Date:
July 8 - July 12, 1999
Location:
Urbino,
Italy
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Abstracts
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| Thursday, July 8 | ||
| Friday, July 9 | ||
| Saturday, July 10 | ||
| Sunday, July 11 | ||
| Monday, July 12 |
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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8:00 a.m - 9:00 a.m
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9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
| Speaker | Topics |
| Sherry Zivley, University of Houston | The Depths of Evil: The Phenomenology of Fictional Subterranean Spaces |
| Shuli Barzilai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Accountable Maliguity: Three Kitchen Scenes in Atwood's Fiction |
| [Chair] Stephanie Ortega, Southwest Texas University | Bachmann's Style of Posturing Dying in Malina |
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| Saundra Segan, City University of New York | Sullivan's Idea of Chumship and a Literature of Friendship |
| Jerome Winer, University of Illinois | Panic in Literature |
| [Chair] Frederico Pereira, ISPA, Lisbon, Portugal | La fantasmatique et la pluralit du soc: le cas de Marguerite Duras |
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
| Speaker | Topics |
| Max Day, Harvard Medical School | Frieda Fromm-Reichmann: A Retrospective |
| Czeslaw Dziekanowski, University of Bialystok | Between Internal Experience and Artistic Form |
| [Chair] Elizabeth Fox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | A Theory of Mothering Implicit in the Work of Joan Riviere |
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| Solange Leibovici, University of Amsterdam | The Anality of Evil: Celine's "Anti-Semitic Pamphlets" |
| [Chair] Donald Vanouse, State University of New York at Oswego | The Blighting of Love in J.M. Coetzee's Boyhood |
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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| Speaker | Topics |
| Emil Draitser, City University of New York | Psychological Underpinnings of Russian Proverbs on Violence against Women |
| Claudia Liebrand, Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet | Lulu: "The Wild, Beautiful Animal" - Rereading Wedekind |
| [Chair] Marvin Krims, Harvard Medical School | Cruelty in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew |
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| Anca Cristofovici, Université de Caens | An Aesthetics of Aging |
| Sylvie Blum, University of Florida | Memento Mori: Boltanski's Monuments to Mourning and Loss |
| [Chair] Nancy Blake, University of Illinois | Deconstructing the Muse: Surrealism's Child-Woman and Hans Bellmer's Dolls |
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m
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9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
| Speaker | Topics |
| Elena Bonelli, University of Siena | Abject Bodies and Disseminated Remains in Titus Andronicus |
| Joan Byles, University of Cyprus | Shakespeare and War |
| [Chair] Dianne Hunter, Trinity College | Hamlet's Hysterical Form |
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| Pierre Met, Université de Paris VII | Henry James and Loss: The Europeans |
| Greg Forter, University of South Carolina | Modernism, Manhood, and Melancholia: Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises |
| [Chair] Anne Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida | The Rise and Fall of Jerzy Kosinski |
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
| Speaker | Topics |
| Richard Currie, City University of New York | The Role of the Unconscious in Detection in Wilkie Collins's The Law and the Lady |
| Marcia Landau, University of New Mexico | Amy Levy -Poetic Reflections of Object of Love |
| [Chair] Bert Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida | Poe's Raven: Influence, Alienation, and Art |
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| Alice Adams, Miami University of Ohio | Anti-Oedipal Biomythographies in Audre Lorde, Dorothy Allison, and Cherrie Moraga |
| Georgianna Colville, Université de Tours | The Tragic Trajectories of Three Surrealist Sphinxes: Frida Kahlo, Kay Sage, and Unica Zurn |
| [Chair] Margaret Schaefer, Berkeley, California | (Re)creating the Parent -- the Reparative Function of the Memoir |
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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| Rene Morel, City College of San Francisco | A Telling Show: Self and Specularity in the King Candaules Myth |
| Ulrike Kistner, University of the Witwatersrand | Crowds at Hangings, at Revolutions, in Media Events - Mutations of the Social Tie? |
| [Chair] David Willbern, State University of New York at Buffalo | "I Like to Watch" |
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| Gordon Hirsch and Louella Hirsch, University of Minnesota | Cognitive Behavioral Psychology and the Case of Pride and Prejudice |
| [Chair] Laszlo Halasz, Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Reception of Different "Genres" of Freudian Texts |
