ALSC Sixth Annual Conference (2000)
Chicago, IL, October 27 – 29, 2000
Friday, October 27
2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Modern Consciousness and the Modernist
Novel
Chair: Virgil P. Nemoianu (Catholic
University of America)
- Suzanne Nalbantian (Long Island University): “Virginia Woolf in the Modernist Context.”
- Zack R. Bowen (University of Miami): “Joyce and Modernism.”
- Gerald Gillespie (Stanford University): “Time and Eternity in Mann’s The Magic Mountain and Joseph tetralogy.”
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Reception, with address by President Mary Lefkowitz
Saturday, October 28
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. Epic, Ancient and Modern
Chair: Jane Tylus (University
of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Ralph Johnson (University of Chicago): “Virgilian Maniera: Mimesis as Evocation.”
- Mario de Ceasre (SUNY Binghamton): “Strange relations, or The Inside Story: Narratives and Narrators in Epic.”
- Michael Murrin (University of Chicago): “Epic Storms.”
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. Poetry in the Curriculum
Chair: Willard Spiegelman (Southern
Methodist University)
- William Flesch (Brandeis University): “The Conjuror’s Trick, or How to Rhyme.”
- Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia): “Tropes and Teams: Teaching Poetry through Classroom Debate.”
- John Koethe (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “Thought and Poetry.”
2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Virgil and his Legacy
Chair: Sarah Spence (University
of Georgia)
- Richard Thomas (Harvard University): “Culture Wars in the Reception of the Georgics.”
- John Watkins (University of Minnesota): “Immortal Voices: Milton’s Virgilian Inheritance.”
- Craig Kallendorf (Texas A&M University): “The Aeneid Transformed: Illustration as Interpretation from the Renaissance to the Present.”
2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Poet and Critic
Chair: Lisa Fishman (Beloit
College)
Poems read by poets Lucie Brock-Broido (Columbia University) and Frank Bidart (Wellesley College); criticism by Daneen Wardrop (Western Michigan University) and Thomas Allen (University of Richmond); responses from poets and critics.
8:00 p.m. Dinner, followed by an address by Tom Wolfe
Sunday, October 29
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. A New Aesthetics?
Chair: Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern
University)
- Susan McReynolds (Northwestern University): “Aesthetics and Social Justice: The Problem of Dostoevsky.”
- Susan Wolfson (Princeton University): “The Politics of Allusion: Charlotte Smith’s Emigrants.”
- James Wood (The New Republic): “Shakespeare and Value: The Frustrations of Theory.”
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