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TheAmericanShortStory: AnExpansionoftheGenre An American Literature Association Symposium Sponsored by the Society for the Study of the American Short Story October 20-22, 2016 Symposium Director: James Nagel, University of Georgia Hyatt Regency Savannah Two W Bay Street Savannah, Georgia 31401
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TheAmericanShortStory: AnExpansionoftheGenreAn American Literature Association Symposium Sponsored by the Society for the Study of the American Short Story October 20-22, 2016 Hyatt Regency Savannah Two W Bay Street Savannah, Georgia 31401 Symposium Director: James Nagel, University of Georgia Acknowledgments: Theconferencedirectorwishestoexpresshisappreciationtoanumberofpeoplewhoprovidedhelpwithplanningtheprogram,especiallymycolleaguesintheSocietyfortheStudyoftheAmericanShortStory.OliviaCarrEdenfield,ExecutiveCoordinatorofAmericanLiteratureAssociation,handledallhotellogisticsandarrangementsandservedasSiteDirector.OliverScheiding,JohannesGutenberg-Universität,servedasInternationalCoordinator,advertisingthesymposiuminEuropeandencouragingcolleaguesinAmericanStudiestoattend.DustinAndersonhelpedinmanyways,especiallyintakingresponsibilityforthesocietywebsiteandhandlingtechnicaldetails.Manyotherpeoplecontributedtimeandeffortinorganizingpanelsandotheraspectsoftheprogram,amongthemRobertClark,GloriaCronin,andascoreofscholarsacrossthecountrywhoorganizedpanelsforthismeeting.IalsothankDartmouthCollegeformycontinuingappointmentasaResidentScholarandtheuseofBakerLibrary,amostcongenialenvironment.MyroleasEidsonDistinguishedProfessorEmeritusattheUniversityofGeorgiaallowsmetocontinuethemostimportantinstitutionalconnectionofmylife.IofferspecialthankstoAlfredBendixen,thefounderandExecutiveDirectoroftheAmericanLiteratureAssociation,withoutwhosegenerousassistancethissymposiumwouldnothavebeenpossible.
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Thursday,October20,2016
Registration
5:30-7:30p.m.
(ScarboroughFoyer)
WelcomeReception
5:30-7:30p.m.
(SavannahRoom)
SpecialEvent
6:45p.m.
AReadingby
JudithOrtizCofer
(SavannahRoom)
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Friday,October21,2016
Registration:8:00-8:40a.m.(ScarboroughFoyer)
Program
Session1-A:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughOne)ContemporaryWritersChair:BenjaminMangrum,DavidsonCollege1.“EarthasMementoMoriinDonDeLillo’s‘HumanMomentsinWorldWarIII,”R. MacJones,UniversityofSouthCarolina2.“ApproachingRichardBrautigan’sTheTokyo-MontanaExpressthroughBuddhist Non-duality,”ClaraReiring,UniversityofDuesseldorf3.“NarrativeEmpathyandShortFiction:TheCuriousCaseofGeorgeSaunders,” MichaelBasseler,JustusLiebigUniversity(Giessen,Germany)Session1-B:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughTwo)AmericanWomenWritersChair:RobertLuscher,UniversityofNebraska,Kearney1.“WritingPoverty,Race,andClassfromaBlackSouthernPerspective,”Caroline Gebhard,TuskegeeUniversity2.“JaneAddams’sGenderedCounter-Narratives:StorytellingtoClaimGendered PoliticalAgency,”SarahRuffingRobbins,TexasChristianUniversity3.“AsItWasintheBeginning:TheGothicinEarlyIndigenousLiterature,”CariM. Carpenter,WestVirginiaUniversity4.“`Mostremarkablefruits’:EnvironmentalEducationinStowe’sQueerLittle People,”KarenL.Kilcup,UniversityofNorthCarolina,GreenboroRespondent:KarenA.Weyler,UniversityofNorthCarolina,Greensboro
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Session1-C:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughThree)AmericanShortStoriesChair:StevenFlorczyk,LongwoodUniversity1.“Close(d)ReadingandExpansiveMeaninginJessieFauset’sShortStories,” MasamiSugimori,FloridaGulfCoastUniversity2.“AlienationandthePeculiarInstitutioninShortstoriesbyMachadodeAssisand CharlesChesnutt,”MichaelJanis,MorehouseCollege3.“Isolation,Intimacy,andtheComfortofClutterinT.C.Boyle’s`Filthywith Things’,”AvisHewitt,GrandValleyStateUniversity
