LCMND's 34th Conference: 1991 Proceedings vol. 31
LCMND: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota


LCMND Proceedings

pdf 2011: volume 31 / 1991

Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle's Thirty-Fourth Conference
October 25-26, 1991
Fargo, N.D.

Hosted by the North Dakota State University



45 p.
Cover: yellow

Published for the Linguistic Circle
by Century Creations/Wenco Printing Services, Grand Forks, ND58201, U.S.A.

1991 LCMND Officers:
President: Muriel Brown, NDSU; Past-President: J. Iain McDougall, UW;
Vice-President: Rory B. Egan, UM; Secretary-Treasurer: Neil Besner, UW

Editor of LCMND Proceedings: Theodore Messenger, UND.
Honorary Presidents: Louis Palanca, UND; J. B. Rudnyckyj, UM.

Opposite title page: Foreword, reporting details of the 1991 Conference and Business Meeting.
Opening remarks:
1991 LCMND President Muriel Brown
& NDSU Robert Littlefield, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, Wesleyan University, read poetry during the Banquet.
Reception at the Brown's residence in Moorhead, Minn.

37 papers were presented by affiliates of four Canadian and ten American Institutions.

The Editor stated
that the LCMND Proceedings were sent to 12 Canadian and 6 American Academic Libraries,
including Yale and Stanford.
that an exchange is in effect with The Bulletin of the
International Association for Semiotic Studies (Vienna) & with Metalogicon (Rome).

Professor Louis Palanca, UND, was unanimously elected Honorary President.

At end: Call for Papers for the 6th Annual Midlands Conference on Language & Literature, Creighton University, Omaha, April 1993.
Special Sessions are planned for the Irish poet, Patrick Kavanagh.
Submissions to Kathleen Collins, Creighton, by Feb. 15, 1992.



The 1991 LCMND Program [37 papers]:

  1. Dadaism, Zen Buddhism, and Tristan Tzara / Juan Bakh, Minot State University.
  2. Feminine and masculine voices in American expressionistic drama: Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, and Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine / Connie Breding, Minot SU.
  3. Ivor Gurney and Edward Thomas: a distinction / Mark W. Brown, Jamestown College, ND.
  4. World literatures: a historical perspective / Emerson Case, UND.
  5. Desmond Egan: an important Irish poetic voice / Ben L. Collins, UND.
  6. "Seeing double": Desmond Egan's contrapuntal technique / Kathleen Rettig Collins, Creighton University, Nebraska.
  7. Intersubjectivity: Reader and writer conversing via text / James E. Coomber, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.
  8. The underlying issues behind the PC (Politically Correct) mouvement / Helen Hoehn Correll, NDSU.
  9. Wrestling with the under toad in John Irving's The World According to Garp / William Cosgrove, NDSU.
  10. Speech behaviour in Othello: the considerations of Roderigo and Iago / Margaret Dahlberg, UND.
  11. Language obsolescence: the case of French in the Midwest / Signe Denbow, Western Michigan University.
  12. Felix Paul Greve's 'Fanny Essler' poems: His or Hers? / Gaby Divay, UM.
  13. Deviant means and legitimite ends in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country / David A. Godfrey, Jamestown Coll.
  14. Gangsters in the new Eden: criminality in Agustin Yanez, Mario Puzo and Francis Coppola, and Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal / Kenneth E. Hall, UND.
  15. Social isolation as a barrier to English proficiency: a sociolinguistic survey of international students at the UND / John H. Hudson, UND.
  16. Challenges to character in modernist and postmodernist fiction / Don Jewison, UW.
  17. Indochine, Mon Amour: Marguerite Duras's The Lover / Mary Greenwood Johnson Moorhead State University, Minn.
  18. Postmodern fiction: the cult and technique of skepticism / Carter Kaplan, UND.
  19. An evaluation of Faith: Robert Browning's Christmas Eve / George S. Larson, Concordia College, Minn.
  20. M. R. James and the terror of revocation / William Laskowski, Jamestown Coll.
  21. Of love and power: evidences of linguistic divide / Elliott Levine, UW.
  22. The Moment: Sartre, Lacan, Derrida / Alan MacDonnell, UM.
  23. Janice Kulyk Keefer's Constellations: a fictional reading of the endemic topos of the Maritimes / Marylea MacDonald, UM.
  24. The meaning of discovery in [Louise Erdrich/Michael Dorris'] Crown of Columbus, 1991 / Tom Matchie, NDSU.
  25. An electronic analysis of Charlotte Gilman Perkins's short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' / Michael E. Moriarty, Valley City State University, ND.
  26. Transvestism and anality as comic restorative in Circe's Harlequinade [J. Joyce, Ulysses, & Dublin pantomime theater] / Sandra M. Pearce, Moorhead SU.
  27. Fun-house/Prison-house/Fame's house: reconstructing Chaucer's language game / Phyllis Portnoy, UM.
  28. Telling tales to children: Desire in the fantasies of Lewis Carroll and Jean Ingelow / Mavis Reimer, UW.
  29. The influence of C. H. Douglas on Pound's Eleven New Cantos / Lorne A. Reznowski, UM.
  30. Aristophanes' Frogs meet M. C. Hammer: Metrical sparring in Greek comedy and Rap music / Clarence Rhymer, UM.
  31. Plato's critique of the Aristotelian concept of Catharsis / Vincent L. Schonberger, Lakehead University, Thunderbay, Ont.
  32. Pre-20th century scholarship on language and grammar / Ines Senna Shaw, NDSU.
  33. Entaglement of Art and Sensuality in Mallarme's 'L'Apres-midi d'un Faune' / Harold J. Smith, Minot SU.
  34. The VSP: a study of the very-short-poem or, The limits of minimalism / Tony Steele, UM.
  35. Late mss revisions to M. Lowry's Under the Vulcano / Donn E. Taylor,Jamestown College.
  36. The Tempest: a play of loose ends / Andrew Trump, NDSU.
  37. Using autobiographical material to interpret literary text (Henry James) / Greg W. Zacharias, Creighton