BCLA Eighth International Conference

LEGENDA
Reading and Writing Myth

UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER
15-18 JULY 1998

PROGRAMME

Plenary Speakers

PIERO BOITANI (University of Rome-La Sapienza): Ulysses towards 2001.
ALAN GARNER (Novelist and Broadcaster): The scoundrel tail (language and myth).
GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI (University of Sussex): A tale of a heel and a hip.
ELINOR SHAFFER (University of London): Myths of Community: The Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998.
MARINA WARNER (Novelist and Essayist): Zoomorphies: The perils and seductions of Circe's enchantments.

Panel Speakers

SANDRA ADAMS (Department of English, University of Macau, Macau): The Lord of the Flies as myth.
NATALIA AGAPIOU (Department of French, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece): Endymion: The inexhaustible resources of a Greek myth.
GILLIAN ANIA (Department of Italian, University of Hull, England): Music as myth in Paola Capriolo.
HUGO AZERAD (Selwyn College, Cambridge, England): Epiphany as the aura of myth in Proust and Faulkner.
FRANCES BABBAGE (School of Cultural Studies, Nene College, Northampton, England): Fatal attraction: The rusalka reborn in Zinaida Gippius' Sacred Blood.
ISIL BAS (Department of English, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey): Shahmaran: The Great Goddess survives.
JOHN S. BATTS (Department of English, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada): Writes of passage: Crossing Neptune's line in nineteenth-century diaries.
SIAM BHAYRO (Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London, England): Cosmic conflict in the Apocalpyse.
IULIAN BOLDEA AND TATIANA IATCU (Petru Maior University, Mures, Romania): Parallel myths in Romanian and English folklore.
SHERRYL H. BOOTH (Department of English, Santa Clara University, California, USA): Breaking and making myth: Adult women and new myths for a postmodern age in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride.
CHANTAL BOURGAULT: Upright citizens on all fours: Grotesque excesses in nineteenth-century representations of the werewolf.
ANTONELLA BRAIDA (St Catherine's College, Oxford, England): William Blake and Dante: The revolutionary implications of the illustrations to the Divine Comedy.
JUTTA BRAIDT (Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley, USA): Romantic parabasis: Wordsworth, Friedrich Schlegel and the disfiguration of reading "what is to be read".
SARAH BROOM (Brasenose College, Oxford, England): Myth and fairy legend in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's poetry.
DAVID BROTTMAN (Cultural Studies, University of East London, England): The gaze of "the Greys": hegemonic vision and the return of the unsightly to contemporary culture - reflections in/on an evil eye.
PENNY BROWN (Department of French, University of Manchester, England): Transformations: Reason and imagination in the nineteenth-century fairy tale.
JOHANNA BUISSON (Trinity College, Cambridge, England): The myth of Babel and the dream of a "lyric Esperanto" in European poetry from Apollinaire to Henri Michaux, Paul Celan and Ted Hughes.
LEON BURNETT (Department of Literature, University of Essex, England): Experience and explosion: Revisiting Madame Sosostris.
FRANCES CAUSER: The shamaness, the whore and the beautiful fool: The masks worn by Japanese women in the essays and fiction of Fumiko Enchi.
NICOLA CHATTEN (ENCAP, Cardiff University of Wales): The humanization of a myth: Ovid's Tereus in John Gower's Confessio Amantis.
ROBERT CHURCHILL (Department of English, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA): "And the hero was made flesh and dwelt amongst them": Tennyson as archetypal hero.
MERRILL COLE (Department of French, University of Washington, Seattle, USA): Mythological desire and the male lesbian: Reading Baudelaire's "Femmes damnées".
MARY-ANN CONSTANTINE (Department of Welsh, University of Wales Aberystwyth): "Owls and flowers": The faces of Blodeuwedd.
LAURENCE COUPE (Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, England): Sacred time, sacred place: Mythology in the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Gary Snyder.
GERALDINE COUSIN (School of Theatre Studies, University of Warwick, England): The red-bellied queen: Foursight Theatre Company's exploration of the legendary Warrior Queen.
MIGUEL CRESPO (Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, England): The genealogical character of modernist re-enactments of ancient writers.
PETER CRISP (Department of English, Chinese University, Hong Kong): The pragmatics of allegory: From myth and prophesy to apocalypse and after.
PATRICK CROWLEY (Department of French, Royal Holloway College, London, England): Chaotic forms: The nebulous texts of Pierre Michon and Eugène Savitzkaya.
JOAN CURBET (Departament de Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Catalunia): Labyrinths of language: Babel revisited in the works of Dickens, Kafka and Borges.
SIRA DAMBE (Department of Classics, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa): Viridis senectus: The paradoxical myth of vigorous old age from Theocritus' Idyll I to Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
SARAH DEL COLLO (London, England): "The cruelty of savage manners": Yeats, Deirdre and her Victorian admirers.
