ALSC Second Annual Conference (1996)
Boston, MA, August 25-27, 1996
Sunday, August 25
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Registration
2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Emily Dickinson
- Heather McHugh (University of Washington): “Fastenings in Dickinson: (Moving Means, Meaning Moves)”
- William H. Pritchard (Amherst College): “Talking Back to Dickinson”
- Debra San (Massachusetts College of Art): “Dickinson in Recitation”
- Shira Wolosky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): “Being in the Body”
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Reception
9:00 p.m. A Showing of Samuel Beckett’s Plays for Television presented by Robert Scanlan
Monday, August 26
7:30-8:45 a.m. Breakfast
9:00-10:45 a.m. Ovid of the Metamorphoses
- Paul Barolsky (University of Virginia): “The Florentine Renaissance of Ovid”
- Jorie Graham (University of Iowa): “After Ovid”
- Sara Mack (University of North Carolina): “Ovid’s Metamorphosis of Poetry”
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. Discussion Sections:
- Transformation
as a literary motif
Discussion leaders: R. J. Schork and R. D. Stock - Ovid
in his context and in translation
Discussion leaders: John F. Miller and David R. Slavitt - The
Renaissance
Discussion leaders: Roxanne Gentilcore and Christopher Martin - Twentieth-century
literature
Discussion leaders: Hollie Markland Harder and Kai Mikkonen
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Luncheon
2:00 – 5:00 p.m. The Poetry/Prose Distinction
- Anne Carson (McGill University): “Economy”
- Anthony Hecht (Georgetown University): “A Note on the Relations of Poetry and Prose”
- Steven Monte (Yale University): “The Idea of an American Prose Poem”
- David J. Rothman (Western State College of Colorado): “The Conundrum of Whitman’s Versification”
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Member’s Meeting
7:30 p.m. Dinner
Followed by an address by Grace Paley at 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 27
7:30 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 – 10:45 a.m. Contemporary Drama
- Wendy Lesser (Editor, The Threepenny Review): “A Director Calls: Stephen Daldry’s Art of Interpretation”
- Robert Scanlan (American Repertory Theatre): “The Crowd It Takes to make Solitude”
- Frederick Wiseman (Documentary film-maker): “A Non-scholar’s Approach to Monologue”
- Monodrama
Discussion leaders: Jayme Coszyn and David Wheeler - The
claims of realism
Discussion leaders: Frank R. Cunningham and Nancy M. Tischler - “Updating” in
the staging and translation of drama from the past
Discussion leaders: Michael L. Greenwald and Charles Marowitz - Acting
styles and traditions
Discussion leaders: Joyce Flynn and Arthur Holmberg
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