Eleventh John Donne Society Conference: Program
February 15-17, 1996
Gulfpark Conference Center of the University of Southern Mississippi
Note: Registration is still possible. Please Contact Professor Mary
Papazian, Department of English, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
48309-4401. Phone: (810)
370-2250.
papazian@vela.acs.oakland.edu
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
- 4.30-5.30 p.m.
- Welcome: EUGENE R. CUNNAR, Executive Director, John Donne Society
- Presiding: PAUL G. STANWOOD, President, John Donne Society
- Address: "Music for Donne"
BRYAN N. S. GOOCH
University of Victoria, Canada.
- 6.00-7.00 p.m. Opening Reception
- 7.00 p.m. Dinner
- 8.30 p.m. Reception
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16
- 7.30-8.30 a.m. Breakfast
- 9.00-10.30 a.m. Session 2
- Chair: THERESA M. DI PASQUALE, Florida International University
- "Donne and the Prince D'Amour"
T. G. S. CAIN, University of Newcastle, U.K.
- "Donne and Henry Wotton Reconsidered"
DENNIS FLYNN, Bentley College
- "'Idiosyncracy' and Communal Aesthetics in John Donne and Ben Jonson"
CONRAD OLSON, Allegheny College
- Respondent: ALBERT C. LABRIOLA, Duquesne University
- 10.30-11.00 a.m. Coffee Break
- 11.00-12.00 noon. Session 3
- Chair: WYMAN H. HERENDEEN, University of Windsor
- "John Donne: A Poetics of Parting"
SUSANNAH B. MINTZ, Rice University
- "'Thou art the best of mee': A. S. Byatt's Possession and the
Literary Possession of Donne"
MAURINE SABINE, University of Hong Kong
- Respondent: DIANA TREVINO BENET, New York University
- 12.30-1.30 p.m. Lunch
- 2.00 p.m.-3.30 p.m. Session 4
- Chair: JEANNE SHAMI, University of Regina
- "'hee ment to insinuate . . . his doctrine': Rhetorical Dissimulation in
Donne's 'John of Salisbury' Problem"
MICHAEL W. PRICE, Purdue University
- "'Unscholarlike Arguings': Situating Donne's Psevdo Martyr in
the Oath of Allegiance Controversy"
DOUG TREVOR, Harvard University
- "Who was? What was?: In Search of Light in / with Donne's Christmas
Sermon, 1621"
MARIA SALENIUS, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Respondent: RICHARD WOLLMAN, Simmons College
- 3.30-4.00 p.m. Coffee Break
- 4.00-5.00 p.m. Session 5
- Presiding: PAUL G. STANWOOD, University of British Columbia
- Address: "Squaring the Circle: Metaphors of the Divine in the Work of Donne
and His Contemporaries"
HELEN WILCOX, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- 5.15-6.00 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting,
EUGENE R.CUNNAR, presiding
- 5.30-6.30 p.m. Southern Arts Collegium Musicum,
DANA O. RAGSDALE, Director
- 6.30-7.30 p.m. Dean's Reception
- 7.45 p.m. Dinner at "Chappy's"
- 10.00 p.m. Reception
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17
- 7.30-8.30 a.m. Breakfast
- 9.00-10.30 a.m. Session 6
- Chair: ERNEST W. SULLIVAN, II, Virginia Tech University
- "Donne's 'Lamentations' and Fetherstone's Lamentations . . .in prose
and meeter (1587)"
TED-LARRY PEBWORTH, University of Michigan-Dearborn
- "Horrid Shapes and Pitious Minde: Abject Sight in 'What if this present
were the worlds last night?'"
ELAINE PEREZ ZICKLER, Moorestown, NJ
- "Donne's 'Unmeete Contraryes': The (Re)formed Conscience and the
Triangulation of Religious Desire"
CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN, University of Memphis
- Respondent: GRAHAM ROEBUCK, McMaster University
- 11.00 a.m. -12.15 p.m. Session 7
- Chair: EMMA ROTH-SCHWARTZ, Winona, MN
- "Satire IV: An Introduction to Donne's Engagement with Elizabethan Visual
Culture"
ANN HURLEY, Skidmore College
- "The Unwomanly Verse of the Anniversaries"
ELIZABETH HODGSON, University of British Columbia
- Respondent: PAUL PARRISH, Texas A & M University
- 12.30-1.30 p.m. Lunch and Business Meeting (during lunch)
- Presiding: EUGENE R. CUNNAR, New Mexico State University
- 2.00-3.30 p.m. Session 8
- Panel Discussion: "What if this present were the worlds last night?"
- Chair and Moderator: R.V. YOUNG, North Carolina State University
- Panelists:
- HELEN BROOKS, Stanford University
- MARY A. PAPAZIAN, Oakland University
- CLAUDE J. SUMMERS, University of Michigan-Dearborn
- 3.30-4.00 p.m. Coffee Break
- 4.00-5.00 p.m. Session 9
- Presiding: PAUL G. STANWOOD, President
- Presidential Address: "Biblical Erotics: The Song of Songs and
Donne's Songs and Sonets"
ACHSAH GUIBBORY, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
- 6.00-7.00 p.m. Reception
- 7.00 p.m. Shrimp Boil on the Beach (weather permitting)
- 9.30 p.m. Reception
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18
- 8.00-9.00 a.m. Breakfast and Departures.
[JM, RGS, PGS, JW; January 18 1996]