M.-JOSEPHINE DIAMOND (Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, USA): Benedikte Naubert's "The Cloak": A spider in the web of Grim(m) romantic folk tales.
BEATRIZ DOMINGUEZ GARCIA (Centre for Women's Studies/Department of English, University of Huelva, Spain): The fairies' heritage: Sheri S. Tepper's Beauty and the fairytale lineage.
LEENA EILITTA (Insitute of Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki, Finland): Kafka's Darwinist re-reading of metamorphosis.
LUDMILLA EVITMOVA (University of Shoumen, Bulgaria): "Passionnément dans l'avenir se mire le passé": Past and present dreams/anxieties haunting the artists and poets of Symbolism.
LUDMILLA EVITMOVA and GLYN HAMBROOK (Universities of Shoumen, Bulgaria, and Wolverhampton, England): "Synecdoques sinistres et métonymies mortelles": A revisitation of the image of the femme fatale in European Symbolist literature.
CHARLES FORSDICK (Department of French, University of Glasgow, Scotland): Refiguring revolution: The myth of Toussaint L'Ouverture in C.L.R. James and Edouard Glissant.
CHRISTIEN FRANKEN (Department of English Literature, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands): The Melusine mythology in A. S. Byatt's Possession.
MARIA JOSÉ GAMEZ FUENTES (Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham, England): Virginia Woolf, re-creating the myth: A portrait of the artist as a woman in the fiction of Ana María Navales.
CARLA GNAPPI: The Miltonic legacy of Kubla Khan.
ROLF J. GOEBEL (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA): Benjamin in Tokyo: Urban modernity and the myth of bureaucratic power.
MICHELLE LEIGH GOMPF (Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA): Malory's Arthur and Blake's Albion: Two visions of the same myth.
CHRISTOPHER GRABOWSKI (Department of English, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland): J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth: from a mythology for England to a recovery of the real Earth.
BRIAN GRAHAM (University of Glasgow, Scotland): Mythology today.
HÉLÈNE GREVEN (Maison des Langues et des Cultures, Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France): Fall and rebirth: Myth as structure and imagery in twentieth-century utopian/dystopian fiction.
NICK GROOM (Department of English, University of Exeter, England): Demonic Chatterton.
GREG HAINGE (Department of French, University of Nottingham, England): The art of automythography: The role of myth in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Germanic Trilogy.
GLYN HAMBROOK (University of Wolverhampton, England): Reclaiming tradition: Juan Ramón Jiménez's literary influences.
KATE HAMMER (Department of Drama, Roehampton Institute, London, England): Performing myth: A question of agenda.
SEUNG EOK HAN (Department of Korean Literature, Keimyung University, South Korea): Light in Mallarmé's mythology and the Zen vision of the void.
SUSAN HARROW (Department of French, University of Wales, Swansea): Through Zola's magnifying glass: Subverting Second Empire culture in La Curée.
JESSAMY HARVEY (Department of Spanish, Birkbeck College, London, England): Displacing the wolf: Girlhood, sex and violence in Carmen Martín Gaite's re-telling of "Little Red Riding Hood".
ELIZABETH HEDGECOCK (University of Liverpool, England): Hopeful monsters: The Woman in White and Great Expectations.
ROBERT HEMMINGS (Department of English, University of Toronto, Canada): The topography of palimpsest: Wordsworth's legacy in Blunden and Sassoon.
ALEXANDRA HENDRIOK (Department of Literature, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England): Frank McCourt and the circular quest for deliverance: America revisited.
MALTE HERWIG (The Queen's College, Oxford, England): Beautiful biology: The scientific transformation of myths in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
DANIELLE HIPKINS (Department of Italian, University of Warwick, England): The syren song of the text: Male myth readings in contemporary Italian women's writings.
CAROLINE HOFFMANN (Department of English, University of Le Havre, France): A journey through narrative valleys: The writing and rewriting of heroic myth in Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time.
ANNA HOLLAND (St Hugh's College, Oxford, England): "Tying down Proteus": Metamorphosis and identity in Renaissance lyric poetry.
YUAN HONGGENG: Sherlock Holmes in China.
SUSAN HOPKIRK (Department of Comparative Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada): Reading (in) the medieval romance: The construction of a didactic mythology.
AMBER JACOBS (Department of English, University of Sussex, England): The desires of Orestes: Matricide - severance - deliverance.
JANCY JAMES (School of Theatre Studies, University of Warwick, England): Decolonising the canon: Subversive retellings of epics and legends in contemporary Indian writing.
SIV JANSSON (London, England): Heroic myth in writing for children.
DAVID JONES (Darwin College, Cambridge, England): Aesthetic myth: Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett - two German letters, two parallel aesthetics.
DESPINA KAKOUDAKIS (Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley, USA): Rooms of lonely facts: The consumed self, the archive and the apocalypse in Don DeLillo's Libra and Mao II.