SpecialEvent
ARoundtableDiscussion
Session1-D:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughFour)MemoryandTime:SaulBellow'sTietoHisFamilyofOrigin:"TheOldSystem" and"BytheSt.Lawrence"Chair:GloriaCronin,BrighamYoungUniversityPanelists:GregBellow,AdamBellow,LieshaBellow,DanielBellow,AlexandraBellowSession2-A:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughOne) Jewish American Stories I Chair,VictoriaAarons,TrinityUniversity1.“ReadingMalamud's‘MagicBarrel’asStory,Collection,andLecture,”Sandor Goodhart,PurdueUniversity2.“J.D.Salinger's‘Seymour’andtheJewishSensibility,”HileneFlanzbaum,Butler University3.“‘Iamthefiction;thesuitcaseismyself’:ElisaAlbert’sRothianFiction,”Aimee Pozorski,CentralConnecticutStateUniversity
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Session2-B:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughTwo)ModernIssuesChair:RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia1.“Zitkala-ŠaandPaulineJohnson:AmongtheFirstWomentoCarrytheNative VoiceintotheMainstream,”EkaterinaKupidonova,UniversityofNebraska2.“CrossingBordersofNationandRaceinLangstonHughes’sTheWaysofWhite Folks,”JoshuaMurray,UniversityofAkron3.“DestabilizingPowers:TheWorkofMachinesinErnestHemingway’s‘InAnother Country’,”LisaNarbeshuberandLanceLaRocque,AcadiaUniversitySession2-C:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughThree)NewStrategiesintheShortStoryChair:OliverScheiding,UniversityofMainz1.“LydiaDavisandtheTerribleHumiliationofReading,”LynnBlin,UniversitéPaul- ValéryMontpellier3(France)2.“DerrickBell’sSci-FiStories:AfricanAmericanSatire,Law,andtheMythofPost- RacialAmerica,”ChristopherA.Shinn,HowardUniversity3.“CommodityFetishisminFrankChin’s‘RailroadStandardTime’,”ZeinebAbbassi, UniversitédeSousse(Tunisia)Session2-D:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughFour)TheStory-CycleNovel:ANecessaryFictionChair:AlfredBendixen,PrincetonUniversity1.“TheFemaleBildung:EmbodyingtheStoryCyclefromJewetttoPorter,” CandaceWaid,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara2.“RecognitionandReflectioninTheGoldenApples:TheStory-CycleNovelas ResistancetoNarrativeImperialism,”LeahFayeNorris,Universityof California,SantaBarbara3.“IsThereaFront-PorchNovelandHowDoesItRelatetotheBackPorchof Fiction?”TrudierHarris,UniversityofAlabama4.“PuzzlePiecesandPartsBecomingWhole:TowardaTribalographyofErdrich,” ShirleySamuels,CornellUniversity
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Session3-A:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughOne)
JewishAmericanStoriesIIChair:GloriaCronin,BrighamYoungUniversity1.“TheMeltingPotandProgressiveReform:AnziaYezierskaandtheJewish AmericanFuture,”SharonOster,UniversityofRedlands2.“’Envy’:CynthiaOzickMeetsMelanieKlein,”AndrewGordon,Universityof Florida3.“BernardMalamud’sKleyneMentshelekh:ShortStoriesasParablesof Conscience,”VictoriaAarons,TrinityUniversitySession3-B:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughTwo)NewFormsofShortFictionChair:DustinAnderson,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity1.“Vignettes:Micro-FictionsintheNineteenthCenturyNewspaper,” RyanCordellandJonathanFitzgerald,NortheasternUniversity2.“JackLondon’s‘TheDreamofDebs’andWorking-ClassAgencyinthe NaturalistShortStory,”JonFalsarellaDawson,UniversityofGeorgia3.“EmbracingtheReligiousBackcountry:ChrisOffutt’sKentuckyStraightas MythopoeticCollage,”PhilippReisner,HeinrichHeineUniversity (Düsseldorf)Session3-C:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughThree)
