5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH

The Global Short Story New Or eans, June 27-30, 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English "THE GLOBAL SHORT STORY"

New Orleans, June 27-30, 1998 Hotellnter-Continental- All Sessions

Saturday, June 27

8:30 a.m. REGISTRATION [THIRD F LOOR LOBBY]

9:00 a.m. WELCOMING REMARKS [LA SALL E BALLROOM B/C] Mary Roh rberge r, Executive Director Ma urice A Lee, Director

Please note that, throughout the conference, books on related subjects or by attending authors will be on sale in the ACADI AN ROOM

9:30 a.m. PANEL A: WRITERS' AND CRITICS' ROUND TABLE: ECHOES FROM A DISTANT BATTLEFIELD­ SHORT FICTION FROM VIETNAMESE NATIONALS AND VIETNAMESE AMERICANS [PELI CAN ROOM 1] Randy Fertel, moderator, Tulane University Mary McCay, Loyola University Wayne Karlin, short fiction writer An dy Lam, short fiction writer and commentator on Asian Affairs for NPR Eric Scroeder, University of California at Davis

PANEL B: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: THE TICKING CLOCK-COMMITTING AND SOLVING MURDER IN UNDER 15 PAGES [PELICAN ROOM 2] Robert Skinner, fiction writer, moderator, Xavier University Bill Cri der, fiction writer O' Neil DeNoux, fiction writer Skye Moody, fiction writer

PANEL C: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: ROMANCE FICTION [FULTON R OOM] Rexanne Becnel, moderator, fiction writer Karen Young, fiction writer Kathleen Nance, fiction writer Anne Logan , fiction wn"ter

PANEL D: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: GENDER IDENTITY AND THE SHORT STORY [POYDRAS ROOM] Ellen Douglas, fiction writer, moderator Anthony Bukowski, fiction writer Natalie Petesch, fiction writer Mary Robison , fiction writer ~ --r:; t\1 W~ Ieh 11 :00 a.m. PANEL A: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: ETHNIC IDENTI TY IN THE SHORT STORY [PELICAN R OOM 1] Janette Turner Hospital , moderator, fiction writer , fiction writer Ernest Gaines, fiction writer Diane Glancy, fiction writer Simon Ortiz, fiction writer Andy Lam, fiction writer June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 2

Saturday, 11:00 a.m., cont'd.

PANEL B: VISIONARY FICTION & MAGIC REALISM [JACKSON ROOM] Barbara Mciver, moderator, Claflin College "A Prophetic Vision of the Past: 's 'A Place Where the Sea Remembers'" Andrea Herrera, State University of New York at Fredonia "The End of the World: Closure and the Fantasies of Bo rg es and Millhauser" David Sheridan, Michigan State University "Teaching Magic Realism in Short Fiction" Mary Ellen Hartje, Angelo State University - Texas

PANEL C: KATe CHOPIN [POYDRAS ROOM] '''Desiree's Baby' Emancipating Readers" Brewster Filz, moderator, Oklahoma State University "The Third Telegram: Interpreting My stery and Death in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'" Kurt Neumann, Harper Community College - Naperville, IL "Shifting the Grounds of Being: The Spiritual Geography of Chopin's 'Athenaise'" Barbara Ewel l, Loyola University "Offering Refuge and Delivering Betrayal: An Analysis of Speech Representation in 'Desiree's Baby '" Sherry Manis, San Francisco

PANEL D: GENRE I (FULTON ROOM] "Genre, Gender and the Idea of Fiction Under Seige: Story as Autobiograficti on" Glenda Lindsey-Hicks, moderator, Midland College - Texas "First-Person Short Story or Personal Essay: A Genre Iss ue" Charlie McMurty, Angelo State University - Texas "Beyond Genre: English-Canadian Surrealist Short Fiction" Allan Weiss, York University - Canada "Anglo-Irish Identity: Th e Gothi c in Elizabeth Bowen's Irish Stories" R. C. Feddersen, Oklahoma State University

