Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference

Lina Sierra Ayala	Times of War and Peace: Sequels and Phobias in The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Nancy Blake	Che vuoi? Enjoying the perverse symptom in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Patrick Brady	The Principle of Convergence and the Theme of Disempowerment
Anca Cristofovici	Joyce Tenneson: An Aesthetics of Aging
Evangelia Diamantopoulou	The Excessive Element of the Hero in both the Poetic and Artistic Expression of Nikos Engonopoulos: The Case Study of "Bolivar" and the Contemporary Revival of Greek Mythology
Camelia Elias	Portraits in Pain: The Psychology of Inspiration in Prose Poems by Lynn Emanuel
Ma Luisa Pascual Garrido	Psychotic Perception and Literary Construction of the Self: Some Plathian Images of an Ordered Chaos
Andrew Gordon	"Envy": Cynthia Ozick Meets Melanie Klein
László Halász	The Psychology of the Terrorist Based on Doris Lessing's Vision
Claire Odeon Hershman	Desperate Trojan Housewives: Some Reflections on The Trojan Women, a Film by Michael Cacoyannis
Norman N. Holland	Don Quixote and the Neuroscience of Metafiction
Dianne Hunter	Uncanny Fish in Plath and Hughes
Claire Kahane	Fleeing Clarissa: A Meditation on the Nature of Love, Enduring or Otherwise
E. Karasavvidou & A. Karakitsios	"Once the Hunter": An Intercultural Analysis Of Children’s Literature
Rainer J. Kaus	Plea for Tolerance - Lion Feuchtwanger's Novel The Jewess of Toledo
Keiko Kimura	Sylvia Plath’s Mourning and Creativity
Ida Kodrlová, Ivo Cermák	Precursors to Suicide in Life and Works of Sylvia Plath and Sarah Kane
Isabel Jaén Portillo	Literary Consciousness: Fictional Minds, Real Implications
María Rosario Quintana	Reminiscencia de la infancia: el caso de un escritor de los siglos XX y XXI
Teresa Gutiérrez Rodríguez	Teorías Biológicas de Personalidad y su Aplicación al Análisis de los Personajes de Abigail Morgan
Jorge Sacido Romero	Don Quixote Rides Again: Illusion and Delusion in Conrad’s Lord Jim: A Tale
Paula Martín Salván	"Our Offering is Language": Speech and Communication Disorders in the Narrative of Don DeLillo
María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno	The Waters of the Mind: Rhetorical Patterns of Fluidity in Woolf, William James, Bergson and Freud
Robert Silhol	Freud on "Repression" and on "the Unconscious"
Bent Soerensen	Tourette in Fiction: Lethem, Lefcourt, Hecht, Rubio, Byalick
Fabio Troncarelli	"Head On"
Donald Vanouse	Mourning and Melancholia in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Karen Yanuba Lezama Morales	The Portrait of a Murderer: An Approach to Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man
Sherry Lutz Zivley	Madness and Modernism: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"--Fifty Years Later

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