ALSC Third Annual Conference (1997)
San Francisco, CA, November 7-9, 1997
Friday, November 7
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Registration
2:00 – 4:30 p.m. Literary Biography
Chair: Brian
Boyd (University of Auckland)
- Joseph Carroll (University of Missouri): “The Origin of Charles Darwin: Nature and Society in Biographical Explanation.”
- Hershell Parker (University of Delaware): “Finding Narrative in Melville’s Marginalia.”
- Andrew Wachtel (Northwestern University): “Life into Art or Art into Life? Disentangling Lev Tolstoy’s Autobiographical Practice.”
- Hazel Rowley (Independent Scholar): “Richard Wright’s Life: Beyond Race and Politics.”
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Discussion groups:
- “The Zeitgeist as Parameter,” led by Peter Brier
- “Art and Politics in Literary Biography,” led by Andrew Patner
- “Between Autobiography and Fiction,” led by Brooke Hopkins
- “Recovering Melville,” led by David Rothman
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Reception, with address by President Robert Alter.
7:00 – 7:45 p.m. Graduate Student Members’ Meeting.
8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Poster Session
Saturday, November 8
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. Jane Austen
Chair: Lorraine
Clark (Trent University)
- Jill Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado, Boulder): “The Epistemology of the Picturesque: Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility.”
- Inger Brodey (University of Puget Sound): “Adventures of a Female Werther: Austen’s Revision of Sensibility.”
- Paul Cantor (University of Virginia): “Persuasion and the Lingering Death of the Aristocracy.”
- David Gallop (Trent University): “Jane Austen and the Aristotelian Ethic.”
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. Poets and Teachers
Chair: John Hollander (Yale University)
Four poets discuss their work and its relation to the academy:
- Rachel Hadas (Rutgers University) has published seven books of poetry, including most recently The Empty Bed.
- Debora Greger (University of Florida) has written five volumes of poetry; the latest is Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters.
- Robert Mezey (Pomona College) has published five collections of poems, including the recent Evening Wind.
- J. D. McClatchy (editor, The Yale Review) has taught at Yale, Princeton, and Columbia; his fourth volume of poetry will appear this year.
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 – 5:30 p.m. The State of Literary Studies
Chair: Eleanor
Cook (University of Toronto)
- Glenn Most (University of Chicago): “Loose Canons: On Ancient and Modern Literary Studies.”
- Robert Scholes (Brown University): “Literature and Composition: Reconsidering a Relationship.”
- Seymour Chatman (UC Berkeley): “What happened to Literary Theory?”
- Denis Donoghue (NYU): “Three Ways of Reading.”
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Members’ Meeting
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Poetry Reading: Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes will read from their translation of the Collected Poems by Borges.
8:00 p.m. Dinner, followed by an address by A. S. Byatt: “Ice, Snow, Glass.”
Sunday, November 9
9:00 – 11:30 a.m. Translation
Chair: Rosanna
Warren (Boston University)
- Jonathan Brent (Editor, Yale University): “The Place of the Translator in Literary Publishing.”
- Clare Cavanagh (University of Wisconsin): “At the Corner of maple and Pine: Szymborska in America.”
- Robert Fagles (Princeton University): “War’s Miracle Begetting That of Peace: Translating Homer’s Odyssey.”
- Jascha Kessler (UCLA): “The Translator as Poet.”
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Discussion groups:
- “Faithful Ugliness or Faithless Beauty,” led by Daniel Cullen
- “Translation, Imitation, or What?” led by Jay Halio
- “The Translator as Mediator: Working with Authors, Editors, and Publishers,” led by Alfred MacAdam
- “Translation as Interpretation,” led by Jeffrey Todd
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