READINGS (PELICAN ROOM 2] Introduction, Kelly Grant, University of Brenda Webster Katharine Crawford Robey Peter 8 ell is Abram Shalom Himelstein

[Lunch Break]

1:30 p.m. READINGS [LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC] Introduction, Morris Grubbs, Lindsey Wilson College - Kentucky Rudolfo Anaya Shirley Ann Grau Ernest Gaines Mary Robison

3:00 p.m. PANEL A: POE AND MELVILLE [POYDRAS ROOM] "From the Rural Cemetery Movement of Spirit Photography: Poe and the Revenge of the Exquisite Corpse" Judith Pike, moderator, Salisbury State University "Poe's 'Life' and Hawthorne's 'Death'" Richard Fusco, Sf. Joseph's University - Philadelphia "Melville' s Signifyin(g) Shadows The Mutiny of Form in Melville's 'Benito Cereno'" Roberta Jill Craven, University of North Carolina at Carrboro "Patricidal Pup pets in Search of a Playwrite: Theatrical Imagery in Melville's Short Fiction" Gwen Crane, State University of New York at Oneonta June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 3

Saturday, 3:00 p.m., cont'd.

PANEL B: SHIRLEY ANN GRAU [PELICAN ROOM 2] Mary Rohrberger, moderator, Tula ne University '''The Black Prince' as Title Story " Maurice duQuesney, University of Southwest "Strong Women" Nancy Johnson, La Sa lJe University "Nine Women Reconsidered" John Saunders, West Virginia Wesleyan

PANEL C: POST-COLONIAL SHORT STORY [FULTON R OOM) Belen Martin-Lucas, moderator, Universidad de Vigo · Spain "The View From the Window: Two Expatriate Iran ian Women Writers" Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto - Canada "Post-Colonial Impressions: The Short Story as Liberatory Practice" Jill Kinkade, University of Southern Indiana "Narrative Snapshots of New Zealand's Diverse Family Patricia Grace 's Electric City and Other Stories" Michael Young, Robert Morris Col/ege

PANEL 0 : HEMINGWAY AND FITZGERALD [PELICAN ROOM 1J Wayne Scott, moderator, Claflin College "Seeking Eternity in the Snow: The Question of Harry as an Artist in 'The Snows of Ki limanjaro'" Nick Pici, University of Dayton "Quite Sure You'll (Never) Die in Hemingway and Rhys" Faye Pickram, York University - Canada "Fantasy in 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'" Andrew Spencer, Baylor University "' Babylon': Revisiting the Text" George Bellis, University of Minnesota

4:30 p.m. PANEL A: PEDAGOGY I (POYDRAS ROOM) . Teaching Recalcitrant Literature Through 'A Soldier's Embrace' by N. Gordimer Zenobia Baxter Mistri, moderator, Purdue University - Calumet "Teaching the Short Story in a Multi-Media Classroom" Tara Starr Pyne, University of South Florida - Tampa .. Teaching Recalcitrant Literature Through the Stories of an d Nadine Gordimer" Li nda McMillan, Purdue University - Calumet "Teaching Ambiguity: Adult Stories for Ad olescent Readers" Peter Stephan, University of Cyprus

PANEL B: GENDER I [PELI CAN ROOM 1) "Jane Smiley's Ordinary Love and Good Wii/: Gender, Genre, an d the Novella" Neil Nakadate, moderator, Iowa State University "Moving Beyond the Feminine: Feminist Critical Interpretation and the Short Story" Caryn M. Voskuil, University of Texas - Dallas "'Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong': Tim O' Bri en's (Feminist) Heart of Oarkness" Terry J. Martin and Margaret Stiner, Baldwin-WalJace College - Berea , OH

PANEL C: GENRE II [PELICAN ROOM 2] "Genre and the Work of Reading in Ma nsfield's 'Prelude' and 'At the Bay'" Suzanne Ferguson, moderator, Ca se Western Reserve University "The Reader as Character / The Character of th e Reader in Andrew Lytle's 'Mr. McGregor'" Tony Whall, Salisbury State University "Irony and the Implied Reader in the Short Fiction of Dorothy Parker" Stephanie Burt Williams, University of North Carolina at Charlotte June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 4

Saturday, 4:30 p.m., cont'd.