NewApproachesChair:RobertLuscher,UniversityofNebraska,Kearney1.“ConnectiveTissueinLinkedShortStories:Place,Character,ImagePatterns,and Theme,”WarrenG.Green,DominicanUniversity2.“AmericanStoriesofWar:TimO’BrienandPhilKlay,”KellyRoyPolasek, WayneStateUniversity3.“DarkNightoftheSoul:ComplicatingRaceinWelty’s‘TheDemonstrators’,” CharlesTyrone,ArkansasTechUniversity
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Session3-D:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughFour)
ContemporaryStories
Chair:JamesW.Thomas,PepperdineUniversity
1.“TheOctoberCountry:TheUnheimlichHomesofRayBradbury,”TracyFahey, LimerickSchoolofArtandDesign(Ireland)2.“PoetryandPolitics,LaborandLove:Carver,Spahr,Buuck,andPermanent Impermanence,”DianaRosenberger,WayneStateUniversity3.“LeroyandNormaJeanMeetRock,Doris,andDr.StrangeloveinBobbieAnn Mason’s`Shiloh’,”DeborahWilson,ArkansasTechUniversity
SpecialEvent:Lunch:1:00-2:10(Windows)
Speaker:JamesNagel
“TheFutureofthe
SocietyfortheStudyoftheAmericanShortStory”
Registration:1:30-2:00
(ScarboroughFoyer)
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Session4-A:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughOne)
AfricanAmericanShortStoriesChair:MaryemmaGraham,UniversityofKansas1.“TheCivilRightsMovementandtheBlackShortStory,”JuliusFleming, UniversityofMaryland2.“Geo-TaggingEdwardP.Jones,”KentonRambsy,UniversityofTexasatArlington3.“AfricanAmericanShortStoriesonFilm,”DanteJames,UniversityofDayton4.“LiteracyandthePowerofCommunicationinOctaviaButler’sShortStories,” BrianaWhiteside,UniversityofAlabamaSession4-B:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughTwo)StoriesoftheAmericanSouthChair:J.GeraldKennedy,LouisianaStateUniversity1.“Numbered,Numbered:CommemoratingtheCivilWarDeadinConstance FenimoreWoolson’s`RodmantheKeeper’,”KathleenDiffley,Universityof Iowa2.“PeterTaylor’sAestheticofDarkness,”ThomasF.Haddox,Universityof Tennessee3.“ErnestGaines’sBloodline:Race,Region,Masculinityandthe ShortStoryCycle,”JohnWhartonLowe,UniversityofGeorgiaSession4-C2:20-3:50(ScarboroughThree)NewWritersontheAmericanSceneChair:JamesW.Thomas,PepperdineUniversity1.“FemaleMadnessandtheHazardsofBlackNationalBelonginginAyanaMathis’s TheTwelveTribesofHattie,”CarolineA.Brown,UniversityofMontreal2.“IndiansinAmerica:CulturalandGenderedContactZonesinChitraDivakaruni’s `SilverPavements,GoldenRoofs’,”MarilynEdelstein,SantaClaraUniversity3.“PossessionandNorthAmericanIdentityinAnneHébert’s`Letorrent’,”Conor Scruton,WesternKentuckyUniversity
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Session4-D2:20-3:50(ScarboroughFour)ARoundtableDiscussion:“InterestingIntersections:WhenShort StoriesbecomeFilm”Chair:JamesH.MeredithParticipants: AllenJosephs,UniversityofWestFlorida JeanneFuchs,HofstraUniversity JamesH.Meredith,ColoradoStateUniversity--Global KathleenRobinson-Malone,EckerdCollege E.StoneMeredith,ColoradoStateUniversity--Global
Session5-A4:00-5:20(ScarboroughOne)
EdgarAllanPoeChair:RichardKopley,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,DuBois 1."ReconstructionsofPoe's'TalesoftheFolioClub'since1928:Approachesand Prospects,"AlexanderHammond,WashingtonStateUniversity2."EdgarAllanPoe,'PsycheZenobia,'andtheTraditionofAnti-FeministGothic Satire,"DavidCody,HartwickCollege3."FethersandSpectacles:HowMusicShapesGenreinPoe'sShortStories," CharityMcAdams,ArizonaStateUniversitySession5-B4:00-5:20(ScarboroughTwo)AmericanWomenWritersChair:DonnaM.Campbell,WashingtonStateUniversity1.“`EyeswithoutSpeakingConfesstheSecretsoftheHeart:’EdithWhartonand LouisaMayAlcott,”DebraRyals,PensacolaStateCollege2.“TheArtist’sDilemmainCather’s‘ComingAphrodite!”TracienneRavita,Georgia StateUniversity3.“`InPraiseofQuietStories’:TheDramaticImpetusofKindnessinWendellBerry andSarahOrneJewett,”MatthewForsythe,RollinsCollege