MATTHEW KIBBLE (School of English and Drama, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, England): Fantasies of origin: H. D. (Hilda Dolittle) and matriarchy.
ANITA KLUJBER (Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, England): Recontextualisation of the mythological quest in Edgar Allan Poe's The Man of the Crowd.
JOANNE KNOWLES (Department of English, University of Liverpool, England): The "spell of supreme romance": Henry James and the myths of Old World culture.
LUDMILA KOSTOVA (University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria): Journeying into "darkest Europe": Encounters with primitive others in nineteenth-century British and French travel writing and narrative fiction.
CYNTHIA KRAMAN (College of New Rochelle, New York State, USA): Decoding the Knight's Tale: Chaucer's dark myth of creation.
KAREN LEEDER (New College, Oxford, England): Angels: Necessary fictions for the millennium.
KATHERINE LEVIN (Interdisciplinary Program in Literary Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA): The power of perception: Monstrosity and invisibility in folklore fiction.
HENRI LIEUTAUD (Department of English, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France): Fairy-tale pattern and comedy in The Merchant of Venice.
CHARLIE LOUTH (Department of German, University of Bristol, England): Figures of transition: Centaurs in Hölderlin and Goethe.
ANN LAWSON LUCAS (Department of Italian, University of Hull, England): The purposes of pirates: Historical and mythical, tragical and comical, ancient and (post)modern.
NICOLETTA MCGOWAN (Department of Languages, Manchester Metropolitan University, England): In search of one's self: A reading of two short stories by Katherine Mansfield and Elsa Morante.
DONALD MACKENZIE (Department of Classics, University of Glasgow, Scotland): History as myth: Virgil and others.
CHANTELLE MACPHEE (Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, Scotland): William Blake's The French Revolution: A Shakespearean tragi-historical composition.
CATHERINE MARGERRISON (French Studies, University of Lancaster, England): Cannibalism and matriarchy: Mythical women in the later fiction of Albert Camus.
SIMON MEALOR (Hertford College, Oxford, England): "And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth": Revelation 21 and myths of homecoming by Huguenot refugees in Elizabethan England.
KITTY MILLET (Department of Comparative Literature and Classics, California State University, Long Beach, USA): Marginal romantics and conflicts of conscience: Rahel Varnhagen's search for Jewish identity and its future implications.
ED MOFFATT (Spanish Studies, University of Lancaster, England): A modern myth of masculinity: Serial behaviour and the sense of smell in Rosa Montero's 'Te trataré como a una reina'.
HELEN MOORE: Southey, Scott and Amadis de Gaula.
CLAIRE MORGAN (Christ Church, Oxford, England): Sisyphus revisited: Camus, Sartre and the Swinging Sixties.
VAYU NAIDU (Brumhalata Intercultural Storytelling Company, Birmingham, England): The floating vessel: Tales, transpositions and their tellers.
PARVATI NAIR (Spanish Studies, London Guildhall University, England): Constellations from the past: Fiction as history in the narratives of Julio Llamazares.
CLAUDIA NOCENTINI (Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh, Scotland): Uses of classical myth and exotic tales in Italo Calvino.
AMIRA NOWAIRA (Department of English, Alexandria University, Egypt): History and myth in Louis Awad's novel The Phoenix or the History of Hassan Mouftah.
MAIKE OERGEL (Department of German, University of Nottingham, England): The end of everything and the beginning of something: Nineteenth-century visions of the apocalpyse in Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Wagner's Ring cycle.
LENE ØSTERMARK-JOHANSEN (Department of English, University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Medusan mesmerism: Swinburne's serpentine delights and the old masters at Florence.
THALIA PAPADOPOULOU (Newnham College, Cambridge, England): Exploring limits in Euripides' Heracles and in Seneca's Hercules Furens.
DIMITRA PAPAZOGLOU (The British Council, Athens, Greece): Greek myths in the early short stories of E.M. Forster.
ANDREW PARKIN (Department of English, Chinese University, Hong Kong): Myth, gesture and the Yeatsian drama of unmasking.
GEORGINA PAUL (Department of German Studies, University of Warwick, England): Reading Anne Duden reading St George and the Dragon.
GRAZIA PIFFANELLI (School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, England): Marina Warner: On the tracks of the Queen of Sheba.
BEATA POLANOWSKA (School of European and International Studies, University of Derby, England): An ironic dialogue with Romantic myths in the work of the Polish writer S. I. Witkiewicz.
SUSAN POZNAR (Department of English, Arkansas Technical University, USA): Alias who? Myth-making and the uncanny in the hypnotic dialogue.
MALCOLM QUAINTON (French Studies, University of Lancaster, England): Unusual births in the poetry of Pierre de Ronsard.
JAMES RAESIDE (Department of English, Keio University, Japan): Noma Hiroshi and Gide's acte gratuit.
