "Red Sorghum": An Analysis of Narrative Structure. 

Session 1B- (Gander) Literature en Français.

Chair: Elizabeth Dawes (UW)

* Vina Tirvengadum (Athabasca U). Un aperçu de la mystification littéraire en Europe et en France.

* Vincent L. Schonberger (Lakehead U). La préoccupation ontologique et existentialistede Camus dans La Chute.

* Joseph Nnadi (UW). Parole d'adulte, masque d'enfant dans la littérature pour la jeunesse (exemple de Sarang Seck).

10.45 - 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.30

Session 2A- (Heron) Representing Native Americans.

Chair: Robert Kibler (MSU)

* Andrew B. Trump (NDSU). Indians by Arthur Kopit and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson by Robert Altman and Allan Rudolph Onstage and Onscreen Images Considered.

* Ron Fischer (MSU). Rage and Grief in Sherman Alexie’s “Do Not Go Gentle.”

* Tom Matchie (NDSU). Steven Graham Jones's The Bird is Gone: A Surprising Breakthrough In American Indian Literature?

Session 2B- (Gander) New Technologies.

Chair: Christopher Lozensky (MSU)

* Gaby Divay (UM). FPG (Greve / Grove)'s Correspondence with André Gide, 1903-1909: On the French / English eEdition From the UM's Archival Holdings.

* Kristin Lovrien-Meuwese (LARC at San Diego SU). Teaching with Vision: Using Digital Media to Broaden Cultural Understanding and Improve the Four Skills.

* John Robin Allen (UM). jraLexis: a Program to Create Lemmatized Glossaries and Concordances of Texts to Facilitate Learning Vocabulary on an Individual Basis.

12.30 – 2.00 Lunch in area restaurants (there is a restaurant at the Holiday Inn and several restaurants within easy walking distance).

2.00 – 3.30
Session 3A- (Heron) Rereading American Literature.

Chair: Terry Ogden (UM)

* Christopher Lozensky (MSU). Bitchcraft: A Re-reading of the 'Bitch Witches' in The Crucible.

* Bill Cosgrove (NDSU). [Re]Killing Cacciato and [Re]Writing Going After Cacciato.

* Margaret Sherve (MSU). Those Crazy Great Plains:  Vestiges of Insanity in Great Plains’ Memoirs.

Session 3B- (Gander) Lexical Issues.

Chair: Daniel E. Erickson (UND)

* Caitlin McIntyre (UW).Words from Classical Mythology.

* Elizabeth Dawes (UW). All in the Same Boat: the Long Journey of an Idiom.

3.30 - 3.45 Coffee break

3.45 - 5.15

Session 4A- (Heron) English Literature.

Chair: Elizabeth Dawes (UW)

* Terry Ogden (UM). Wordsworth’s Sensory Metaphors.

* Eric Furuseth (MSU). Raising Cain: Performing Byron's "Closet Drama." 

Session 4B- (Gander) Rhetoric, Old and New.

Chair: Enrique Fernandez (UM)

* Daniel E. Erickson (UND). Some Observations on the Portrayal of Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias.

* Karen Malcolm (UW). Car Advertisements: A Barometer of Cultural Stereotypes.

Sunday, October 24

9 - 10. 30
Session 5A- (Heron) Gender in Media and Literature

Chair: Alan MacDonell (UM)

* Michelle M. Sauer (MSU). The Dream of Coming Out on Top: Queer Desire, Commercial Representation, and NBA Basketball.         

* Sarah Aleshire (MSU). "Alluring Siren, Flattering Crocodile”: Auto-feminization and Imposed Subjectivity in Drayton’s “Piers Gaveston.”

Session 5B- (Gander) The Poet's Task.

Chair: Enrique Fernandez (UM)

* Debra Maury (UND). The Artist as Hero: Vicente Huidobro and the Avant-Garde.

* Robert Kibler (MSU). Visions from the East: An Islamic Philosopher, a Chinese Goddess, and the Redemption of Pound’s System of Spiritual Aesthetics in the 1940s.

    * Ben L. Collins (UND). "Achieved Harmony: Imagery As Structure in   Robert  Browning's "Meeting at Night" and "Parting at Morning."

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break

10.45 - 12.15

Session 6A- (Heron) Translation Issues.

Chair: Robert Kibler (MSU)

* Alan MacDonell (UM). Translating English into English: A Canadian Problem.

* Brenda Prai (U de Montreal). The English Translation of the Founding Treaties of the European Union. 

Session 6B- (Gander) Early Modern Spain.

Chair: Chandice Johnson (NDSU, emeritus)

* Enrique Fernández (UM). Anxiety of Interiority in Early Modern Spain.

* Jesús Ángel Miguel García (Spanish Institute of Manitoba). Classification and Social Roles of Judeo-Spanish Musical and Literary Traditions.

12.30. Lunch
at the Holiday Inn Private Banquet Room, main floor,
followed by
2004 LCMND Business Meeting.