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Session5-C4:00-5:20(ScarboroughThree)NewApproachestotheShortStoryChair:DustinAnderson,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity1.“PedagogyandtheShortStory,”BrianneJaquette,CollegeoftheBahamas2.“TeachingStylesinShortStories:UsingCarver’s‘ASmallGoodThing’and Faulkner’s‘BarnBurning’asExamples,”SuocaiSu,CityCollegeofChicago3.“`CreaturesofHabit’:TheRoleofHabitsinShortStoryCharacterCreation,” ThomasW.Howard,JacksonCollege
Session5-D4:00-5:20(ScarboroughFour)NewViewsofAmericanStoriesChair:OliviaEdenfield,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity1."GothicOriginsoftheAmericanShortStory:Irving,Poe,Hawthorne," AlfredBendixen,PrincetonUniversity2.“WhyDansieandJosieSleep:ImaginingDeathinAfricanAmericanStories,” EmilyDeHaven,UniversityofKentucky3.“TheRepresentationsoftheDeceasedin`Spunk’byZoraNealeHurstonand `ClarenceandtheDead(AndWhatDotheyTellYouClarence?AndtheDead SpeaktoClarence)’byRandallKenan,”SharonLynetteJones,WrightState UniversitySession5-E4:00-5:20(Savannah)NewReadingsofShortFictionChair:LeeClarkMitchell,PrincetonUniversity1.“UrbanSpaceandPoliticalAgencyinAliceDunbar-Nelson’s‘ThePearlinthe Oyster,”SidoniaSerafini,UniversityofGeorgia2.“GothicProjectionsofMadnessandRacialInferiority:ThePerilsofHyper- Rationalityin"TheFalloftheHouseofUsher"and"BenitoCereno," JohnGruesser,KeanUniversity3."DiagnosesofJhumpaLahiri'sInterpreterofMaladies,"BradleyEdwards, GeorgiaSouthernUniversity
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SpecialEvent:Reception
5:30-7:00
(Windows)
KeynoteAddress:
J.GeraldKennedy
“NationalStrangenessinthe
AntebellumTale”
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Saturday,October22,2016
Registration:8:00-8:40a.m.(ScarboroughFoyer)
Session6-A:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughOne)
ContemporaryShortStoriesChair:RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia1.“Metaphysics,Positivism,andtheTruthofFiction:RebeccaGoldstein’s‘Legacyof RaizelKaidish’,”EmilyBudick,HebrewUniversityofJerusalem2“ChuckPalahniuk’sLivingDead:GenerationMe’s‘Zombies’intheAgeof Depression,”PatrickOsborne,FloridaStateUniversity3.“TheWorstandBestShortStoryJohnUpdikeEverWrote,”JamesW.Thomas, PepperdineUniversitySession6-B:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughTwo)NewApproachestoF.ScottFitzgerald:ReinventingtheCanonical, RecoveringthePopularChair:KirkCurnutt,TroyUniversity1."Can'tBuyMeLove:CommodificationandRedemptioninF.ScottFitzgerald's 'ThePopularGirl'(1922),"FarrahR.Senn,Brewton-ParkerCollege2."‘Absolution’(1924)andTransnationalIdentities,"DustinAnderson,Georgia SouthernUniversity3.“Visualizing‘TheRichBoy’(1925):F.ScottFitzgerald,F.R.Gruger,andRed BookMagazine,”JenniferNolan,NorthCarolinaStateUniversitSession6-C:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughThree)NewFormsofShortFictionChair:BradleyEdwards,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity1.“MorphingGenres:NovelsinFlashandFlashCycles,”JenniferJ.Smith, FranklinCollege2.“SpeculativeFiction:BackintheBeginningoftheEndoftheWorldwithJunot Diaz’s`Monstro’,”ChristianeE.Farnan,SienaCollege3.“DecenteredNarrativesandFantasticOthernessinKellyLink’sPostmodern AmericanFairyTales,”AndrewM.Hakim,PrincetonUniversity
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Session6-D:8:40-10:00(ScarboroughFour)
Women, God, and Violence in the Short Fiction of Andre Dubus
Chair: James Meredith, Colorado State University, Global
