1970-1971 Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Sun Valley, Idaho at the invitation of Idaho State University

1970-1971 TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION Sun Valley, Idaho at the invitation of IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY Members of the English and foreign language departments of Idaho State University will serve as hosts for the 1970 RMMLA Conference. We trust that the setting for this year's meeting, together with several distinguished speakei-s (Mary Hemingway, John Hadley Hemingway, John Hurt Fisher, and Philip Young), will provide an interesting experience for all members. President William E. Davis and other members of the administration join in extending a cordial welcome. David H. Stewart, President RMMLA Committees on Local Arrangements Treasurer: Dr. Lawrence H. Rice, Professor Audrey Greenwood Registration: Dr. Carol Bagley, Professor James Goodwin Publicity: Professor William Shanahan, Professor Charles Africa SCHEDULE Meeting Places: Sage Room, Camas Room, Lodge TV Room, The Place Thursday, October 8 Western Literature Association Meeting Idaho Foreign Language Teachers Association Meeting 3:00-6:00 RMMLA Information/Registration, Lodge Lobby 6:00Bus Shuttle to Trail Creek 6:15Cocktails 7:15Dinner Speakers: Mary and John Hemingway. Barre Toelken, folksinger Friday, October 9 9:00-10:30 Section Meetings English III: Teaching—The Place English V: American Studies—Camas Room Social Ecology and Literature—Sage Room Dramatic Literature—Lodge TV Room 10:45-12:15 Section Meetings English II: Literature after 1800-The Place Modem Languages III: Teaching—Camas Room Slavic Literature—Lodge TV Room 100RMMLA BulletinSeptember 1970 12:15Editorial Board lunch and general luncheon for all delegates 12:15Luncheon for English department chairmen 1:45-3:15 Section Meetings Western Americana Folklore—The Place Junior College English— Camas Room Genre Symposium—Sage Room Classical and Medieval Literature—Lodge TV Room 3:30-5:00 Section Meetings Hemingway Symposium—The Place Modem Languages HA: French—Camas Room English IA: Medieval and Renaissance Literature—Sage Room Modem Languages I: Linguistics—Lodge TV Room 6:30Cocktails 7:30Banquet. Speaker: John H. Fisher, Executive Secretary, Modem Language Association Soturdoy, October 10 7:45-9:00 Breakfast Business Meeting, Lodge Dining Room 9:00-10:30 Section Meetings English IB: 17th and 18th Century Literature-The Place Modem Languages IIB: German—Camas Room Spanish and Portuguese—Sage Room American Literature after 1900—Lodge TV Room 10:45-12:15 Section Meetings Film Symposium—The Place English Language and Linguistics—Camas Room Comparative Literature—Sage Room American Literature to 1900—Lodge TV Room 12:30Section Chairmen Lunch COURSES English V: Americon Studies Friday, 9:00-10:30, Camas Room Chairman: Stuart B. James, University of Denver Vice-Chairman; Colonel Jesse C. Gatlin, U.S. Air Force Academy Rosemary Whitaker, Colorado State University, "Myth and the Myth-Making Process in Henry Thoreau's A Week On the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By engaging in die myth-making process in A Week, Thoreau conveyed not only his Transcendental vision of man but also his awareness of the necessity within American culture to search for a national as well as an individual identity. Program101 Edward Twining, University of Denver, 'The 'Chain of Meaning' in Wallace Stegner's The Big Rock Candy Mountain." This paper considers the current relevance, some thirty years after the novel's publication, of the dramatic conflict of values between two generations of a Westem American family in Wallace Stegner's The Big Rock Candy Mountain. James Elmore, Lewis-Clark Normal School, "Nathanael West and The Hell of Modem Man" The secular, microcosmic hell of modem man—now macrocosmic—was depicted in style and content thirty to forty years ago in West's four novels about culture, journalism, free enterprise, and Hollywood. His phrophetic insight and creative genius foreshadowed much of the significant fiction of die past two decades. Literary Ecology Friday, 9:00-10:30, Sage Room Chairman: Henry Pettit, University of Colorado Vice-Chairman: Paul T. Bryant, Colorado State University A. Wilbur Stevens, Prescott College, "Literature and Ecology: Two Imaginations ?" The reply to the question is "No." Critical provincialism, whether aesthetic or sociological, is the villain. Muddy generalism is the threat. Opportunism is the temptation. Julian Steward's "culturally dependent relationships" are examined in the light of some contemporary developments in Asian literature, particularly the Indian novel. Joseph W. Angelí, Colorado State University, "Ecolographia: or...