Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Colorado Springs at the Invitation of The United States Air Force Academy in association with Colorado College

TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION Colorado Springs at the Invitation of THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY in association with COLORADO COLLEGE The members of the departments of English and Foreign Languages at the United States Air Force Academy and Colorado College are looking forward to being your hosts at the 1968 meeting. I hope we will see many of you at the meeting , and on behalf of the Superintendent and the Dean of the Faculty, I welcome you in advance. Colonel Jesse C. Gatlin, Jr., President RMMLA COMMITTEES ON LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Co-chairmen: Lt. Colonel Michael J. Mendelsohn and Thomas W. Ross Treasurer: Jack L. Rhodes Program Committee: Major Sanford L. Cohn Lieutenant David N. Young Transportation Committee: Major Walter R. McDonald Captain William R. Ouellette Dining Committee: Major Y. R. Geneste Lieutenant P. D. Knoke Registration Committee: Captain M. V. Mikolainis Lieutenant William E. McCarron Housing Committee: Major William T. Wilson Captain F. B. Cooper Publicity and Publishers' Exhibits Committee: Major Earl L. Gunnell Major Paul T. Comeau ABSTRACT OF PROGRAM Thursday 10 October Third Annual Meeting of Western Literature Association 8:30 p.m.Meeting of RMMLA Executive Board 8:30 p.m.Association of Departments of English 100BMMLA BulletinSeptember 1968 Friday 1 1 October 8:00-9:15 a.m.Begistration 9:20-10:20 a.m.Opening Session, RMMLA 10:30-12:00 a.m. BMMLA Sections: Comparative Literature, English II, Medieval and Classical Literature, Modem Languages I, Modem Languages HC, Western Americana-Folklore 12:20-1:45 p.m. BMMLA Luncheon 2:15-3:15 p.m.Plenary Session 3:30-5:00 p.m.BMMLA Sections: English IA, English IV, Literary and Critical Theory, Modem Languages HA, Modem Languages IIB 6:45 p.m.Cocktails 7:30 p.m.Banquet Saturday 12 October 9:15-10:15 a.m. BMMLA Business Meeting 10:30-12:00 a.m. BMMLA Sections: Dramatic Literature, English IB, English III, English V, English Language and Linguistics, Modem Languages III 12:00-12:30 p.m. BMMLA Section Chairmen Meeting 1:15 p.m.Junior-Senior College Luncheon Details follow. Thursday 10 October Meeting of RMMLA Executive Board. 8:30 p.m. Palmer House. Association of Departments of English. 8:30 p.m. Ramada Inn. Friday 11 October Registration. 8:00-9:15 a.m. Lobby F-I, Fairchild Hall. Begistration for members of the Association (non-members wishing to attend the meeting may join the Association at this time. Membership fee: $4.00) Opening session. 9:20-10:20 a.m. F-I, Fairchild Hall. Presiding: Colonel Jesse C. Gatlin, Jr., President BMMLA Welcoming Bemarks: Lt. General Thomas S. Moorman, Superintendent USAF Academy Thomas W. Boss, Professor of English, Colorado College Observations: Lt. Colonel Michael J. Mendelsohn, Conference Coordinator Speaker: F. Andre Paquette, Executive Secretary, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: "Some Current Activities in the Foreign Language Profession: Projects, Publications, and Service" Program101 Friday 11 October Comparative Literature. 10:30-12:00 a.m. Room L-I, Fairchild HaD. Chairman: Lois M. Welch, University of Montana Vice-chairman: W. F. Jacob, Idaho State University Business: Election of officers, etc. Donald C. Haberman, Arizona State University, "The Vigilant Virgins and The Voice of Destiny" The paper examines Proust's use of the telephone, not as a mere modem convenience , but as an instniment available to the writer. Ford Madox Ford's feeling that he inherited Proust's pen is supported by remarkable parallels between his use of the telephone in Parade's End and Proust's use. Henry A. Stavan, University of Colorado, "The First French Werther-Novels: Imitations or Parodies?" Following the popularity of Goethe's Werther in France, many young French authors attempted Wertherian novels. These works, now forgotten, correspond to pre-romantic literary fashion. Knowingly or unknowingly, their authors wrote parodies while trying to imitate a model well beyond their grasp. Mildred S. Greene, Arizona State University, "Integrity and Isolation: Mme de Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke" Comparison of these two heroines (conceived at least two hundred years apart) reveals several striking similarities. Most notably, they were both brought...