PANEL 0: LOUISIANA AND THE SHORT STORY [FULTON ROOM] Nancy Johnson, moderator, La Salle University "Sites of Struggle: Ada Jack Carver's Cane River Stories" El izabeth Meese, University of Alabama "Rewriting the Final Adjustment of Affairs: Culture, Ra ce, and Politics in Alice Du nba r-N elson's New Orleans" Jurgen Grandt, University of Georgia "Grace King 's Reconstruction of the Old So uth " Evelyn Koppel , Nunez Community College

Sunday, June 28

9:00 a.m. MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE SHORT STORY: Reports, open discussion, and nomination of new officers (LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC} Mary Rohrberger, Founder and Executive Director Susan Lohafer, President

9:30 a.m. PANEL A: LANGUAGE & SYMBOL (FULTON ROOM] Zia Hasan, moderator, Claflin College "Impression ism in Crane's 'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky'" Winifred Morgan , Edgewood College - Madison, WI "Fl an nery O'Connor and the Limits of th e Symbol" Troy Thibodeaux, New York University "Natu re Dominates: The Impact of Env ironment on Character Development in Janette Turner Hospital's Short Stories 'The End-of-the-line End-of-the-world Disco ' and 'Our Own little Kakadu'" Donna Davis, University of Northern Iowa

PANEL B: THEORY I [POYDRAS ROOM] "Formalism is Not a Fad" Charles E. May, moderator, Califomia State Un iversity at Long Beach "Redemptive Landscapes as Theme in the Short Story " Hilary Siebert, Radford University "Literary Artifacts: Ekphrasis in the Sho rt Fiction of Donald Bart helme and " Michael Trussler, University of Regina "Closure in the Short Story: Curtailing a Dre am" Emmanuel Yaw Appiah, Center for Action on English - Ghana

PANEL C: WRITERS' AND CRITICS' ROUND TABLE: SHORT STORY CYCLE [PELI CAN ROOM 1] Robert Luscher, moderator, University of Nebraska at Ke amey Suzanne Ferguson, Case Westem Reserve University Shirley Ann Grau, fiction writer J. Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State University Jayne Anne Phillips, fiction writer Tom Piazza , fiction writer June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 5

Sunday, 9:30 a.m., cont'd.

PANEL 0: GENDER II [PELICAN ROOM 2) ~ "Women Writers: Storytelling as a Movement 'Toward Wholeness'" Gayle Elliot, moderator, St. Lawrence University "Pin-Ups, Pleasure and Pain Ambiguities of Sexua lity in the Short Stories of Mary Gaitskill" Morgan Love, University of Groningen - The Netherlands [read by Cynthia Hallett] "Female Dominance in Marriage Relationships in the Short Stories of Katherine A. Porter" Linda Byrd, Sam Houston State Univers ity

11:00 a.m. PANEL A: THE SHORT STORY AND DRAMATIC FORM I [PELI CAN ROOM 2] Introduction , Tisch Jones, University of Northern Iowa Scharron Clayton, moderator, University of Northern Iowa Part I: "Short Stories into Film or Television ," Steven Rosentha l Part II : A Readers' Theater Performance by Dillard University students of "The Blue Vein Society," a play by Sam Kelly based on Charles Chesnutt's short story, "Wife of My Yourth." Tisch Jones and Dillard faculty and stUdents