1. “Saving Maid Marian: Southern Chivalry in the Short Fiction of Andre Dubus,” Olivia Carr Edenfield, Georgia Southern University 2. "The Theological Implications of Andre Dubus's 'A Father's Story'," Patrick Samway, S.J., St. Joseph’s University 3. "Opening Sentences, Eruptive Violence, in Dancing after Hours," Lee Clark Mitchell, Princeton University
Session7-A:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughOne)AmericanWomenWritersandtheShortStoryChair:DonnaCampbell,WashingtonStateUniversity1.“TheEchooftheInnerVoice:HowWomenWritersPioneeredtheInterior MonologueintheShortStoryForm,”SaraRutkoski,CityUniversityof NewYork2.“DorothyCanfieldFisher’sHillsboroPeople:FeministShortStoryandFounding VermontState,”CeillieClark-Keane,NortheasternUniversity3.“TheRevolutionaryShortStory:SandraCisneros’sWomanHolleringCreek,” SoniaAlvarezWilson,CatawbaCollegeSession7-B:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughTwo)NewConsiderationsChair:BradleyEdwards,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity1.“PeterTaylor:SupernaturalPresencesintheLateStories,”DavidM.Robinson, OregonStateUniversity2.“DoctorMartino’sOtherStories:UnityandCohesioninThese14,”KirkCurnutt, TroyUniversity3.“HumorandHorrorinTwoStoriesoftheHolocaustbyNathanEnglander,”Frank G.Novak,PepperdineUniversity
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Session7-C:10:10-11:30(ScarboroughThree)Nineteenth-CenturyIssuesChair:JohnWhartonLowe,UniversityofGeorgia1.“MaternalMoralityandMourning:WomanhoodinRebeccaHardingDavis’sCivil WarFiction,”PaulaRawlins,UniversityofGeorgia2.“TheNational‘AbortiveRomance’in‘EthanBrand’,”AllanBenn,EastStroudsburg University3.“ReadingtheAnimals:Faulkner’sExpansionofMelville’sEpistemological ExpeditionintotheWilderness,”ElizabethH.Swails,UniversityofGeorgiaSession7-D: 10:10-11:30(ScarboroughFour)Hemingway’sShortFictionChair:StevenFlorczyk,LongwoodUniversity1.“TheEbroRiverValleyin‘HillsLikeWhiteElephants’,”MarieMullins, PepperdineUniversity2.“Adaptation,Extrapolation,andHemingway’s‘TheKillers’,”LesaCarnesShaul, UniversityofWestAlabama3.“”PaulinePfeiffer’sSafariJournalasaSourceforHemingway’s`TheSnowsof Kilimanjaro’,”DennisB.Ledden,IndependentScholarSession8-A:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughOne)AmericanModernismChair:MatthewForsythe,RollinsCollege1."TheComplexDesignofSherwoodAnderson's'Hands',"RichardKopley, PennsylvaniaStateUniversity2.“Race,Phenomenology,andO’Connor’sShortFiction,”BenMangrum, DavidsonCollege3.“ReversedGenderRolesandProstitutioninFitzgerald’s‘HeadandShoulders’,” PaulBlom,IndependentScholar
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Session8-B:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughTwo)WomenCharactersintheShortStoryChair:NicoleCamastra,UniversityofGeorgia1.“LaurenGroff’s‘GhostsandEmpties’andtheLiteraryParadigmoftheWalking Woman,”NinaBannett,NewYorkCityCollegeofTechnology2.“TheMedicalisSocial:ReexaminingRetrospectiveDiagnosisin‘TheYellow Wallpaper’,”EmilyBanks,EmoryUniversity3.“HomosexualAvoidanceandtheDestructionoftheFemaleinPoe’s‘TheBlack Cat’,”UrshelaWigginsAtkins,PolkStateCollegeSession8-C:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughThree)PerspectivesfromtheSavannahCollegeofArtandDesignChair:WeihuaZhang,SavannahCollegeofArtandDesign1.“ShatteringtheLiteral:FlanneryO’Connor’sViolentIntention,”MaryAswellDoll, SavannahCollegeofArtandDesign2.“SexualIdentitiesinYiyunLi’sAThousandYearsofGoodPrayers,”MaryChi-Whi Kim,SavannahCollegeofArtandDesign3.“VoicesofRealPeople:StoriesofChineseImmigrantsinHaJin’sAGoodFall, WeihuaZhang,SavannahCollegeofArtandDesignSession8-D:11:40-12:50(ScarboroughFour)NewExplorationsChair:KirkCurnutt,TroyUniversity1.“Trauma,theMissing,andFracturedLivesinLuisCamachoRuiz’sBarefootDogs,” RobLuscher,UniversityofNebraska,Kearney2.“RelationalAutonomyintheShortStoryCycle,”HelenaKadmos, MurdochUniversity(Australia)3.“RomancesofReunionintheShortFictionofBretHarte,”TaraPenry,BoiseState University
