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,” 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,” keynote address

Session Eleven

Chair: Louis Martz

John Walsh, “David Finn Paintings Inspired by Four Quartets,” 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 Revisited”

Mohammad Shaheen, “Eliot and Islam”

Richard Shusterman, “Reactionary Meets Radical Critique: Eliot and Contemporary Culture Criticism”