Meetings

MEETINGS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 4:00 to 8:00 RMMLA Board Meeting(Executive) 4:00 to 5:30 FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Francophone Literatures of The Caribbean and of the sub-Saharan Africa(Summit) Presiding: Jean-Marie Salien, Fort Hayes State University Secretary: Bryant Freeman, University of Kansas Jean-Marie Salien, Fort Hayes State University. "La Quête Du Passé Dans Le Quatriem Siècle d' Edouard Glissant." Victor Carrabino, Florida State University, Tallahassee. "Differences et Rapports entre Dadiane et Kane." Mary Ann Lyman, University of Idaho. "Visions ofthe West from African Francophone Literature." FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Other Germanic Literatures (Richards) Presiding: George S. Tate, Brigham Young University Secretary: Steven P. Sondrup, Brigham Young University Carol A. Hawkes, Stanford University. "Unconscious Amoral Choices: Women in the Works of August Strindberg and Otto Weininger." Miriam Pierce, Brigham Young University. "Mimesis: Death Imagery in Njáls saga." Alan M. Swanson, Brigham Young University. "Carl Israel Hallman and Gustavian Comedy." 5:00 to 6:30 Reception, sponsored by College of Humanities, BYU, Dean Richard H. Cracroft(McKay) 5:45 to 10:30 SPECIAL EVENT: International Cinema, "Literature into Film." BYU Campus (free shuttle and free admission), see events board for films and details. 185 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 5:45 to 7:15 FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Slavic Literature(Alpine) Presiding: Thomas F. Rogers, Brigham Young University Secretary: Earl Sampson, University of Colorado Gary L. Browning, Brigham Young University. "The Steeplechase in Anna Karenina." J.L. Laychuk, University of Calgary. "Expressions of Religiosity in LG. Ehrenburg's Poetry of the Civil War Period." Edward Jamosky, University of Northern Iowa. "The Theme of Revolution in the Poetry of Boris Pasternak." LINGUISTICS: Spanish and Portuguese(Arches) Presiding: Halvor Clegg, Brigham Young University Secretary: Vladimir Honsa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Barbara Lafford, Arizona State University. "Ser and Estar: A New Dimension." Willis C. Fails, Brigham Young University. "The Computer and Dialectological Research." T. Wendell Jackson and Halvor Clegg, Brigham Young University. "A Comparison of Basic Spoken and Written Spanish Lexicon." Vladimir Honsa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Four Turning Points in Spanish." GENERAL TOPIC: Comparative Literature(Summit) Presiding: Keith L. Roos, Brigham Young University Secretary: Deborah Gaensbauer, Regis College Sharon Kellum, University of New Mexico. "The Self-Incriminating Narrators of Notesfrom Underground and El tunel." James Mills, Southern Utah State College. "Archilochus and Andre Chenier : Biographic Parallelism and Iambic Convergence." SPECIAL TOPIC: American Humor(Richards) Presiding: William Nelson, Wichita State University Secretary: Richard H. Cracroft, Brigham Young University Mary McBride, Texas Tech University. "Eschatological Myth and American Epitaphs." Ivan Melada, University of New Mexico. "All kings is mostly rapscallions." 186 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 Gregory S. Sojka, Wichita State University. "Montague Glass and Milt Gross: Two Case Studies in Jewish Humor." Don L.F. Nilsen, Arizona State University. "The Humor of Idiomatic English." SPECIAL TOPIC: Galway Kinnell: The Creative Mind in Poetry and Criticism(Monument) Presiding: Jeane Luere, University of Northern Colorado Panelists: Betty Spehar, Western State College; Becky Edgerton, Center for Human Enrichment, University of Northern Colorado; CL. Etheridge, University of Texas at El Paso; Ronnie Patterson, University of Northern Colorado 7:30 to 9:30 SPECIAL EVENT: Poetry Reading(Richards) Presiding: Sally Taylor, Brigham Young University Secretary: Walter McDonald, Lubbock, Texas The following poets will read from their works: William Pitt Root, University of Montana; Kathryn Ashworth, Brigham Young University; Norman Lanquist, Eastern Arizona College; Andrew Hudgins, Baylor University; Marilyn Krysl, University of Colorado; Charles Guilford, Boise State University ; Pamela Uschuck, University of Montana. FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Asian Languages and Literatures (Alpine) Presiding: Gary P. Tipton, Arizona State University T. Richard Chi, Brigham Young University. "The Use of Mandarin Adverbs by English Speaking Learners: Errors and Explanations." S.S. Moorty, Southern Utah State College. "Nirad Chaudhuri's The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian: A Socio-Cultural Expose of Indian Society." Sherman Han, Brigham Young University, Hawaii. "The Comic Approaches in Hsi-yu Chi." TEACHING: English(Summit) Presiding: Maurine McElroy, University of Texas at Austin Patricia J. Keith, Lewis Clark State College. "The Longest Way Makes Me More Knowing." 187 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 7:30 to 9:30 (continued) J. David Williams, Abilene Christian College. "When Literary Questions Really Count." Ron Smith, Utah State University. "The Next Time You're Asked to...