See you there?

[John M. Krafft]

Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb. 27 -
Mar. 1, 2003

In addition to the usual roundtable on Pynchon held Thursday evening from 9:00
on in the Seelbach bar, here are panels of special interest:

F-7	Teaching Twentieth-Century Anglophone Literature: Toward a Pedagogy of
Diversity (Prearranged Panel)
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 p.m.	Room: 	121
Chair: 	Lidan Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Lidan Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
"Meeting the Twain of East and West: A New Approach in Teaching The
Twentieth-Century British Novel"
Eunjung Park, Seoul National University
"Teaching Thomas Pynchon in a Multicultural Context"

G-9	Postmodern Fiction: Theoretical Concerns in Readings of Pynchon, and
Donald Barthelme
Saturday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.	Room: 	217
Chair: 	Daniel Manheim, Centre College
Mira Sakrajda, Westchester Community College
"Dining with the Holy Ghost: The Tenuous Axiology of Postmodernism"
Brandi Stanton, Indiana University
"'The Same Universe of Discourse': The Language of Literary Criticism in
Barthelme's Snow White"

H-4	Rainbow Redux: Rereading Pynchon's Big Book
Saturday, 10:45 - 12:15 p.m.	Room: 	219
Chair: 	John Krafft, Miami University
Gregory W. Wright, Michigan State University
"Dowsing for Destruction: The Nihilism of the Commodity/Spectacle in Thomas
Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow"
Chao B. Li, Miami University
"Pynchon's Luddite Use of Time in Gravity's Rainbow"
Max Braverman, Edmonds, Washington
"Gravity's Rainbow, a Touchstone"

I-8	America in Fiction: Doctorow, Morrison, Pynchon, Roth
Saturday, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.	Room: 	208
Chair: 	John Krafft, Miami University
Samuel Cohen, City University of New York
"The Novel of Retrospect in the American Nineties"
Marshall Bruce Gentry, University of Indianapolis
"Mary Kathryn Behan's Conversions in Doctorow's Billy Bathgate"
Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville
"Plato's Pharmakon for Roth's Human Stain"


The full program and other details about the conference are online at the U of
L's website <http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/cml/xxconf/>.

jmk

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John M. Krafft
Miami University--Hamilton / 1601 Peck Boulevard / Hamilton, OH 45011-3399
Tel: 513-785-3258 or 513-868-2330
Fax: 513-785-3145
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