PAULINE RAFFERTY (School of Information Studies, University of Central England in Birmingham): Mythologising/De-mythologising the Northern Irish Troubles: Postcolonial palimpsest.
ROBERT REID (Russian Studies, Keele University, England): "If Diogenes had lived in Russia...": Classical philosophers and Russian prison literature.
MARIELLE RISSE (Department of English, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates): Dragon-spotting: The motif of "here be dragons" in travel writing.
REBECCA ROSEWARNE (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, England): Myths of civilisation: Two passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Birth of Tragedy and the iconography of the Parthenon frieze.
ANIRA ROWANCHILD (Department of Literature, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England): "Making the darkness visible": Anne Lister's crypt-hand and the management of myth.
DAVID RUDD (Bolton Institute, Bolton, England): Is man a myth? C.S. Lewis, Shadowlands and self-destructive fantasy.
GRAHAM SAUNDERS (Department of Drama, University of Birmingham, England): "The elusive Mrs Lear": Howard Barker's Seven Lears.
PHILIP SCHWYZER (Department of English, University of California at Berkeley, USA): Four Virgils for the four nations: The politics and poetics of translation in the sixteenth century.
KAREN SEAGO (School of European and Language Studies, University of North London, England): Let Sleeping Beauties lie...? On the difficulties of re-visioning the tale.
SUSAN SELLERS: "The pleasure of the damned" (or: Why feminists love fairy tales).
THELMA SHINN RICHARD (Department of English, Arizona State University, USA): Myth, metaphor and the meronymic novel.
CYNTHIA SKENAZI (University of California Santa Barbara, USA): The consolation of the tomb: Lemaire de Belges' Temple d'Honneur et de Vertus.
ANDREW SPENCER (Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA): The nature of man and the universe in Byron's "Darkness".
ANDY STAFFORD (French Studies, University of Lancaster, England): Phenomenon or myth? Roland Barthes and the dialectics of criticism.
REBECCA ARIANNE STEPHENS (School of English, University of Exeter, England): Timebound bodies, timeless fears: Blood culture and the heretic, vampire and Jew.
ANNE STEVENS (Department of English, New York University, USA): Robin Hood in the heroic age of popular radicalism.
PAUL STREUFERT (Department of Classics, Purdue University, USA): The revolving Western: American guilt and the tragically Greek in Sam Shepherd's "Silent Tongue".
KIMBERLEY SUTHERLAND (Department of French, University of Wales, Swansea): The arresting eye/I: Marcel watches Oriane in À la recherche du temps perdu.
NINA TAYLOR (Oxford, England): Landscape legends in Polish literature. Towards a mythical Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Adam Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances.
MARGARET TOPPING (Lincoln College, Oxford, England): The gods' watch-chain: Deification and deflation in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
TIBOR TÓTH (Anglo-American Institute, Esterhazy Karoly Teacher Training College, Eger, Hungary): The myth of the "almighty author".
SHAFQUAT TOWHEED (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England): On not being able to forget: Théodule Ribot's L'Hérédité psychologique (1875) and the haunting of George Gissing.
LITSA TRAYIANNOUDI (School of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece): Percy Bysshe Shelley's Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude and Wallace Stevens' The Comedia as the Letter C: The quest as a "mythology of self".
EDUARDO VARELA BRAVO (Department of English, French and German, University of Vigo, Spain): "Folie à deux" as a ritual in Peter Carey's Bliss (1981).
FABIO VERICAT (Department of English, University of Glasgow, Scotland): Mythical originality: The phenomenological historicism of T.S. Eliot.
ELIZABETH VINESTOCK (French Studies, University of Lancaster, England): Myth and environmentalism in a Renaissance poem: Jean Antoine de Baïf's "La Bièvre".
TRACEY L. WALTERS (Howard University, Washington DC, USA): (Re)presenting Greek myth: Feminist revisions.
PHILIP WARD (Wolfson College, Cambridge, England): Myths of life and death in fin-de-siècle Vienna: The case of Hofmannsthal's Alkestis.
JEAN WEBB (English Studies, Worcester College, England): The serpent grows older: The myth of Eden in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English children's literature.
TIM WEISS (Department of English, Chinese University, Hong Kong): Rushdie's Xanadu: Fairy tale, myth and allegory in The Moor's Last Sigh.
GABRIEL WEISZ (University of Mexico): Mythologies of the flesh.
MARTIN WINDISCH (Institut für Anglistik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany): "And what unknowen nation there empeopled were": Apocalyptic vision and the millennium in Virgil and Spenser.
EDMUND WRIGHT (Cambridge, England): Epistemology, mythos and logos.
PAUL WRIGHT (Department of English, Trinity College, Carmarthen, Wales): Claiming the Orphean lute: Partial song and partial myth in Keats's Endymion.
CAROL L. YANG (Department of English, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan): "What the thunder said": An unfinalizing dialogue of the Waste Land.
