The Mark Twain Circle of America will sponsor the following sessions at
this month's MLA convention in Chicago:
Session #61: MARK TWAIN AND DIFFERENCE*
Monday, December 27th 5:15-6:30 p.m., Columbian Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Chair: Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Univ. of Texas, Austin
1. " 'You Could Hear Him in Illinois': Deafness, Laughter and Mark Twain,"
Christopher Krentz, Univ. of Virginia
2. "'Concerning the Jews' at One Hundred," Eliza Russi Lowen McGraw,
Vanderbilt University
3. "_Following the Equator_: Twain's Redescription of Civilization," Bong
Eun Kim, Koisin Univ., Korea
4. "Understanding Mark Twain's Female Adolescents Through the
Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir," Carla Anderson, Michigan State University
*A sign language interpreter is scheduled for this session.
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Session #338. NEW DIRECTIONS IN MARK TWAIN STUDIES
Tuesday, December 28th 3:30-4:45 p.m., Atlanta Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Chair: Laura Elise Skandera-Trombley, Coe Coll.
1. "Mutual Influences: Mark Twain's and C.D. Warner's Views of Children in
Their Early Work," Ryuichi Asayama, Soka Univ., Japan
2. "Back to the Future: Twain, Bellamy, and the Techno-utopian Impulse,"
Joel Dinerstein, Univ. of Texas, Austin
3. "The 'Circus Side' of Twain's 'Object Lesson in Democracy': _A
Connecticut Yankee_ and the Economy of Apocalyptic Spectacle," Charles
Martin, Florida State Univ.
4. "Mark Twain's _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ and the Influence of Slave
Narratives," James O. Brecher, Univ. of South Florida
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The Mark Twain Circle will also sponsor a reception at the Palmer House (17
E. Monroe) on December
28th from 5:15-7:15. (Check with the Concierge for the room number.)
Those of you who wend their
way over to the Palmer House from the Hyatt (seven blocks, they tell me)
will be rewarded--with
food, drink, convivial conversation, a report from _Huck Finn_ CD-ROM
Project Manager Marta Werner,
and........a surprise or two.
See you there!
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