LCMND's 36th Conference: 1993 Proceedings vol. 33
LCMND: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota


LCMND Proceedings
pdf 2011: volume 33 / 1993

Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle's Thirty-Sixth Conference
October 15th & 16th, 1993
Grand Forks, N.D.

Hosted by the University of North Dakota
at the Town House Motor Inn



38 p.
Cover: blue
Published for the LCMND
by Century Creations Printing, Grand Forks

1993 LCMND Officers:
President: Kenneth E. Hall, UND; Past-President: Rory B. Egan, UM;
Vice-President: Neil Besner, UW; Secretary-Treasurer: Gaby Divay, UM

Editor of LCMND Proceedings: Theodore Messenger, UND
Honorary Presidents:
Ben L. Collins, UND; Louis Palanca, UND; J. B.Rudnyckyj, UM; Walter Swayze, UW.

A Reading by the Irish Poet Desmond Egan
followed the Annual Banquet
on Friday, Oct. 15 The 1993



The 1993 LCMND Program [41 papers]:

  1. L'image du pain dans 'La Comedie Humaine' de Balzac / Marie-Christine Aubin, College Universitaire de St. Boniface, Man.
  2. Grammar teaching and the acquisition of French as a second language / Hubert Balcaen, UM.
  3. Spinning the textual web / Donavin Benness, UND.
  4. Chaucer's prioress revisited / Muriel Brown, NDSU.
  5. Keat's 'Ode on Indolence', a puzzle of form and content / Robert W. Brown, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.
  6. La preciosite de l'amant/e chez Racine / Rebecca Colborne, UM.
  7. Goethe & Schiller's 'Xenien' I: a new translation [full German & Engl. text of 7 epigrams modelled on Martial's xenions] / Ben L. Collins & Ursula Hovet, UND.
  8. The pedestal image and the female suppliant: Edna O'Brien's portrayal of women in 'Lantern Slides' / Kathleen Rettig Collins, Creighton University, Nebr.
  9. Making poetry from pop culture history: Aunt Jemima and the Quaker Oats man in poems by Robert Hayden and Rita Dove / Christine Delea, UND.
  10. [African-American] Conjure Tales and their relation to jokes / Gayatri Devi, UND.
  11. Berceo's villains: characterization in the 'Milagros de Nuestra Senora' / Gene W. DuBois, UND.
  12. La jeune fille chez Simone de Beauvoir: victime ou complice? / Paula Fernandes, UM.
  13. Le systeme judiciaire raille dans le theatre de Moliere / Chris Foley, UM.
  14. The 18th century "Nature" of Byron's vision: his historical tragedies, and Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' / Eric Furuseth, Minot SU.
  15. In the way or on the way: words and world in the poetry of Philippe Jaccottet / Alex L. Gordon, UM.
  16. [The Cuban writer Guillermo] Cabrera Infante and St. Augustine / Kenneth E. Hall, UND.
  17. Uruguayan women's autobiographical writings since the dictatorship / Elizabeth Hampsten, UND.
  18. The Image of French Canadians in postcolonial Canadian literature / Rosmarin Heidenreich, St. Boniface, Man.
  19. The missing multicultural link-unity / Jeff Jentz, UMD.
  20. Melville, Burton, and the Menippean list: the anatomy of a generically-controlled syntax / Carter Kaplan, UND.
  21. The barren couple on the American stage / Kathy Coudle King, UND.
  22. Community and conscience in Fontane's 'Stine' / Edith H. Krause & Steve Hicks, Queen's College, CUNY.
  23. "Word" as a changing metaphor in the Christian community / Julie Ann Krueger, UND.
  24. Can Orpheus be slain? [on the Budapest Rilke Symposium, Sept. 1993, the poet's views on Thomas Mann's 'Buddenbrooks', and his 'Sonnets to Orpheus'] / Esther H. Leser, UND.
  25. Two women of the Siouz, 150 years apart: Ella Deloria's 'Waterlily' (1830), and Mary Crow Dog's 'Lakota Woman' (1980) / Tom Matchie, NDSU.
  26. The lean and hungry look: the refutation of a tyrannicide [in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'] / Iain McDougall, UW.
  27. Switching mother tongue at Turtle Mountain / Mary J. Monette, UND.
  28. Literary images of AIDS as the Dance of Death / Michael E. Moriarty, Valley City SU.
  29. The "ghostly consciousness" of Louise Gluck: feminism in 'The Wild Iris' / Catherine Pavlish, UND.
  30. Of mice roads, Kimchi ghosts, and other tales: teaching composition to E.S.L. students at the university / Marilyn Plumlee, UND.
  31. The urban Indian body: border writing in Lynda Shorten's 'Without Reserve' / Doug Reimer, UM.
  32. One of the critters is missing: the disappearance of Nancy Durrell from 'My Family and Other Animals' [by Gerald Durrell] / Marielle Risse, UND.
  33. Lost dogs and the vanished man: the mythic dimensions of Richard Adams's 'The Plague Dogs' / Edward A. Schmoll, Concordia College, Minn.
  34. "I should have studied linguistics, not art": the semiotics of awareness in Margaret Atwood's 'Surfacing' (1972) / M. G. Shojania, UM.
  35. Philosophy, poetry, Heidegger, and Keats's Odes / George Slanger, Minot SU.
  36. A song for Quebec and Quebec as a song: the theme of "le pays" in the 1960s / Harold J. Smith, Minot SU.
  37. Her rememberance of awakened birds: bird symbols in English poetry / Tony Steele, UM.
  38. The poem in praise of itself / Burt Thorp, UND.
  39. Ascent in Tamburlaine: inevitable or calculated? / Andrew Trump, NDSU.
  40. L'image du mariage dans les romans de Simone de Beauvoir / Michelina Violi, UM.
  41. Trifles [drama, 1916] by Susan Glaspell / Patricia Wilbur, UND