ENGL 461/562:
Literary Criticism
(Senior Seminar)

Spring 2007 Conference

21 April 2007

Location:
Ruffner 103 and 115

8:00-4:15

Beverages and light refreshments will be available.

Theory is Not Dead

Kyra Greene, "Double Consciousness in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man."

Phineas Dowling, "Big Brother is Watching: Interpellation and Power in 1984."

Deosire Smith, "The Joy of Predictable Uncertainty."

Frank Norris and Ernest Hemingway

Jacqueline Plain, "The Tyranny of Thanatos: A Freudian Analysis of McTeague."

Katie Widen, "'The Animal in Him Stirred and Woke': Marxism in Frank Norris's McTeague."

Shawn Garrett, "New Critical Evaluations of Hemingway."

Social Texts

Ashley Kirchberg, “The 700 Club: Postmodernism meets Televangelism."

Nicole Rudd, "Joss Whedon’s Firefly: Science Fiction as Social Commentary."

Cheryl Rychkov, "Comrades in Hypocrisy:  Hustler’s Seduction of the Left."

Readers, Texts, Responses

Brian Warshaw, "How to Spot Idealism When You See It: The Merits and Missteps of Stanley Fish's Reader Response Theory."

Helen Pittman, "The Issue of Genre in Contemporary Literature."

Emilie Bisset, "The Commercialism of Literature: Pop Culture's Influence on Toni Morrison's Beloved."

Between Writers and Readers

Elena Lucier, "Embracing the Intentional Fallacy: Unfulfilled Men in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms."

Rebecca Haigh, "Authorial Intent and Interpretive Communities: A Writer’s Perspective."

Richard Jollon, "William Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, and the Problem of Poetic Justice in King Lear."

Perspectives on Wordsworth

Erin Casey, "A Comparitive Analysis of Emily Dickinson and William Wordsworth."

Hilary Sullivan, "The Sublime in Wordsworth's 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'."

Amy Henry, "Joanna Baillie Introductory Discourse in Comparison to Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads."

Lunch Break: 12:30-1:30

Gender Matters

Melissa Warner, "Finding Feminism in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility: From Woolf to Gilbert and Gubar."

Tanner Keith, "Just the Three of Us: Homosocial Desire in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American."

Caitlin Flanagan, "Blurring the Lines: Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body and the Deconstruction of Desire."

Poets and Poetry

Lauren Reed, "An Horatian Analysis of Ted Kooser."

Liz Chenery, "This is 'The End': Nietzsche, Freud, and Jim Morrison."

Alicia Raymond, "Gendered Language in Aphra Behn and John Wilmot."

New Canons

Kristen Taylor, "Feminist Perspectives on The Revolt of Mother by Mary Wilkins Freeman."

Karly Treger, "Creating the Canon: The Place of African-American Literature."