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
| Speaker | Topics |
| Jennifer Predock-Linnell, University of New Mexico | The Closeted Swan Emerges |
| Franziska Schoessler, Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet | Cross-dressing in Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography |
| [Chair] William Spurlin, Columbia University | The Absence of Language: Reading Scola's Le Bal |
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| Chapman Chen, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong | A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Bai Xiannyong's "Death in Chicago" |
| Samuel Roll, University of New Mexico | Cultural Variations in Oedipal Literature |
| [Chair] Susan Van Zyl, University of the Witwatersrand | Why We Should Still Read "Prospero and Caliban" |
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
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| Speaker | Topics |
| Virginia Blum, University of Kentucky | Imitating Mother: Allegories of Race and Space in Imitation of Life |
| [Chair] Andrew Gordon, University of Florida | Racism as a Project: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
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| Astrid Lange-Kirchheim, Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet | De(con)struction of a Lady's Portrait: Mme Chauchat in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain |
| Earl Ingersoll, State University of New York at Brockport | James Joyce's "The Dead" and the Dilemma of Identification |
| [Chair] Yana Hashamova, Bowdoin College | Beckett's Winnie: The Woman Who is No-All? |
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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| Marina Bronich, Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University | Doubles in Dostoevsky and Bellow |
| Annelies Van Mees, University of Amsterdam | The Lacanian Gaze and the Little Mermaid |
| [Chair] Robert Silhol, Université de Paris VII | The Law of the Father |
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| Maria Kardaun, University of Maastricht | Jacob and the Angel: on Genesis 32, 22-31 |
| Eva Eskselius, Stockholm, Sweden | Angel in the Underworld: Aspects of a Love Story |
| [Chair] Reuven Tsur, Tel Aviv University | The Death-and-Rebirth Archetype in Poetry (an Homage to Maud Bodkin) |
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:30p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
| Speaker | Topics |
| Marcia Green, San Francisco State University | "Girl of My Dreams": Harry Angel's Epiphany from Johnny Favorite's "Haunting Melody" in Alan Parker's Angel Heart |
| Robert Sprich, Bentley College | "Jumpin' Nights in the Garden of Eden": Sensuality in John Duigan's Sirens |
| [Chair] Norman Holland, University of Florida | My Shakespeare in Love |
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| Sue Finkelstein, Cleveland Heights, Ohio | Conrad as Trauma Survivor: Reflections on his Narrative Method |
| George Johnson, Cariboo University | Well-remembered Voices: Mourning and Spirit Communication in First World War Narratives |
| [Chair] Claire Kahane, State University of New York at Buffalo | The Maternal Scream |
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
| Speaker | Topics |
| Elaine Baruch , New York City, New York | Manon Lescaut: The Impossible Object in Literature and Opera |
| Maria Ferreira, University of Aveiro | The Eternity of the Same: Human Cloning and its Discontents |
| [Chair] Tamise Van Pelt, Idaho State University | Psychoanalysis in Cyberspace: The Issue of Otherness |
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| Jane Kupersmidt, New York City, New York | Reticent Representation: Negation in Literature and Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Maureen Turim, University of Florida | The Fantasy Image: Fixed or Moving? |
| [Chair] Antal Bokay, Janus Pannonius University | Psychoanalytic Poetics: The Work of Nicholas Abraham |
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
8:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
8:00 a.m - 9:00 a.m.
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| Speaker | Topics |
| Arnold Toczyski, University of Bialystok | Two Ways of Creating: Experiment and Imagination |
| [Chair] Geoffrey Green, San Francisco State University | "Conjuring up a piece of real life': David Mamet's Representation of the Compulsion to Repeat and its Transformation into Remembrance by Means of Transference in his Film, Things Change |
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| Dilek Doltas, Bogazici University | Islamic Woman Writers and the Question of Identity in Political Islam |
| Helen Jaskoski, California State University at Fullerton | "I always knew you were singing": The Search for Parental Ground in the Poetry of Wendy Rose |
| [Chair] Cheryl Johnson, Miami University of Ohio | The Language of Servitude |
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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