T.S. Eliot Centennial Conference
Program
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18
Session One
Chair: Carroll F. Terrell
Introduction of Distinguished Guests
Session Two
Chair: Joseph Bentley
A.D. Moody, Keynote Address
Session Three
Panel One
Chair: Jewel Spears Brooker
Wendy Stallard Flory, “The Exorcism of Self-Loathing in ‘Family Reunion’ and ‘Little Gidding’”
Sebastian Knowles, “Dante in the Blitz”
Richard Badenhausen, “The Chorus as First Voice in Murder in the Cathedral”
Panel Two
Chair: Russell Elliot Murphy
Vinnie-Marie D’Ambrosio, “Five-Finger Exercises”
William Harmon, “Reactions to The Waste Land”
Peter Dale Scott, “Pound in The Waste Land, Eliot in The Cantos”
Session Four
Chair: Carroll F. Terrell
Philip Williams, “Eliot, Intertextuality and Japanese Poetics”
Koji Kawamoto, “Basho’s Haiku and Tradition”
Toshikazu Niikura, “Parodies and Allusions in Japanese Modernism”
Session Five
Chair: John Matthias
Assisted by Patrick Deane, Vincent Sherry, and Thomas R. Whitaker
“T.S. Eliot and the Paintings of David Jones,”&Բ;slide show
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19
Session Six
Panel One
Chair: John Walsh
Joan Fillmore Hooker, “Visions and Revisions: ‘Gerontion’ in French”
Ron Bayes, “T.S. Eliot, Noh, and Mishima”
Nancy Gish, “T.S. Eliot and Hugh MacDiarmid”
Panel Two
Chair: Cleo Kearns
Edward Lobb, “Chamber Music: Closed Rooms and Difficult Women”
Karen Foster, “Prufrock: A New Genre”
Eiko Araki, “The Symbolism of T.S. Eliot”
Session Seven
Chair: Hugh Kenner
Grover Smith, “Eliot and the Ghost of Poe”
Russell Elliot Murphy, “T.S. Eliot’s Grandchildren: The Generation of the Sixties”
Shyamal Bagchee, “Eliot’s ‘Only’”
Session Eight
Chair: Grover Smith
Hugh Kenner, “The New Invisibilities”
Louis Martz, “‘Ash Wednesday’: Voices for the Veiled Sister”
Harvey Gross, “You Are the Music”
Session Nine
Panel One
Chair: Desmond Egan
Rex McGuinn, “Reading Four Quartets on Location”
Timothy Materer, “Eliot on Occultism in Four Quartets”
John Paul Riquelme, “‘Ash Wednesday’: A Necromantic Misprision”
Panel Two
Chair: Harvey Gross
Ronald Bush, “Turned Toward Creation: T.S. Eliot in 1988”
Dennis Ryan, “T.S. Eliot’s London Letters: The Role of Ideology and Art in The Waste Land”
Balachandran Rajan, “Milton, Eliot, and Yeats”
Session Ten
Chair: Grover Smith
Cleanth Brooks, “The Waste Land, Sixty Years Later,”&Բ;keynote address
Session Eleven
Chair: Louis Martz
John Walsh, “David Finn Paintings Inspired by Four Quartets,”&Բ;slide show
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20
Session Twelve
Panel One
Chair: Walter Sutton
Joseph Bentley, “How to Read the End of The Waste Land”
Leon Surette, “T.S. Eliot and J.L. Weston: A Reassessment”
Al J. Montesi, “The Making of The Waste Land”
Desmond Egan, “Eliot in Ireland”
Panel Two
Chiar: Laura Cowan
Cleo McNelly Kearns, “T.S. Eliot and Marianne Moore”
James Longenbach, “Uncanny Eliot”
Sanford Schwartz, “Objective Correlatives in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry”
Session Thirteen
Chair: Ronald Bayes
Jewel Spears Brooker, “Making Sense of Eliot’s Dissertation”
Walter Sutton, “Eliot, Pound, and Impersonal Theory”
David Roessel, “Eliot’s Straw Men and Pound’s Politicians at Pons Sublicius”
Session Fourteen
Chair: A.D. Moody
Max Nänny, “The Waste Land&Բ;𱹾ٱ”
Mohammad Shaheen, “Eliot and Islam”
Richard Shusterman, “Reactionary Meets Radical Critique: Eliot and Contemporary Culture Criticism”