PANEL B: EDITORS' ROUND TABLE [PELICAN ROOM 1] Maurice A. Lee , moderator, Journ al of Ca ribbean Literature Michael J. O'Shea , Garth Kemerling, Corinne Dale, Studies in Short Fiction Farhat Iftekharrudin, Short Story Jack Bedell. Louisiana Literature Sophia Stone, New Orleans Review Michael Griffith. The Southern Review

PANEL C: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE ON STORY ENDINGS [FULTON ROOM) Skye Moody, fiction writer, moderator Moira Crone, fiction writer Tom Piazza, fiction writer Brenda Webster, fiction writer

READINGS [POYDRAS ROOM] Introduction, Ellen Harrington, Tulane University Andrea Herrera Poppy Z. Brite George Alec Effinger

12:30 p.m. I LUNCHEON [LA SALLE BALLROOM A] PRESENTATION OF CONTEST WINNERS: B B C WORLD SERVICE, presented by Elis abeth Edwards Marg uert te Laurence , Bedfordale - Western Australia Janet Keiffer, Colorado SSSS SHORT STORY CONTEST WI NNERS , presented by John Biguenet, Loyola Univ. 1998 Winners First Pla ce : Alli son McNeill Second Place : Andrea Simon Honora ble Mention: Paula Martin, Leo Dubray 1997 Winners First Place: Tom Chiarella Second Place: Joan Heck Honorable Mention : Nancy Roberts , Stanka Radovic

SPEAKER: KENNETH RAMCHAND, introduced by Maurice A Lee June 1998 Fifth Intern ati onal Confe rence on the Short Story in English Page 6

Sunday, cont'd.

2:00 p.m. PANEL A: B B C CHAT ON THE SHORT STORY: HISTORY, PRODUCTION, WINNERS [PE LICAN ROOM 1J B B C World Service: Introduction, Elisabeth Edwards Readings: Ma rguerite Laurence, Be dforda /e - Western Australia Janet Keiffer, Colorado

PANEL B: REALISM (POYDRAS ROOM] "Finding the Worm in the Apple: John Cheever and Middle-Class Anxiety" Robert Beuka, moderator, Louisiana State University "' What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' and 'Rock Springs': Raymond Carver and Rich ard Ford Cra ft the Anti-parables of Dirty Realism" Tamas Dobozy, Unive rsity of British Columbia '''Where I'm Calling From'" Inside the Loop" Robert Johnson, Midwestern State University · Texas "Envyi ng the Leisure Class: Rereading Jean Stafford's T he Mountain Day''' Ca thryn Halverson, University of Michigan

PANEL C: THE SHORT STORY AND POLITICS [PELICAN ROOM 2] "Tribal StorIes, Scribal Worlds: Mahasweta Devi and the Politics ofTranslation" Minoli Salgado, moderator, University of Sussex - England "Creating Nation al Fictions: H. G. De Lisser's 'Story of the Maroons'" Hyacinth Simpson, Yo rl< University - Canada "Wharton's Short Fiction of War: The Politics of 'Coming Home '" Mary Carn ey, University of Georgia

3:15 p.m. PANEL A : CRITICS' ROUND TABLE: HISTORY AND DeVELOPMENT OF TH E SHORT STORY [PELI CAN ROOM 1] Ann Cha rters, moderator, University of Connecticut Charles E. May, University of California at Long Beach Susa n Lohafer, Mary Roh rberg er. Tulane University Kenneth Ramchand , University of the West Indies Morris Grubbs, Lindsey Wilson College - Kentucky

PANEL B: SHORT STORY CYCLE I: ETHNIC IOENTITY IN THE SHORT STORY [PELICAN ROOM 2] "Winesburg, Mexico: Albert Alvaro Rios' Pig Cookies and Other Stories" Charles Dameron, moderator, University of Texas at Brownsville "Form and Structure: Sandra Ci sneros's The House on Mango Street' Farhat Iftekharrudin, University of Texas at Brownsville "Imagining th e Reservati on in Winesburg Form: 's Th e Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfigh/ in Heaven" Robert Luscher, University of Nebraska at Keamey