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SpecialEvent:Luncheon:1:00-2:10(Windows)
Speakers:
DanteJames,TheAfrican-AmericanFilmSeries
RichardLayman,TheShortStoryProject
Session9-A:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughOne)
EarlyTwentiethCenturyChair:JohnWhartonLowe,UniversityofGeorgia1.“GoodInstinctsinJackLondon’s‘SouthoftheSlot’,”KennethBrandt,Savannah CollegeofArtandDesign2.“Dreiser’sCinematicModernism:‘Victory’asPrecursortoCitizenKane,” RoarkMulligan,ChristopherNewportUniversity3.“EdithWharton’sSuspenseTheater:NaturalismandGothicModernisminthe 1920sStories,”DonnaM.Campbell,WashingtonStateUniversitySession9-B:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughTwo)HemingwayandtheArtoftheShort-StoryCycleChair:RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia1.“Hemingway’sModernistManifesto:InOurTimeandtheShort-StoryCycle Genre,”,”StevenFlorczyk,LongwoodUniversity2.“’Thewarwasalwaysthere’:MenWithoutWomenasaShort-StoryCycle,” BradMcDuffie,NyackCollege3.“Musicandthe‘PerseveringTraveler’:WinnerTakeNothingasaModernist Short-StoryCycle,”NicoleCamastra,UniversityofGeorgia
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Session9-C:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughThree)ApproachestoContemporaryStoriesChair:MeganFlanery,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity1.“TheSouthernStoriesofRonRash,”LisaAbney,NorthwesternStateUniversity2.“OneThousandDozenMarketableGoods:AnHistoricalCritiqueofaLesser KnownJackLondonShortStory,”TerrenceCole,UniversityofAlaska Fairbanks3.“TheStreetCarnival:RecurrentMotifsinCisnero’sTheHouseonMangoStreet,” LaceyB.Rogers,UniversityofNebraskaKearneySession9-D:2:20-3:50(ScarboroughFour)NewConsiderationsoftheStoryFormChair:BradleyEdwards,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity1.“TheExpansionoftheGenre:FromtheStoryCycletoMicrofiction,” OliverScheiding,UniversityofMainz(Germany)2.“RhapsodyandRequiem:TheInfluenceofWho’sAfraidofVirginiaWoolfonthe ShortStoriesofRaymondCarver,”JoshTemples,GeorgiaSouthern University3.“AnUnlikely‘Patriot’:ReconsideringtheShortFictionofMeridelLeSueur,” LisaKirby,CollinCollegeSession10-A:4:00-5:20(ScarboroughOne)StudiesinModernismChair:BradleyEdwards,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity1.“F.ScottFitzgerald’sLaterSaturdayEveningPostStories:FindingtheQuirksof NewPlotLinesin1929,”NancyVanArsdale,EastStroudsburgUniversity2.“WhoNeedsMasculinity?”MargaretBockting,NorthCarolinaCentralUniversity3.“TheStoriesofDashiellHammett,”RichardLayman,Publisher,Columbia,SC Session10-B:4:00-5:20(ScarboroughTwo)FlanneryO’ConnorandBretHarteChair:MatthewForsythe,RollinsCollege1.“NietzscheWentDowntoGeorgia:ExistentialAnxietyinO’Connor’s‘AGoodMan IsHardtoFind’,”DavidPolanski,IndependentScholar
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2.“AdrianTomine’sKillingandDyingandtheMinimalistAmericanGraphicShort Story,”RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia3.“RomancesofReunionintheShortFictionofBretHarte,”TaraPenry, BoiseStateUniversitySession10-C:4:00-5:20(ScarboroughThree)AmericanRealismChair:LeeClarkMitchell,PrincetonUniversity1.“HowStephenCraneRevolutionizedNaturalismwiththeShortStory,”JeremyK. Locke,UniversityofTennessee2.“Whatis`Pace’inStephenCrane’s`ThePaceofYouth’,”BrianGingrich,Princeton University3.“ReadingNewOrleansStories,”JamesNagel,UniversityofGeorgia
ClosingReception5:30-7:00
(Windows)
SpecialEvent
AReadingofOriginalShortStoriesbySSASSMembersChair:RobertClark,CollegeofCoastalGeorgia1.KirkCurnutt,TroyUniversity2.RichardKopley,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity3.JenniferMemolo,ClarksonCollege