LCMND's 37th Conference: 1994 Proceedings vol. 34
LCMND: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota


LCMND Proceedings
pdf 2011: volume 34 /1994



Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle's Thirty-Seventh Conference
October 28th & 29th, 1994
Winnipeg

Hosted by the University of Winnipeg
at the Downtown Marlborough Hotel (Day's Inn)



iv, 48 p.
Cover: red
Published for the LCMND by Century Creations Printing Services, Grand Forks, ND 58201.
ISSN 0075-9597

1994 LCMND Officers:
President: Neil Besner, UW; Vice-President: Harold Smith, Minot SU;
Past-President: Kenneth E.Hall, UND; Secretary-Treasurer: Gaby Divay, UM

Editor of LCMND Proceedings: Theodore Messenger, UND.
Honorary Presidents:
Mary Ellen Caldwell, UND; Ben L. Collins, UND & Creighton University; Louis Palanca, UND;
J. B. Rudnyckyj, UM;Walter Swayze, UW.

Opposite table of contents:
"It is our privilege and pleasure to dedicate this 34th volume of the LCMND Proceedings to
now Emeritus Dean Bernard O'Kelly, and to identify him as a paragon of Linguistic Circularity."
Dean O'Kelly grew up in Winnipeg.
He studied Latin, French, Philosophy, & the Renaissance in Montreal & Boston,
He received both his M.A. [in 1955] and his Ph.D. [in 1960] at Harvard University.
He was Dean of Arts & Science at the UND, Grand Forks, from 1966 to his retirement in 1995.

Editor's Note, p.48,
requests that submission of final abstracts of up to three pages in length
be submitted in January, ca. 3 months after the LCMND Conference.
Also: some details concerning policy & [MLA] style.

pp.[49 &51]: "Call for Papers"
for the 9th Annual Midlands Conference on Language & Literature,
March 1996, atCreighton University, Omaha, NE

Presidential Dinner Address:
"Great Canadian Shields" [on Carol Shields' books The Republic of Love & The Stone Diaries] /
Neil Besner, UW


The 1994 LCMND Program [43 papers]:

  1. Rabelais's fools / Les fous de Rabelais / Daniel Bahuaud, UM.
  2. Crime and punishment in Marguerite de Navarre's 'Heptameron' / Nancy Erickson Bouzrara, UND.
  3. Desmond Egan's 'A Song for my Father': a fugal interpretation / David C. Bradley, Minot SU.
  4. Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale' / Muriel Brown, NDSU.
  5. The illustrated author: the iconography of the secular medieval book / Joyce Coleman, UND.
  6. Goethe & Schiller's "Xenien" / Xenions II: a new [English] translation [suite to seven 1993 distychs, all rendered in quatrains] / Ben L. Collins & Ursula Hovet, UND.
  7. Consciousness, memory and desire in Edna O'Brien's 'Time and Tide' / Kathleen Rettig Collins, Creighton University, Nebr.
  8. Musical adaptations of Gottfried Burger's 'Lenore', 1773 / Linwood & Kenneth DeLong, UW & Univ. Calgary.
  9. Cicero and the Stoic defence of divination / J. DeFilippo, UND.
  10. Narrative strategy in the 'Poema' de Fernan Gonzales / Gene DuBois, UND.
  11. Orpheus/Rilke/Cocteau: the metamorphoses of an ancient relief sculpture / Rory B. Egan, UM.
  12. Heroisme dans 'La Belle du Seigneur' d'Albert Cohen, 1968 / Francois-Xavier Eggun, Dalhousie Univ.
  13. William Langland's 'Piers Plowman' (14th cent.) and the feminine sublime / Murray J. Evans, UW.
  14. Green and glassy gulfs: imagery of return to water and women in Byron's tragedies / Eric Furuseth, Minot SU.
  15. Visual media in the works of Mario Szichman, Argentina / K. E. Hall, UND.
  16. Talk as reality-therapy in Maxine Hong Kingston's novels 'The Woman Warrior' (1975), 'China Men', (1977), and 'Tripmaster Monkey' (1987) / Shu-Huei Henrickson, NDSU.
  17. ESL students in a networked computer writing environment / Xiaozhao Huang, UND.
  18. What's in a name? Marguerite Duras's 'Yann Andrea Steiner', 1992 / Mary Greenwood Johnson, Moorhead SU, Minn.
  19. Harriet Wilson's 'Our Nig' as autobiographical protest literature / Traci Kelly, UND.
  20. Tayeb Salih's 'Season of Migration to the north': nationalism, narration & thge centering of consciousness / R. S. Krishnan, NDSU.
  21. Fantasia y realidad en 'El Alhajadito' de Miguel Angel Asturias / H. Lopez Laval, UND.
  22. Un dialogue imaginaire entre Roland Barthes et Marguerite Duras / Marylea MacDonald, UM.
  23. 'La Route d'Altamont' [de Gabrielle Roy], ou l'invention de l'ecriture / Alan MacDonnell, UM.
  24. A language of anger and disbelief: Larry French's 'Merry Christmas God' / Karen Malcolm, UW.
  25. Language politics in the United States: attempts to prevent an emerging renationalization / David F. Marshall, UND.
  26. No Bingo this time: problems with Louise Erdrich's 4th novel, 'The Bingo Palace', 1994 / Tom Matchie, NDSU.
  27. Philosophical literacy: a pedagogic experiment / Lena McCourtie & Peter Miller, UW.
  28. Speaking the unspeakable: the lost treatise "On the nonexistent, or On Nature" by the sophist Gorgias of Leontini as summarized by Sextus Empiricus, and skepticism in his predecessors Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Protagoras / Theodore Messenger, UND.
  29. Dark forces at the boundary of gay literature / Michael E. Moriarty, Valley City SU, ND.
  30. Nothing to be done in S.Beckett's 'Godot' / Jon Palzer, UND.
  31. Marie Cardinal et Luce Irigaray: la rhetorique qui saute aux yeux / Catherine Phillips, UM.
  32. The semantical basis of language / Donald V. Poochigan, UND.
  33. Harriet Jacobs and Molly Horniblow: self-reliant black women / Barbara Ragan, Minot SU.
  34. Froebel education: its impact on architects F. L. Wright and LeCorbusier / Dieter Roger, UM.
  35. Le discours metadiegetique dans 'Alexandre Chenevert' de Gabrielle Roy / Vincent L. Schonberger, Lakehead University, Ont.
  36. Language, symbolism and power in Susan Power's 'The Grass dancer' / Ines Senna Shaw, NDSU.
  37. Form and force in the writing of Jacques Ferron / Larry Steele, Halifax, NS.
  38. The faulty Dick in detective fiction / Tony Steele, UM.
  39. The Celtic element in Katherine Kerr's Westland novels / Sherrie Stoskopf.
  40. Accruing and divesting: power in 'Lear' and 'Henry IV' / A. Trump, NDSU.
  41. Crosses into swords: imagery in the poetry of Georg Herwegh, 1817-1875 / Robert Uebel, NDSU.
  42. Realidad virtual y modernismo latino-americano: Borges & Cortazar / Guillermo Valencia-Serna, UND.
  43. "We see things through a glass darkly": metaphor in Donne's Sermon XXIII / Clement H. Wyke, UW.