Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Provo, Utah at the invitation of Brigham Young University

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION Provo, Utah at the invitation of BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY The members of the departments of English, Humanities and Comparative Literature, Classical and Asian Languages, French and Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, Germanic and Slavic Languages, and Linguistics of Brigham Young University are happy to serve as your hosts for the 1969 RMMLA Conference. We believe that the section meetings and special activities will provide a stimulating and exciting experience for all participants. President Emest L. Wilkinson and all other members of the Administration join with us in extending to each of you a cordial welcome. R. Max Rogers, President RMMLA COMMITTEES ON LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Co-Chairmen: M. Carl Gibson and John B. Harms Treasurer: Merlin D. Compton Registration: Marvin H. Folsom and Peter P. Ashworth Banquet Arrangements: Todd A. Britsch and C. Dixon Anderson Transportation and Parking: Joseph O. Baker and Harold Rosen Publicity: Neal Lambert Scheduling and Programs: Garold N. Davis and Byron Gassman Housing: George C. Bennion and Keith L. Roos Publishers' Exhibits: Zane Alder and Hoover W. Clark ABSTRACT OF PROGRAM Meeting Places: Holiday Inn, 1460 South University Avenue, Telephone, 374-9750. Rodeway Inn, 1292 South University Avenue, Telephone, 374-2500 Thunday 9 October 10:00-12:00 Western Lit Assoc. Registration 12:00Western Lit Assoc. Luncheon—Speaker Walter Van Tilburg Clark 8:00 p.m. Meeting of RMMLA Executive Board Afternoon: Western Lit Assoc., 2 sessions of meetings Evening: Western Lit Assoc., business meeting 100RMMLA BulletinSeptember 1969 Friday 10 October 8:00-4:00 Registration and banquet tickets, Rodeway Inn, Foyer Book Exhibits, Holiday Inn Banquet Room 9:00-10:30 RMMLA Sections: English Language and Linguistics, Modem Languages IIA, Modem Languages HB, Modern Languages HD, Western American Folklore, Symposium: Hemingway-Faulkner. 10:45-12:15 RMMLA Sections: Comparative Literature, English III, English IVA, Medieval and Classical Literature, Modem Languages I, Modem Languages HC, Symposium: Social Sensitivity 12:15-2:30 Luncheon Break 2:30-4:00 RMMLA Sections: Dramatic Literature, English IA, English II, English IVB, English V, Modem Languages III, Symposium: film, Our Newest Language .· 7:30Banquet, Wilkinson Center, Brigham Young University Speaker: Michel Butor, French Novelist and Critic, Visiting Professor of French Literature, University of New Mexico, "Criticism and Creation." Saturday 11 October 8:00Breakfast for officers, Exeuctive Board members, new and old section chairmen, Rodeway Inn Goldroom 9:30-10:30 RMMLA Business Meeting, Rodeway Inn Banquet Room 10:30MLA New Study Commission Hearing, Liselotte Dieckmann, Rodeway Inn Ball Room 10:30Junior College English Program (by invitation) Thursday 9 October 10:00-12:00 Western Lit Assoc·. Registration 12:00Western Lit Assoc. Luncheon—Speaker: Walter Van Tilburc Clark 8:00 p.m. Meeting of RMMLA Executive Board-Rodeway Inn, Small Conference Room Afternoon: Western Lit Assoc., 2 sessions of meetings Evening: Western Lit Assoc., business meeting Program101 Friday 10 October English IB: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Literature. 9:00-10:30 a.m. Holiday Inn Conference Room 233 Chairman: Walter E. Edens, University of Wyoming Vice-Chairman: James D. Merriman, Wichita State University Business: Election of officers, etc. Henry J. Laskowsky, University of Wyoming, "Two Ways of Reading Dryden's 'Religio Laid.' " Although Dryden's "Religio Laici" fails in its attempt to solve the theological problems which it poses, the poem is successful and affecting when read as a type of dramatic monologue with special attention to the tones of the speaking voice. S. J'. Sackett, Fort Hayes Kansas State College, "Gulliver Four: Heve We Go Again." Swift's Yahoos show one side of man's nature—original sin, Popean self-love, the Freudian id—and the Houyhnhnms another—freedom from original sin, Popean reason, the Freudian super-ego. And in the implicit third element of human personality to mediate between the other two, Swift raises the question to which the concept of the ego is the answer. Edward L. Hart, Brigham Young University, "The Warton Brothercraft: Unpublished Correspondence." The hundreds of unpublished British Museum letters to and from Thomas and Joseph Warton, in correspondence with each other and with Malone, Warburton, Percy, Steevens, and Gray, incorporate the poetics of the brothers and particularize die close assistance Üiey lent each other in...