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MEETINGS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 1:15-6:00 RMMLA Executive Board(Room 108) 1:15 to 2:45 ENGLISH: English Renaissance Literature(Cimarron) Presiding: Eugene England, Brigham Young University Secretary: John Thomas, Brigham Young University Evelyn Gajowski, Case Western Reserve University. "The Female Perspective in Othello." Bruce W. Young, Brigham Young University. "The Scapegoating of Hamlet." Pamela Houston, University of Utah. "Assuming Man's Infirmities: An Examination of Old and New Forms of Storytelling in Pericles." Karin Anderson, Brigham Young University. "Godly Deceit in Shakespeare and the Bible." GENERAL TOPIC: Comparative Literature(San Agustín) Presiding: Deborah Gaensbauer, Regis College Secretary: Edward A. Geary, Brigham Young University Dowling G. Campbell, Northern Arizona University. "The Last Literary Word on Eve: A Cultural Mind-Set." Roger Martin, Regis College. "Labyrinths in the Writing of Umberto Eco and Luis Borges." Walter C. Putnam, III, University of New Mexico. "Representations of Africa: Conrad and Céline." CONJOINT MEETING: Popular Culture(Tularosa) Presiding: Felicia Campbell, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Secretary: Arlen Collier, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Julie Barry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Mrs. Calabans: Beauties and Their Beasts." Arlen Collier, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "The Unbearable Lightness of Film: Kundera in Two Media." Armand Singer, West Virginia University. "The Humorous Don Juan in Popular Culture." 125 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 1:15 to 2:45 (continued) FOREIGN LANGUAGE: French-Canadian Literature (Lost Padre) Presiding: Annabelle Rea, Occidental College Secretary: Claudine Fisher, Portland State University Gaétan Brulotte, University of South Florida. "La Représentation du corps chez Ringuet." Lucie Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal. "L'Ecriture au Féminin: Perspectives Historiques." 2:55 to 4:25 FOREIGN LANGUAGE: German Literature Before 1900 (Room 117) Presiding: Tiiu V. Laane, Texas A & M University Secretary: Sally Winkle, Eastern Washington University Erich H. Ritter, Texas A & M University. "Die Affenmensch-Episode als Archimedischer Punkt zur Interpretation von Raabes 'Die Akten des Vogelsang.'" Tiiu V. Laane, Texas A & M University. "Louise von François' Female Characters: Images of Entrapment and Freedom." Roger Crockett, Texas A & M University. "Nestroy's Diaboli ex Machina: Good and Evil Relativized." GENERAL TOPIC: Literary Criticism(Tularosa) Presiding: Kathryn Kinczewski, University of Denver Susan Staker, University of Utah. "The End of Semiosis, the Limit of Invention: Language and Life in Umberto Eco and Joseph Conrad." Bud Fairlamb, University of Houston, Victoria. "Theory in Deconstruction ." Dean Rehberger, University of Utah. "Kenneth Burke and Antonio Gramsci: The Rhetoric of the Symbolic Act." Lisa Orme Bickmore, University of Utah. "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis: Analysis as Coercion." Advance copies of the papers may be obtained from Kathryn Kinczewski, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Denver, University Park, Denver, Colorado 80208-0293. Please send $3 for photocopying and postage. 126 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 2:55 to 4:25 (continued) FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Luzo-Brazilian Language and Literature (Lost Padre) Presiding: Myriam Ramsey, Brigham Young University Secretary: Ronald D. Dennis, Brigham Young University Reynaldo Pagura, Brigham Young University. "The Problem of Gender Assignment in Portuguese as a Second Language." Jon M. Tolman, University of New Mexico. "Travessia, a Video-Based Approach to Teaching Portuguese." TEACHING: Technical Communication(Illusions) Presiding: Sherry Burgus Little, San Diego State University Secretary: Michael Gilbertson, Oregon Institute of Technology M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Memphis State University, and Laurie Jones, Texas Tech University. "Icon, Index, and Symbol: A Semiotic Approach to Teaching Document Design." Maggie Sturdivant, M. H. Sturdivant & Associates, Inc. "Human Factors Research in Restructuring Procedures." G. Douglas Meyers, University of Texas at El Paso. "Designing Documents for Responding Readers." Cezar M. Ornatowski, San Diego State University. "The Ideology of Technical Communication: Professionalism and the Politics of Discourse in Technical Writing." SPECIAL TOPIC: Feminist Perspectives: Foreign Language Women Writers(San Agustín) Presiding: Joyce Carlson-Leavitt, University of New Mexico Frank O'Brien, Hollins College. "Contemporary Women Writing in Irish." Rowena Rivera, University of New Mexico. "Lourdes Espinóla: The Marginalized Aesthetics of a Paraguayan Poet." Margaret M. Willen, Eastern New Mexico University. "Ladies and Guerrillas: Analyzing the Pizan-Wittig Connection." Helena Goscilo, University of Pittsburgh. "Fatal Formulas: Tatiana Tolstaia's Reversal of Gender Stereotypes." SPECIAL TOPIC: Western and Southwestern Literature (Cimarron) Presiding: Reed Way Dasenbrock, New Mexico State University James Work, Colorado...

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