[etni] [FWD: Book History Conference at BGU
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ALL INVITED TO ATTEND A CONFERENCE AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV: JUNE
14-15
BOOK HISTORY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE AND CULTURE.
SEE FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM BELOW!!
The Conrad and Chinita Abrahams-Curiel Department of Foreign Literatures and
Linguistics
Have the pleasure of inviting you to a conference on
BOOK HISTORY APPROACHES
TO LITERATURE AND CULTURE
June 14-15, 2004
Which will take place at the New Campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Conference Hall A and W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall, Room -136
JUNE 14, 2004 IN ENGLISH
Conference Hall A
9:30 Welcome and Introductions
Barbara Hochman, Chair, Department of Foreign Literatures and
Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Iris Porush, Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
10:00-11:00 ?Book History in 2004: A View from North America?
Ezra Greenspan, Southern Methodist University
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Book History as Textual Criticism
Chair: Mark Gelber, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
?The Text in Motion: Eighteenth-Century Continuations of Defoe?s Roxana?
Robert Griffin, Tel-Aviv University
?Uncle Tom?s Cabin for Children, 1852-1910: From Instruction to Delight?
Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
??Anguish, Beauty, and a Feeling of Identity?: The Reception of Call it Sleep
in the 1960s?
Tresa Grauer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-16:00 The Book as Culture and Counter-Culture
Chair and Respondent: Aaron Landau, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
?On the Hero?s Face as Portrayed by Maskilim?s Tales and Counter Hasidic Tales?
Zeev Gris, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
?Rabelais and Donne: Imagined Libraries?
Chanita Goodblatt, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Representing the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century
Anglo-American Print Culture
Chair: Gerda Elata, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
?The Land and the Books: Popular Travel Literature on the Holy Land and the
Limits of Orientalism?
Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
?Jonah Historically Regarded: Melville?s Moby Dick and Kitto?s
Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature?
Ilana Pardes, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
?Paternity, Authenticity, and the Holy Land in Myriam Harry?s La Petite
Fille de Jerusalem?
Milette Shamir, Tel-Aviv University
June 15
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14:00-16:00 IN ENGLISH
W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall, Room ?136
Graduate Student Session: Readers, Editors, and Authors
Chair: Efraim Sicher, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
?Reading by the Letter: Reading Lessons in Jane Austen's Novels? Zehava
Rotman, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev
?The Portable Faulkner Dust Jacket: Judging a Book by its Cover?
Linda Dayan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
?A Prisoner of Reputation: Mark Twain and His Readers?
Hamutal Yellin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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