WEI-YUN YANG (Department of English, Providence University, Taichung Hsien, Taiwan): The making of humanity: Doris Lessing's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8.

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	LEGENDA Reading and Writing Myth UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER 15-18 JULY 1998 PROGRAMME Plenary Speakers PIERO BOITANI (University of Rome-La Sapienza): Ulysses towards 2001. ALAN GARNER (Novelist and Broadcaster): The scoundrel tail (language and myth). GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI (University of Sussex): A tale of a heel and a hip. ELINOR SHAFFER (University of London): Myths of Community: The Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998. MARINA WARNER (Novelist and Essayist): Zoomorphies: The perils and seductions of Circe's enchantments. Panel Speakers SANDRA ADAMS (Department of English, University of Macau, Macau): The Lord of the Flies as myth. NATALIA AGAPIOU (Department of French, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece): Endymion: The inexhaustible resources of a Greek myth. GILLIAN ANIA (Department of Italian, University of Hull, England): Music as myth in Paola Capriolo. HUGO AZERAD (Selwyn College, Cambridge, England): Epiphany as the aura of myth in Proust and Faulkner. FRANCES BABBAGE (School of Cultural Studies, Nene College, Northampton, England): Fatal attraction: The rusalka reborn in Zinaida Gippius' Sacred Blood. ISIL BAS (Department of English, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey): Shahmaran: The Great Goddess survives. JOHN S. BATTS (Department of English, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada): Writes of passage: Crossing Neptune's line in nineteenth-century diaries. SIAM BHAYRO (Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London, England): Cosmic conflict in the Apocalpyse. IULIAN BOLDEA AND TATIANA IATCU (Petru Maior University, Mures, Romania): Parallel myths in Romanian and English folklore. SHERRYL H. BOOTH (Department of English, Santa Clara University, California, USA): Breaking and making myth: Adult women and new myths for a postmodern age in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride. CHANTAL BOURGAULT: Upright citizens on all fours: Grotesque excesses in nineteenth-century representations of the werewolf. ANTONELLA BRAIDA (St Catherine's College, Oxford, England): William Blake and Dante: The revolutionary implications of the illustrations to the Divine Comedy. JUTTA BRAIDT (Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley, USA): Romantic parabasis: Wordsworth, Friedrich Schlegel and the disfiguration of reading "what is to be read". SARAH BROOM (Brasenose College, Oxford, England): Myth and fairy legend in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's poetry. DAVID BROTTMAN (Cultural Studies, University of East London, England): The gaze of "the Greys": hegemonic vision and the return of the unsightly to contemporary culture - reflections in/on an evil eye. PENNY BROWN (Department of French, University of Manchester, England): Transformations: Reason and imagination in the nineteenth-century fairy tale. JOHANNA BUISSON (Trinity College, Cambridge, England): The myth of Babel and the dream of a "lyric Esperanto" in European poetry from Apollinaire to Henri Michaux, Paul Celan and Ted Hughes. LEON BURNETT (Department of Literature, University of Essex, England): Experience and explosion: Revisiting Madame Sosostris. FRANCES CAUSER: The shamaness, the whore and the beautiful fool: The masks worn by Japanese women in the essays and fiction of Fumiko Enchi. NICOLA CHATTEN (ENCAP, Cardiff University of Wales): The humanization of a myth: Ovid's Tereus in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. ROBERT CHURCHILL (Department of English, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA): "And the hero was made flesh and dwelt amongst them": Tennyson as archetypal hero. MERRILL COLE (Department of French, University of Washington, Seattle, USA): Mythological desire and the male lesbian: Reading Baudelaire's "Femmes damnées". MARY-ANN CONSTANTINE (Department of Welsh, University of Wales Aberystwyth): "Owls and flowers": The faces of Blodeuwedd. LAURENCE COUPE (Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, England): Sacred time, sacred place: Mythology in the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Gary Snyder. GERALDINE COUSIN (School of Theatre Studies, University of Warwick, England): The red-bellied queen: Foursight Theatre Company's exploration of the legendary Warrior Queen. MIGUEL CRESPO (Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, England): The genealogical character of modernist re-enactments of ancient writers. PETER CRISP (Department of English, Chinese University, Hong Kong): The pragmatics of allegory: From myth and prophesy to apocalypse and after. PATRICK CROWLEY (Department of French, Royal Holloway College, London, England): Chaotic forms: The nebulous texts of Pierre Michon and Eugène Savitzkaya. JOAN CURBET (Departament de Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Catalunia): Labyrinths of language: Babel revisited in the works of Dickens, Kafka and Borges. SIRA DAMBE (Department of Classics, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa): Viridis senectus: The paradoxical myth of vigorous old age from Theocritus' Idyll I to Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. SARAH DEL COLLO (London, England): "The cruelty of savage manners": Yeats, Deirdre and her Victorian admirers. M.