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ENGL 461/562: Spring 2008 Conference Saturday, 19 April 2008 Location: Grainger 201 Beverages and light refreshments will be available. |
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ENGL 461/562: Spring 2008 Conference Saturday, 19 April 2008 Location: Grainger 201 Beverages and light refreshments will be available. |
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Session 1: 8:00-9:15
Topic: Readers and Texts
Text and Context in Mary Oliver's "August"
Jessica Fox
"They All Deserve to Die": Reader Response and Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Jaime Morris
Just “Press Play”: Approaching Scott Weiland’s Lyrics From Tiny Music…
Dawn Van Ness
Session 2: 9:30-10:45
Topic: Feminist Readings
The "Her" in His Dark Materials: A Feminist Reading of Philip Pullman
Sara Bonovitch
Rocking the Genders: Feminist Issues and Modern Music
Casey Wentz
Feminisim and Femininity in The Old Man and the Sea
Ashley Parsons
Session 3: 11:00-12:15
Topic: Film Studies
Nice Young Girl, Terrible Black Oubliette: A Freudian Analysis of Labyrinth
Krista Griffin
God's Lonely Land: Violent Topographies in Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver
Alex Storz
The Corruption of Youthful Minds in Disney's False Portrayal of Love
Whitney Hancock
LUNCH BREAK: 12:15-1:15
Session 4: 1:15-2:50
Topic: Four Papers in Search of a Unifying Theme
"April is the Cruellest Month": Intertextuality in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer
Alice Kirby
The Emotional Connection in William Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Rebecca Eaker
The Modern Epic: A Structuralist Reading of Alan Moore's Watchmen
Sean Hopkins
Motherly Love: An Analysis of the Psychological State of Sethe in Beloved
Teantanette Wynne
Session 5: 3:05-4:40
Topic: Ancient Influences
Plot vs. Character: An Aristotelian Reading of Hamlet
Kyle Laird
Aristotelian Imitation and the Works of David Pelzer
Lisa Blunt
Theories of Writing in Horace and Elizabeth Barrett Browining
KayDee Booth
Theories of Poetry in Petrarch and Horace
Susan Revels-Parker
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