PANEL C: THE SHORT STORY AND DRAMATIC FORM II [POYDRAS ROOM] Introduction, Beverley Byers Pevitts, moderator, Texas Women's University A dramatic reading of "The Enemy," by J.E. Frankli n, based on her story of the same name. Tisch Jones and Dillard faculty and students

READINGS [LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC] Introduction, Joh n Saunders, West Virginia Wesleyan Tom Piazza Patty Friedman Lawrence Wharton Ca ry n Voskuil c-,

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Sunday, cont'd.

4:30 p.m. READINGS [LA SALLE BALLROOM B/C] Introduction, Allan Weiss, York University - Canada Janette Turner Hospital Anthony Bu kowski Astrid Roemer Marion Bloem

U Monday, June 29 I 9:00 a.m. PANEL A: PEDAGOGY II [FULTON ROOM) "Revisiting Workshopping: Structuring the First Workshop Experience" John Childrey. moderator, Florida Atlantic Unive rsity "Situating Gender in the Short Story Workshop" Susan Hubbard, University of Central Florida "Bobbie Ann Mason and The New Yorker The Crafting of a Short Story Writer" Morns Grubbs, Lmdsey Wilson College - Kentucky "Teaching Jack London's 'To Bu ild a Fire' in Alaska" Terry Reilly, University of Alaska - Fairb anks [read by Cynthia Hallett]

PANEL B: SHORT STORY CYCLE II [POYDRAS ROOM] "The Genre Which is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference , and the Short Story Cycle" Peter Donahue, moderator, Sam Houston State University "Canadian Short Story Cycles in English A Communal Sense of Place" Belen Martin-Lucas, Universidad de Vigo - Spain "The Lines that Bind: Intertextuality in Hemingway's In Our Tim e and Ri chard Brautigan 's Tro ut Fishing in America and Revenge of/he Lawn: Stories 1962-1970" Brenda M. Palo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Narrator as Unifying Factor in Win esburg, Ohio" Michael Depp, University of New Orleans

PANEL C: 20TH-CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS [JACKSON ROOM ] "Romantic Irony in Grace Paley and Virginia Woolf' Charlotte Zoe Walker, moderator, State University of New York al Oneonla "Motherhood as Conflict in Katherine An ne Porter' s Short Fiction" Susana Jimenez Placer, Universidad de Santiago de Compos tela - Spa in ''The Ambiguities of History in Alice Munro's T he Love of a Good Woman " Mary Conde, University of London "The Challenge of Welty's 'June Recital'" Donna Jarrell, Case Weste m Reserve Un iversity

PANEL 0: CARIBBEAN SHORT STORY [PELI CAN ROOM 1] "Creole Languages in Short Stories from the Caribbean" Sharon Spencer, moderator, Montclair State University "Social and Textual Polyphony: Language in the Short Fiction of Jamaican Women Writers" Ana Bringas-Lopez, Universidad de Vigo - Spain ·Womanist Traditions in Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam : Short Stories by Caribbean Women " Supriya Nair, Tulane University June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 8

Monday, 9:00 a.m., cont'd.

PANEL E: THE AMERICAS [PELICAN ROOM 2] "Trickster or Buffoon?: Clever Stupidity in 'Pelt Kid and His Grandmother'" Will Crawford, moderator, University of Illinois "Cuentitos on Religion, Culture , and Life's Vicissitudes: 's 'Little Miracles, Kept Promises'" Albert Griffith, Our Lady of the Lake University · Texas "B uilding the Bridge: Robert Gish's Meditation on Ethnic Problems" Noor Isl am, University of Texa s at Brownsville

10:1 5 a.m. READINGS [LA S ALLE BALLROOM B/C] Introduction, Charl es E. May, California State University at Long Beach Ellen Douglas Diane Glancy Nata lie Petesch Tom Whalen I J {lunch Break]

