LCMND's 33rd Conference: 1990 Proceedings vol. 30
LCMND: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota

LCMND Proceedings
pdf 2011: volume 30 / 1990


Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle's Thirty-Third Conference
October 26th & 27th, 1990
Winnipeg, Man.

Hosted by the University of Winnipeg
at the Charter House Hotel



49 p.
Cover: powder-pink
"Published for the Institutional Members of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota
The University of Manitoba, The University of North Dakota, The University of Winnipeg,
North Dakota State University, Minot State University
Printed by Century Creations Printing Services, Grand Forks, ND58201, U.S.A."

1990 LCMND Officers:
President: J. Iain McDougall, UW; Vice-President: Muriel Brown, NDSU
Past-President: Theodore (Tim) Messenger, UND; Secretary-Treasurer: Rory B. Egan, UM

Editor of LCMND Proceedings: Theodore Messenger, UND
Honorary President: J. B. Rudnyckyj, UM

Opposite table of contents:
"...The members were welcomed by Dr. John Hofley, Associate Dean of Arts and Science,
University of Winnipeg, & by the Circle's President [Iain McDougall] ..."

The Annual Banquet was held in the Solarium of the Sheraton Hotel
1991 LCMND President Iain McDougall gave "a fascinating account
of his work in Roman-British archaeology, entitled 'Life on a dreary Frontier'.
Far from dreary was the ensuing reception at the McDougall's abode."

67 individuals, including five students, had registered for the conference.

At the end:
"Call for Papers", for the 5th Annual Midlands Conference on Language & Literature,
Creighton University, Omaha, April, 1992
Submissions to Kathleen or Ben Collins, Blair, Nebraska



The 1990 LCMND Program [41 papers]:

  1. From homeric cliche to terminal romantic reconstruction: some remarks on poetic style and historical determinism / Arthur Adamson, UM.
  2. Error persistence in French oral production by immersion students / Eric Annandale & Hubert Balcaen, UM.
  3. The battle of the sexes: concepts of divorce in Milton's Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, and Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letters / Glenna Bell, Jamestown College, ND.
  4. Edith Wharton, Victorian, and Louis Bromfield, Jeffersonian / Daniel Bratton, Erindale College, University of Toronto.
  5. Creating value: Women's work in Willa Cather's My Antonia / Muriel Brown, NDSU.
  6. The politics of moonlighting: rhetoric and politics in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew & Midsummer Night's Dream / Edward Chute, California University of Pennsylvania.
  7. A Los Angeles Yankee in King Arthur's Court: Raymond Chandler and the matter of Britain, or, the daze of Sir Philip / Ben L. Collins.
  8. The Taming of the Shrew on the modern stage / Kathleen Rettig Collins, Creighton University, Nebraska.
  9. The Mycenean topography of Pylos: A-Pu2 and the site of Iklaina / Michael B. Cosmopoulos, UM.
  10. A triptych of 7 poems (1904/5) found in May 1990 under FPG (Greve/Grove)'s & Else von Freytag-Loringhoven's joint pseudonym "Fanny Essler" / Gaby Divay, UM (read by Prof. R. Egan).
  11. Sculpture as theme in the 'Rime' [poetry] of Michelangelo Buonarroti / Gene DuBois, UND.
  12. Teaching ourselves to listen: Nature as subject in Mary Oliver's Dream Work / Laure French, Moorhead State University.
  13. The intricate knot of [Melville's] Benito Cereno / Carla Howe Godfrey, Jamestown College.
  14. The gross tangible image: Lily Bart [in E. Wharton's The House of Mirth, 1905] and the looking glass Self / David A. Godfrey, Jamestown College.
  15. Sarah at Dante's house, or John Fowles's pre-Raphaelite woman / Margaret Goscilo, Moorhead.
  16. Zazie and the tigers / K. E. Hall, UND.
  17. Nature and ethos in Shakespeare's Coriolanus / Roberta K.E. Harvey, UND.
  18. Grammar and meaning in William Carlos William's [short story] 'The Use of Force' / Dorothy Holley, Jamestown.
  19. Playing with the beheading game: anticlosural strategies in Gawain and the Green Knight / Phyllis Johnson, UM.
  20. Originals and their antecedents [in Melville] / Carter Kaplan, UND.
  21. English in Thai: a closer look at journalistic discourse in Thai media / James Kapper, UND.
  22. The academic epidemic: deconstruction spreads to the (gasp!) classroom / Louise Kasper, UM.
  23. Dozing daily do they flee: the perceiver's soul as linguistic determinant / E. Levine, UW.
  24. The orifice triptych: images of women in the work of Rabelais / Marylea MacDonald, UM.
  25. Le dix-huit Brumaire de Louis Bonaparte et les romans de Hubert Aquin / Alan MacDonell, UM.
  26. Evidence of phanopoeia in the poetry of Wang Wei, an 8th century Tang dynasty poet / David M. Marshall, UND.
  27. Theme and structure in Louise Erdrich's Beet Queen / Thomas Matchie, NDSU.
  28. Shamanist trance poems of the Ghost Dance Sioux / Michael E. Moriarty, Valley City Stae University, ND.
  29. Beyond classical antiquity, to the homeland of dandys: a reading of Baudelaire's "J'aime le souvenir de ces epoques nues" [Les Fleurs du mal, V] / Joseph Nnadi, UW.
  30. Les titres generiques chez Samuel Beckett / Magessa O'Reilly, UM.
  31. The image of the statue: its place in Musset's thematics / Graham Padgett, UM.
  32. Classical literary artistry in the neo-classicism of U. Foscolo / Louis Palanca, UND.
  33. William Trevor's 'Ballroom of Romance': daughters mothering fathers & sons / Suzanne Morrow Paulson, Minot State University.
  34. Alice Walker's fiction: a portrayal of Black Movement toward freedom, justice, and equality / Barbara Ragan Minot SU.
  35. The fool for Christ as seen in Eastern & Western hagiography / Lorne A. Reznowski, UM.
  36. Distanciation narrative dans La Petite poule d'eau [de Gabrielle Roy] / Vincent L. Schonberger, Lakehead University, Ont.
  37. Half in love with intense obscurity: the appeal of deconstruction / George Slanger, Minot.
  38. Child abuse and its consequences in the stories of James Joyce / Tony Steele, UM.
  39. The Fairie Queene, Bk. III: Landscape, psychology, and minor characters / Donn E. Taylor / Jamestown.
  40. [William Wycherley's] The Country Wife's [characters] Harcourt and Alithea / Andrew Trump, NDSU.
  41. Metaphor and metonymy: the structural principle in Donne's Devotions (1624) / Clement H. Wyke, UW.