46th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
of the
Linguistic Circle OF MANITOBA & NORTH DAKOTA
October 18-19, 2003
Lakeview Inn and Suites
Grand Forks, ND
Saturday, October 18
8:15-9:00
Registration
9:00-10:15 (Parlor)
Session 1ASpecial Session:
Speaking Bulgarian on Slavis Show: Revising Gender and Nation in the Post-Communist Diaspora
Chair: Joseph Nnadi (U of Winnipeg)
Kathleen Dixon, Anelia Dimitorva, Juliana Gencheva, Neli Gogovska, Daniela Koleva (U of ND)Bulgarias History, Political and Mass-Mediated
Dixon, Dimitorva, Gencheva (U of ND)Slavis Show in Bulgaria as Transnational Communal Enterprise
Dixon, Gogovska, Koleva (U of ND)Slavi Trifonov and Mythic Masculinity
9:00-10:15 (Terrace)
Session 1BWomen of the Future Present: Science Fiction
Chair: André Lebugle (U of ND)
Jane Huenneke (NDSU) Reading the Body: Resisting the Messages of Misogyny in the Star Trek: TOS* Episode, Turnadot Intruder
Sherry Stoskopf (Minot State U)Marjorie Westriding Yrarier: A Mirror of the Modern Womens Movement?
Saturday, October 18, 2003
10:15-11:00
Welcome
by Daniel N. Erickson, LCMND President
&
Martha Potvin, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UND
Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 (Terrace)
Session 2AThe Painted Word: Twentieth Century Art
Chair: Sherrie M. Fleshman (U of ND)
Raymond Spiteri (U of ND)The Putrescent Ass: Salvador Dalí and the Paranoiac Body
Kathleen Vacek (Independent Scholar)Twentieth Century Propaganda Art in Spain and China
11:00-12:15 (Parlor)
Session 2BFrench Literature
Chair: Juli A. Kroll (U of ND)
Joseph Nnadi (U of Winnipeg)Women Poets of the Restoration: From Revolution to Revolution
Vincent Schonberger (Lakehead U)The Ontological Problem of Autogenesis in Jean-Paul Sartres Huis Clos
André Lebugle (U of ND)Trois comédies contre les puissants
Saturday, October 18, 2003
12:15-2:00
Lunch
in area restaurants
(There are several restaurants within easy walking distance of the Lakeview Inn and Suites.)
2:00-3:15 (Parlor)
Session 3AFeminist Literature and Theory
Chair: Bill Cosgrove (NDSU)
KrisAnn Norby (NDSU)Reconstructing Female Identity in The Bell Jar
Juli A. Kroll (U of ND)Carmen Bullosas Heretical Theater
Jacqueline McLeod Rogers (U of Winnipeg)Growing Feminist Narrative Research Methodology and Discourse: Some Personal, Rhetorical and Personal Grounds
2:00-3:15 (Terrace)
Session 3BThe Aesthetics of Poetry
Chair: Robert Kibler (Minot State U)
George Slanger (Minot State U, Emeritus)Filling in the Gaps: Jacques Maritain and Modernist Aesthetics
Debra Maury (U of ND)The Ars Poetica of the Avant-Garde: Vicente Huidobro and Pablo Neruda
Ben L. Collins (U of ND, Emeritus & Florida Atlantic U) Billy Collins Ars Poetica: Our Laureates Poems on Writing and Teaching
3:30-4:45 (Terrace)
Session 4AClassical Studies
Chair: Debra Maury (U of ND)
Daniel N. Erickson (U of ND)Lysias For Mantitheus
Peter Haugen (U of ND)Hamartia and Hubris in the Story of Oedipus
Theodore Messenger (U of ND)Previous Logics: Prescient or Passé?
3:30-4:45 (Parlor)
Session 4BComparative Literature
Chair: Jacqueline McLeod Rogers (U of Winnipeg)
Eric Furuseth (Minot State U)If heavn thou canst not bend/Hell thou shalt move: The Inferno and Book Three of the Dunciad
Robert Kibler (Minot State U)When a Good Raft and Compass Wont Do: Ezra Pounds Reliance in The Cantos on Guan yin, Chinese Patron-Goddess of Those Who Travel by Sea
Saturday, October 18, 2003
6:00 Dinner
Brannigans Restaurant, Private Dining Room
3415 32nd Ave S.
(Across the street from the Lakeview Inn and Suites)
Host: Daniel N. Erickson, President, LCMND
Sunday, October 19
9:00-10:15 (Terrace)
Session 5AViolence and Destruction in the Novel
Chair: Elizabeth Dawes (U of Winnipeg)
Tom Matchie (NDSU)Love and Death: A Womans Response to Violence in Louise Erdrichs The Master Butchers Singing Club
Sherrie Fleshman (U of ND)The Destructive Force of Desire in La nièce de limam
Claudia Routon (U of ND)A Black Novel and The Dirty War: Luisa Valenzuela Discusses Confession in Novela negra con argentinos (1990)
9:00-10:15 (Parlor)
Session 5BGender Studies and Queer Literature
Chair: Chandice Johnson (NDSU, Emeritus)
Michelle M. Sauer (Minot State U)Writing the (Queered?) Other: Displaced Sexuality & Masculinized Discourse in Womens Novels
Sarah Aleshire (Minot State U)The Queerest Sport: John Irvings Wrestling Match with Gender
Christopher Lozensky (Minot State U)I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you: Pseudo-Sadomasochism and Erotic Misery in Whitman
Sunday, October 19, 2003
10:15-10:45
Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 (Terrace)
Session 6APopular Linguistics and Folk Language
Chair: Tom Matchie (NDSU)
Erik Luther Williamson (U of ND)Jon Norstog: Defender of a Norwegian Folk Language; Crafter of His Own Literary Language in North Dakota
Elizabeth Dawes (U of Winnipeg)English and Latin Anti-Proverbs in the French-Language Press
10:45-12:00 (Parlor)
Session 6BWritings on the American Plains
Chair: Claudia Routon (U of ND)
Carolyn Baker (U of ND)More than Just a Cup of Coffee: An Analysis of Native Minnesotan Playwright and Humorist Howard Mohrs Presentation of Accepting Food on the Third Offer Appearing in His Book How to Talk Minnesotan
Eunice Johnston (NDSU)The Public and Private Henry A. Boller, 18th Century Traveler to the Upper Missouri
Sunday, October 19, 2003
12:00 Lunch
(catered by Brannigans restaurant),
followed by
LCMND Business Meeting
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