Dreiser Sessions 2008 ALA
San Francisco
Friday, May 23, 2008
5:00 – 6:20 pm
Session 14-D Dreiser’s Influences: National, Social, and Literary (Pacific F)
Chair: Gary Totten, North Dakota State University
- “Homeward Bound/Identity Found: Home and National Identity in James’s The American Scene and Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday,” Donna
Packer-Kinlaw, University of Maryland
- “Sentimentality and the Social Sciences: Warring Currents of the Progressive Era in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy,” Jill M.
Neziri, Fordham University
- "A Rumor of War: Philip Caputo's American Tragedy," Stephen C. Brennan, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Saturday, May 24, 2008
8:00 – 9:20 am
Session 15-D Dreiser as Pragmatist, Naturalist, and Muckraker (Pacific F)
Chair: Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
- “More than Snakes and Flies: The Centrality of Nature in The Bulwark,” Annette R.
Dolph, Ohio State University
- "Dreiser as Muckraker: Elements of Literary Exposé in The Financier,” Jennifer Louise Young, University of Alabama, Birmingham
- "American Pragmatism in the Money Novels of Norris and Dreiser," Roark Mulligan, Christopher Newport University
Saturday, May 24, 2008
9:30 – 10:50 am
Session 16-L Business Meeting: The International Theodore Dreiser Society (Pacific D)
Conference
Information: The American Literature Association’s 19th annual
conference will meet at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco on May 22-25,
2008 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). For further
information, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org
or contact the conference director, Professor Maria Karafilis of
California State University, Los Angeles at mkarafi@calstatela.edu
with specific questions.
Location:
Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Embarcadero Center, 5 Embarcadero Center,
San Francisco, CA 94111, 1-800-233-1234
Conference
Fee: For those who
pre-register before April 15, 2007:
$85 ($35 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired
Faculty). After April
15, the fees are $100 and $50.
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