1:30 p.m. PANEL A: THEORY II [PELICAN ROOM 2] "A Democracy of Letters: Best Short Stories and th e Literary Aesthetic of Edward J. O'Brien" Jacquelyn Spa ngler, moderator, Ohio State UniverSity "Baby in the Bathwater: Indeterminacy in Robert Coover's 'The Babysitter'" Andrew Sang im ino, Michigan State University "The Fringe Story: Or, How to Integrate the Res isting Text" Rolf Lunden, Uppsala University · Sweden "Gathering Souvenirs of 'City Life': the 'Material Grammar' of Donald Ba rthel me and Walter Benjamin" Tim Waltonen , George Washington University

PANEL B: HAWTHORNE [FULTON ROOM] "Hawthorne's T he Gray Champion' and the (Re)Emergence of the Ameri can Spirit" Michael Cody, moderator, University of South Carolina at Columbia "Robin Molineux's Kinsman: Hawthorne's 'David Swan'" C. P Seabrook Wi lkinson, University of South Carolina "Hawthorne's Hypnagogic Imagery in Several Short Stories " Susan K. H. Kurjiaka, Florida Atlantic University

PANEL C: SHORT STORY CYCLE III: ABOUT WOMEN [PELICAN ROOM 1] "Jean Too mer's Cane" Don Petesch , moderator, University of Pittsburgh "Creating a Self: Short Sto ry Cycles and Women' s Identity" Karen E. Weekes, University of Georgia "The Paradox of Female Identity in Steinbeck's Th e Pasture of Heaven" Charlotte Rich, University of Georgia "Jean Toomer's Twilight Ladies: Feminine Power and Paradox in the Short Story Cycle Ca ne" Sally Bishop Shigley, Weber State University

PANEL 0 : WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: , FANTASY, AND HORROR [POYDRAS ROOM] Barbara Hambly, moderator, fiction writer George Effinger, fiction writer Poppy Z. Brite, fiction writer June 1998 Fifth International Confere nce on the Short Story in English Page 9

Monday, cont'd.

3:00 p.m. PANEL A: WRITERS' ROUND TABLE: THE GLOBAL SHORT STORY [PELICAN RO OM 1] Rudolfo Anaya, moderator, fiction writer Janette Turner Hospital, fiction writer Simon Ortiz, fiction writer Ernest Gaines, fiction writer Velma Pollard, fiction writer George Clark, fiction writer

PANEL B: GLOBAL ApPROACHES TO KINGSTON'S THE WOMAN WARRIOR AS SHORT STORY [PELICAN ROOM 2] "Postmodern Approaches to The Woman Warrior" Jennie Wang, moderator, University o { Northern Iowa "Pigeon or Pin Yin: Kingston's Creolizati on" Mary Gravitt, University of Northern Iowa "Turning Silence into Speech: Chinese Legends in The Woman Warrior" Diah Ariani Arimbi, University of Northern Iowa "Language and Identity in Th e Woman Warrior. A Lacanian Reading" Michelle Van Wert, University of Northern Iowa

READINGS: 1997 AND 1998 SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS [POYDRAS ROOM ] Introduction, Troy Thibodeaux, New Yorl< Univers ity Allison McNeill Andrea Simon Pa ula Martin

4'30 p.rn. READINGS A [PELICAN ROOM 1] IntrodUction, Larry Wharton, University ofAlabama at Birmingham John Biguenet Wayne Karlin Andy Lam Charlotte Zoe Walker

READINGS B [PELICAN ROOM 2] Introduction, Mauri ce A. Lee, University of Northern Iowa Minoh Salgado Juani Guerra George Clark Larry Gnffin

READINGS C [POYDRAS ROOM] Introd uction, Paula Hilton, University of New Orleans Liz Rosen Maxine Conant Catherine Krotzer-Laborde Jonathan Leavitt