-JOSEPHINE DIAMOND (Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, USA): Benedikte Naubert's "The Cloak": A spider in the web of Grim(m) romantic folk tales. BEATRIZ DOMINGUEZ GARCIA (Centre for Women's Studies/Department of English, University of Huelva, Spain): The fairies' heritage: Sheri S. Tepper's Beauty and the fairytale lineage. LEENA EILITTA (Insitute of Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki, Finland): Kafka's Darwinist re-reading of metamorphosis. LUDMILLA EVITMOVA (University of Shoumen, Bulgaria): "Passionnément dans l'avenir se mire le passé": Past and present dreams/anxieties haunting the artists and poets of Symbolism. LUDMILLA EVITMOVA and GLYN HAMBROOK (Universities of Shoumen, Bulgaria, and Wolverhampton, England): "Synecdoques sinistres et métonymies mortelles": A revisitation of the image of the femme fatale in European Symbolist literature. CHARLES FORSDICK (Department of French, University of Glasgow, Scotland): Refiguring revolution: The myth of Toussaint L'Ouverture in C.L.R. James and Edouard Glissant. CHRISTIEN FRANKEN (Department of English Literature, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands): The Melusine mythology in A. S. Byatt's Possession. MARIA JOSÉ GAMEZ FUENTES (Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham, England): Virginia Woolf, re-creating the myth: A portrait of the artist as a woman in the fiction of Ana María Navales. CARLA GNAPPI: The Miltonic legacy of Kubla Khan. ROLF J. GOEBEL (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA): Benjamin in Tokyo: Urban modernity and the myth of bureaucratic power. MICHELLE LEIGH GOMPF (Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA): Malory's Arthur and Blake's Albion: Two visions of the same myth. CHRISTOPHER GRABOWSKI (Department of English, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland): J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth: from a mythology for England to a recovery of the real Earth. BRIAN GRAHAM (University of Glasgow, Scotland): Mythology today. HÉLÈNE GREVEN (Maison des Langues et des Cultures, Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France): Fall and rebirth: Myth as structure and imagery in twentieth-century utopian/dystopian fiction. NICK GROOM (Department of English, University of Exeter, England): Demonic Chatterton. GREG HAINGE (Department of French, University of Nottingham, England): The art of automythography: The role of myth in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Germanic Trilogy. GLYN HAMBROOK (University of Wolverhampton, England): Reclaiming tradition: Juan Ramón Jiménez's literary influences. KATE HAMMER (Department of Drama, Roehampton Institute, London, England): Performing myth: A question of agenda. SEUNG EOK HAN (Department of Korean Literature, Keimyung University, South Korea): Light in Mallarmé's mythology and the Zen vision of the void. SUSAN HARROW (Department of French, University of Wales, Swansea): Through Zola's magnifying glass: Subverting Second Empire culture in La Curée. JESSAMY HARVEY (Department of Spanish, Birkbeck College, London, England): Displacing the wolf: Girlhood, sex and violence in Carmen Martín Gaite's re-telling of "Little Red Riding Hood". ELIZABETH HEDGECOCK (University of Liverpool, England): Hopeful monsters: The Woman in White and Great Expectations. ROBERT HEMMINGS (Department of English, University of Toronto, Canada): The topography of palimpsest: Wordsworth's legacy in Blunden and Sassoon. ALEXANDRA HENDRIOK (Department of Literature, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England): Frank McCourt and the circular quest for deliverance: America revisited. MALTE HERWIG (The Queen's College, Oxford, England): Beautiful biology: The scientific transformation of myths in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. DANIELLE HIPKINS (Department of Italian, University of Warwick, England): The syren song of the text: Male myth readings in contemporary Italian women's writings. CAROLINE HOFFMANN (Department of English, University of Le Havre, France): A journey through narrative valleys: The writing and rewriting of heroic myth in Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. ANNA HOLLAND (St Hugh's College, Oxford, England): "Tying down Proteus": Metamorphosis and identity in Renaissance lyric poetry. YUAN HONGGENG: Sherlock Holmes in China. SUSAN HOPKIRK (Department of Comparative Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada): Reading (in) the medieval romance: The construction of a didactic mythology. AMBER JACOBS (Department of English, University of Sussex, England): The desires of Orestes: Matricide - severance - deliverance. JANCY JAMES (School of Theatre Studies, University of Warwick, England): Decolonising the canon: Subversive retellings of epics and legends in contemporary Indian writing. SIV JANSSON (London, England): Heroic myth in writing for children. DAVID JONES (Darwin College, Cambridge, England): Aesthetic myth: Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett - two German letters, two parallel aesthetics. DESPINA KAKOUDAKIS (Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley, USA): Rooms of lonely facts: The consumed self, the