2011 URI Conference Program - URI Graduate Student Conference
2011 URI Conference Program - URI Graduate Student Conference
2011 URI Conference Program - URI Graduate Student Conference
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G r a d u a t e C o n f e r e n c e<br />
<strong>URI</strong><strong>2011</strong><br />
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS<br />
SESSION IV 2:45 - 4:00 p.m.<br />
Panel A - Dwelling (In Writing): The Uncontainable, Unstable,<br />
and Inescapable<br />
Room 306, Moderator: Sarah Kruse<br />
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Benjamin M.W. Brand, Brown University<br />
(Pre-)Occupied with Writing: Misunderstood Writing and the Misreadings<br />
of Goethe, Kafka and Paul Auster<br />
Erin Guydish, Indiana University of Pennsylvania<br />
Postmodern Relationships Between Authors, Readers, and Subjectivity<br />
Libby Goddard, University of Miami<br />
Dwelling in Inexpressibility: Beckett and the Preoccupation of Existence<br />
in Textes pour Rien/Texts for Nothing<br />
Panel B - Contemporary American Fiction: The Mercurial,<br />
the Material, the Profane<br />
Room 309, Moderator: Donald Rodrigues<br />
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Matthew Balliro, University of Rhode Island<br />
The Work (And Play) of Profanation: Giorgio Agamben and David<br />
Foster Wallace<br />
Gabriel E. Romaguera, University of Rhode Island<br />
Mercurial Meaning: How Authorial Intention Shifts in Microserialized<br />
Works<br />
J.C. Lee, University of Rhode Island<br />
Materialism and the American Dream: Increased Consumption and the<br />
Appropriation of Consumer Identities and a New Rags to Riches<br />
Mythos<br />
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