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The 1996 annual conference of the American Literature Association will be
held
in San Diego, CA, May 30-June 2.  The Mark Twain Circle will sponsor two
sessions and one special event:

Thursday, May 30, 8:00-10:30 p.m. (Evans Riverboat)
Cruise sponsored by Mark Twain Circle; board Evans Riverboat between 8:00
and
8:30.

Friday, May 31, 9:00-10:20 a.m. (Mission Room)
"Reassessing Twain in 1996"; Chair: Pascal Covici, Jr. (Southern Methodist
U)
        1. Shelley Fisher Fishkin (U of Texas), "Writers' Responses to Mark
        Twain"
        2. Victor A. Doyno (SUNY, Buffalo), "Re-assessments and
Rediscoveries:
        A Roundtable on the Oxford Mark Twain
        3. Ray Sapirstein (U of Texas), "A Cultural Historian Looks at
Twain's
        Early Editions"

Sunday, June 1, 9:00-10:20 a.m. (Evans I)
"Mark Twain and the Art of Writing"; Chair: James D. Wilson (U of
Southwestern
Louisiana)
        1. Jeffrey Steinbrink (Franklin and Marshall), "Building a Mark
Twain
        Machine"
        2. James S. Leonard (The Citadel), "Going in Circles: Images of
Writing
        in A Tramp Abroad"
        3. M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon C), "Twain and Popular Culture:
The
        Example of Tom Sawyer Abroad"

Jim Leonard

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