archive and the apocalypse in Don DeLillo's Libra and Mao II. MATTHEW KIBBLE (School of English and Drama, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, England): Fantasies of origin: H. D. (Hilda Dolittle) and matriarchy. ANITA KLUJBER (Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, England): Recontextualisation of the mythological quest in Edgar Allan Poe's The Man of the Crowd. JOANNE KNOWLES (Department of English, University of Liverpool, England): The "spell of supreme romance": Henry James and the myths of Old World culture. LUDMILA KOSTOVA (University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria): Journeying into "darkest Europe": Encounters with primitive others in nineteenth-century British and French travel writing and narrative fiction. CYNTHIA KRAMAN (College of New Rochelle, New York State, USA): Decoding the Knight's Tale: Chaucer's dark myth of creation. KAREN LEEDER (New College, Oxford, England): Angels: Necessary fictions for the millennium. KATHERINE LEVIN (Interdisciplinary Program in Literary Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA): The power of perception: Monstrosity and invisibility in folklore fiction. HENRI LIEUTAUD (Department of English, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France): Fairy-tale pattern and comedy in The Merchant of Venice. CHARLIE LOUTH (Department of German, University of Bristol, England): Figures of transition: Centaurs in Hölderlin and Goethe. ANN LAWSON LUCAS (Department of Italian, University of Hull, England): The purposes of pirates: Historical and mythical, tragical and comical, ancient and (post)modern. NICOLETTA MCGOWAN (Department of Languages, Manchester Metropolitan University, England): In search of one's self: A reading of two short stories by Katherine Mansfield and Elsa Morante. DONALD MACKENZIE (Department of Classics, University of Glasgow, Scotland): History as myth: Virgil and others. CHANTELLE MACPHEE (Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, Scotland): William Blake's The French Revolution: A Shakespearean tragi-historical composition. CATHERINE MARGERRISON (French Studies, University of Lancaster, England): Cannibalism and matriarchy: Mythical women in the later fiction of Albert Camus. SIMON MEALOR (Hertford College, Oxford, England): "And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth": Revelation 21 and myths of homecoming by Huguenot refugees in Elizabethan England. KITTY MILLET (Department of Comparative Literature and Classics, California State University, Long Beach, USA): Marginal romantics and conflicts of conscience: Rahel Varnhagen's search for Jewish identity and its future implications. ED MOFFATT (Spanish Studies, University of Lancaster, England): A modern myth of masculinity: Serial behaviour and the sense of smell in Rosa Montero's 'Te trataré como a una reina'. HELEN MOORE: Southey, Scott and Amadis de Gaula. CLAIRE MORGAN (Christ Church, Oxford, England): Sisyphus revisited: Camus, Sartre and the Swinging Sixties. VAYU NAIDU (Brumhalata Intercultural Storytelling Company, Birmingham, England): The floating vessel: Tales, transpositions and their tellers. PARVATI NAIR (Spanish Studies, London Guildhall University, England): Constellations from the past: Fiction as history in the narratives of Julio Llamazares. CLAUDIA NOCENTINI (Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh, Scotland): Uses of classical myth and exotic tales in Italo Calvino. AMIRA NOWAIRA (Department of English, Alexandria University, Egypt): History and myth in Louis Awad's novel The Phoenix or the History of Hassan Mouftah. MAIKE OERGEL (Department of German, University of Nottingham, England): The end of everything and the beginning of something: Nineteenth-century visions of the apocalpyse in Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Wagner's Ring cycle. LENE ØSTERMARK-JOHANSEN (Department of English, University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Medusan mesmerism: Swinburne's serpentine delights and the old masters at Florence. THALIA PAPADOPOULOU (Newnham College, Cambridge, England): Exploring limits in Euripides' Heracles and in Seneca's Hercules Furens. DIMITRA PAPAZOGLOU (The British Council, Athens, Greece): Greek myths in the early short stories of E.M. Forster. ANDREW PARKIN (Department of English, Chinese University, Hong Kong): Myth, gesture and the Yeatsian drama of unmasking. GEORGINA PAUL (Department of German Studies, University of Warwick, England): Reading Anne Duden reading St George and the Dragon. GRAZIA PIFFANELLI (School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, England): Marina Warner: On the tracks of the Queen of Sheba. BEATA POLANOWSKA (School of European and International Studies, University of Derby, England): An ironic dialogue with Romantic myths in the work of the Polish writer S. I. Witkiewicz. SUSAN POZNAR (Department of English, Arkansas Technical University, USA): Alias who? Myth-making and the uncanny in the hypnotic dialogue. MALCOLM QUAINTON (French Studies, University of Lancaster, England): Unusual births in the poetry of Pierre de Ronsard. JAMES RAESIDE (Department of English, Keio University, Japan): Noma Hiroshi and Gide's acte gratuit. PAULINE RAFFERTY (School of Information Studies, University of Central England in Birmingham): Mythologising/De-mythologising the Northern Irish Troubles: