ALSC Fourth Annual Conference (1998)
Toronto, ON, October 2-4, 1998
Friday, October 2
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Registration
2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Prose Argument
Chair: David
Bromwich (Yale University).
- Richard Poirier (Rutgers University): “Emerson: ‘Are they ‘my’ poor?’”
- Margery Sabin (Wellesley College): “Anecdote and Argument in British Writing about India.”
- Philip Horne (University of London): “Critical Correspondence: James and his Confreres.”
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Poetry reading by Geoffrey Hill from his forthcoming book.
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Reception, with address by President Eleanor Cook.
7:00 – 7:45 p.m. Graduate Student Members’ Meeting.
8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Poster Session
Saturday, October 3
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. The Language of Poetry and
the Language of the State.
Chair: Michael
Putnam (Brown University).
- Geoffrey Hill (Boston University): “Language, Suffering, and Silence.”
- Sarah Spence (University of Georgia): “Caesar and Caesuras: The Poetics of Empire in Vergil and the Aeneid.”
- John Peck: “Sacrifice and Poetics: a Half-Forgotten Answer to the State.”
2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Proust.
Chair: Jean-Louis
Major (University of Ottawa)
- Richard Howard (Columbia University): “Proust and Music.”
- Roger Shattuck (Boston University): “Sheer Length.”
- Christie McDonald (Harvard University): “Anxiety and the Gift of Art.”
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Members’ Meeting.
8:00 p.m. Banquet, followed by an address by Margaret Atwood: “Negotiating with the Dead.”
Sunday, October 4
9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Varieties of Dramatic Performance:
Mask, Gesture, Language.
Chair: Stephen
Scully (Boston University)
- Peter Burian (Duke University): “What Makes Greek Drama Dramatic: Movement, Gesture, and Word in Greek Tragic Theater.”
- Frank Hoff (University of Toronto): “Perspectives on Acting and Actor’s Training: Zeami, Kanze Hisao, Eugenio Barba, Suzuki Tadashi.”
- Kenneth Gross (University of Rochester): “An Imaginary Theater.”
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Workshops on Dramatic Performance
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