6:30 p.m. BANQUET [LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC] READING: ALICE MUNRO, introduced by Susan Lohafer (made possible in part by the Canadian Consulate in Dallas) June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 10

Tuesday, June 30

9:30 a.m. PANEL A: GENDER III [PELICAN ROOM 1) "'Something More Th an That': Deconstructi ng Gender in Peter Taylor's '1939'" S. L. Yentzer, moderator, University of Georgia "The Didactic Judgment of a Woman Writer in Bessie Head's The Col/ector of Tre asures" Lorretta Sted, San Francisco Stafe University "Reply to Patriarchy: The Reconstruction of Self and Others in th e Short Stories of Alicia Gaspar de Alba" Gerdien Blom, University of Groningen -The Netherlands "Living in a World of Make-Believe: Fantasy, Female Identity and Modern Short Stories by Women in the British Tradition" Adrienne Gavin, Canterb ury Christ Church College

PANEL B: TRANSLATION, INFLUENCE, AND CANONICAL TEXTS [PELICAN ROOM 2] Cynth ia Hallett, moderator "The Ho rror, The Horror: Canonical Texts' Infl uence in Bill Manire's 'Cannibals'" Cath erine Ramsdell, Auburn University "Hawthorne's Critique of Plato in 'The Birthma rk'" Michael Crowley, University of Georgia "Beasts of Desire: The Lure of Sexual Archetypes in Angela Carter's Short Fiction" John Breitmeyer, University of New Orleans "Translating the Short Story" Marie-Odile Fortier-Masek

READINGS [POYDRAS ROOM) Introduction, Paula Martin, University of New Orleans Mirian Ben-Yoseph O' Neil DeNoux Skye Moody Mark Whitaker Sandy Huss

11 :00 a.m. READINGS [LA S ALLE BALLROOM B/CJ Introduction, Charles Dameron, University of Tex as at Brownsville Simon Ortiz Velma Pollard Jayne Ann e Phillips Moira Crone

1 :00 p.m. PANEL A : THEORY III [PELI CAN R OOM 2) "A Topographical Visualization of the Short Sto ry: julio Cortazar' s 'Continuity in the Parks ' and Francine Prose's 'Rubber Li fe ': Two Case Studies" Juani Guerra, moderator, Canary Islands "A Place for th e Short Story" Victoria Sferlazza, Naussau Community College - New York "Dialectic Outline of th e Micronarrative" Antonio Planells and Lila de Jubecourt, University of Northern Iowa "Plagiarizing Chekhov" Susan Pepper Robbins and Rosalind Hingeley, Hampden-Sydney College

PANEL B: JOYCE AND DAVENPORT [PELICAN ROOM 1] "The In active Short Story: Dead and Living Narratives in James Joyce's Oubliners" Howard Martin Lindh olm, moderator, Michigan State University "His Journey Westward: Gabriel's Ambiguous Epiphany in 'The Dead'" Blake Bailey, University of New Orleans "The Fourierist Parables of Selected Short Stories by Guy Davenport" Pa trick Meanor, Sta te University of New York at On eonta "Translating th e Modern Short Story : Drying Out Joyce's 'Clay '" Teresa Calleda Cabrera, Univetsidad de Vigo - Spain June 1998 Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English Page 11

Tuesday, 1 :00 p.m., cont'd.

PANEL c: DISCUSSION OF THE SHORT STORY IN THE NETHERLANDS [FULTON R OOM] Wanda Boeke , moderator Astrid Roemer Marion Bloem

READINGS [POYDRAS ROOM] Introduction, Rebecca Trainor, Tulane University T im Parrish Jocelyn Paxton Paula Hilton Rita Washam

2:30 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS FROM CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Where Do We Go From Here? [LA SALLE BALLROOM BIC] Mary Rohrberger, Executive Di rector Maurice A. Lee, Director

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