Postcolonial palimpsest. ROBERT REID (Russian Studies, Keele University, England): "If Diogenes had lived in Russia...": Classical philosophers and Russian prison literature. MARIELLE RISSE (Department of English, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates): Dragon-spotting: The motif of "here be dragons" in travel writing. REBECCA ROSEWARNE (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, England): Myths of civilisation: Two passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Birth of Tragedy and the iconography of the Parthenon frieze. ANIRA ROWANCHILD (Department of Literature, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England): "Making the darkness visible": Anne Lister's crypt-hand and the management of myth. DAVID RUDD (Bolton Institute, Bolton, England): Is man a myth? C.S. Lewis, Shadowlands and self-destructive fantasy. GRAHAM SAUNDERS (Department of Drama, University of Birmingham, England): "The elusive Mrs Lear": Howard Barker's Seven Lears. PHILIP SCHWYZER (Department of English, University of California at Berkeley, USA): Four Virgils for the four nations: The politics and poetics of translation in the sixteenth century. KAREN SEAGO (School of European and Language Studies, University of North London, England): Let Sleeping Beauties lie...? On the difficulties of re-visioning the tale. SUSAN SELLERS: "The pleasure of the damned" (or: Why feminists love fairy tales). THELMA SHINN RICHARD (Department of English, Arizona State University, USA): Myth, metaphor and the meronymic novel. CYNTHIA SKENAZI (University of California Santa Barbara, USA): The consolation of the tomb: Lemaire de Belges' Temple d'Honneur et de Vertus. ANDREW SPENCER (Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA): The nature of man and the universe in Byron's "Darkness". ANDY STAFFORD (French Studies, University of Lancaster, England): Phenomenon or myth? Roland Barthes and the dialectics of criticism. REBECCA ARIANNE STEPHENS (School of English, University of Exeter, England): Timebound bodies, timeless fears: Blood culture and the heretic, vampire and Jew. ANNE STEVENS (Department of English, New York University, USA): Robin Hood in the heroic age of popular radicalism. PAUL STREUFERT (Department of Classics, Purdue University, USA): The revolving Western: American guilt and the tragically Greek in Sam Shepherd's "Silent Tongue". KIMBERLEY SUTHERLAND (Department of French, University of Wales, Swansea): The arresting eye/I: Marcel watches Oriane in À la recherche du temps perdu. NINA TAYLOR (Oxford, England): Landscape legends in Polish literature. Towards a mythical Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Adam Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances. MARGARET TOPPING (Lincoln College, Oxford, England): The gods' watch-chain: Deification and deflation in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. TIBOR TÓTH (Anglo-American Institute, Esterhazy Karoly Teacher Training College, Eger, Hungary): The myth of the "almighty author". SHAFQUAT TOWHEED (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England): On not being able to forget: Théodule Ribot's L'Hérédité psychologique (1875) and the haunting of George Gissing. LITSA TRAYIANNOUDI (School of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece): Percy Bysshe Shelley's Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude and Wallace Stevens' The Comedia as the Letter C: The quest as a "mythology of self". EDUARDO VARELA BRAVO (Department of English, French and German, University of Vigo, Spain): "Folie à deux" as a ritual in Peter Carey's Bliss (1981). FABIO VERICAT (Department of English, University of Glasgow, Scotland): Mythical originality: The phenomenological historicism of T.S. Eliot. ELIZABETH VINESTOCK (French Studies, University of Lancaster, England): Myth and environmentalism in a Renaissance poem: Jean Antoine de Baïf's "La Bièvre". TRACEY L. WALTERS (Howard University, Washington DC, USA): (Re)presenting Greek myth: Feminist revisions. PHILIP WARD (Wolfson College, Cambridge, England): Myths of life and death in fin-de-siècle Vienna: The case of Hofmannsthal's Alkestis. JEAN WEBB (English Studies, Worcester College, England): The serpent grows older: The myth of Eden in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English children's literature. TIM WEISS (Department of English, Chinese University, Hong Kong): Rushdie's Xanadu: Fairy tale, myth and allegory in The Moor's Last Sigh. GABRIEL WEISZ (University of Mexico): Mythologies of the flesh. MARTIN WINDISCH (Institut für Anglistik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany): "And what unknowen nation there empeopled were": Apocalyptic vision and the millennium in Virgil and Spenser. EDMUND WRIGHT (Cambridge, England): Epistemology, mythos and logos. PAUL WRIGHT (Department of English, Trinity College, Carmarthen, Wales): Claiming the Orphean lute: Partial song and partial myth in Keats's Endymion. CAROL L. YANG (Department of English, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan): "What the thunder said": An unfinalizing dialogue of the Waste Land. WEI-YUN YANG (Department of English, Providence University, Taichung Hsien, Taiwan): The making of humanity: Doris Lessing's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Back to the top of the page Return to the [ Legenda home page ] [ BCLA home page ]