LCMND Proceedings
pdf 1996: volume 36 /1996

Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle's Thirty-Ninth Conference
Fr. & Sat., October 25th & 26th, 1996
Winnipeg, Man.

Hosted by the University of Manitoba
at the Historic Marlborough Hotel (Ramada)



22 p.
Cover: cream
Published for the LCMND
by Chandice Johnson, Academic Writing Center, NDSU

1996 LCMND Officers:
President: Gaby Divay, UM; Vice-President: Chandice Johnson, NDSU;
Past-President: Kenneth E.Hall, UND; Secretary-Treasurer: Karen Malcolm, UW

Editor of LCMND Proceedings: Chandice Johnson, UND
Honorary Presidents: Mary Ellen Caldwell, UND; Ben L. Collins, UND
Louis Palanca, UND; J. B. Rudnyckyj, UM;Walter Swayze, UW

Opening remarks
by 1996 LCMND President Gaby Divay
Eric Annandale
Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba.

Banquet
at the Ramada Marlborough, Friday Night, October 25, 1996:
Presidential Dinner Address
"A Bonanza Farm in the Dakotas:
FPG (Greve/Grove) in Amenia, near Fargo, in 1912"
[videotaped by UM Communication Services]



The 1996 LCMND Program [37 papers]:
NOTE: Due to the Great Red River Flood of 1997,
this volume of the Circle's Proceedings was not published until 1999,
& then in rather incomplete form:
only 11 abstracts of the 36 papers presented could be assembled.

Much of the information below stems from the 1996 LCMND Program
as printed on pp. 4-6
Papers with abstracts are marked with a triple asterisk [***]

***Sinclair Ross's 'As for Me and My House' in five decades of criticism / Chandice Johnson, Jr., NDSU.

Le Telephone [par Gabrielle Roy]: une nouvelle tragique, comique, polyphonique / Vincent L. Schonberger, Lakehead University, Thunderbay, Ont.

The nature of love in Robert Kroetsch's 'Alibi' and John Fowles's 'Mantissa' / Sue Matheson, UM.

'Le Dieu Cache' [par Aime Cesaire] dans 'Texaco' de Patrick Chamoiseau / Joseph Nnadi, UW.

Illustrations d'analyse statistique dans l'oeuvre de Gary Romain / Vina Tirvengadum, UM.

Redecouvrons Alexandra David-Neel / Andre Lebugle, UND.

Seat in the saddle, nose in the book: what travelers read [Robert Byron, 1905-1941, etc] / Marielle Risse, UND.

***Joyce's 'Dubliners': emblems of unity (Eveline, Clay, Kathleen Houlihan) / Ben Collins, UND.

Questions of interest in Samuel Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' / Eric Furuseth, Minot SU.

The subtleties of knowing: the language of power / Karen Malcolm, UW.

Electronic discourse: panoptic internet search engines / Mark Foster, UND.

Thinking critically about critical thinking / Stephen Dilks, UND.

La peinture et l'artiste dans le roman du XVIIe siecle / Sante A. Viselli, UW.

Object of desire and desiring object in Prosper Merimee's 'La Venus d'Ille' / Sherrie Fleshman, UND.

The serpent in the garden: biblical allusions in Gide's 'La Symphonie Pastorale' / Harold J. Smith, Minot SU.

***The worth of "labour" and "pley": point of view in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale' / Muriel Brown, NDSU.

Chaucer's orality: fictionalized or functional? / Joyce Coleman, UND

***Coleridge, the anti-feminist? / Murray J. Evans, UW.

***A Bonanza Farm in the Dakotas: FPG (Greve/Grove) in Amenia, near Fargo, in 1912 / Gaby Divay, UM.

***Louise Erdrich's 'Scarlet Letter': continuity in 'Tales of Burning Love' / Tom Matchie, NDSU.

Recipes imbedded in fiction as narrative device / Traci M. Kelly, UND.

***Emma Mott's 'Wants and Recommendations' / William Archibald, UND.

In praise of Petrarch: Lope de Vega's 'El Caballero de Olmedo' / Gene DuBois, UND.

***The "now" and movement in the language of Clarice Lispector / Ines Shaw, NDSU
[abstract title: Linguistic gender, grammatical gender, & sex identity: historical & contemporary views].

Movies and mock encomia: Cabrera Infante's film obituaries / Ken Hall, UND.

***Music and lyrics by Ivor Gurney / Mark Brown, Jamestown College, ND.

Marguerite Duras and Philippe Leroux: interrelations between text and music / Mary Johnson, Moorhead, Minn.

***Musical autobiography in the 19th century: Vaclav Jan Tomasek / Linwood DeLong, UW.

The most influential poet we don't have: Philetas of Cos, a Hellenistic poet-scholar / Iain McDougall, UW.

Seneca's 'Oedipus' on the stage / John Gahan, UM.

***On the nature of signs [semiotics]: the semantic nature of language / Donald Poochigian, UND.

The resistible rise of Arturo Ui: what is "resistible" in Brecht's play? / Andrew Trump, NDSU.

Georg Herwegh's reception, and the battle for the German cultural heritage / Robert G. Uebel, NDSU.

Visual Art as metaphor in the composition of Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatte / Paul von Wichert, UM.

Revision: transforming Self and text / Joan Latcaw, NDSU.

Student writers and academic discourse: problems and issues / Lena McCourtie, UW.

Researching gender patterns in narrative writing: are examples evidence? / Jacqueline McLeod Rogers, UW.