2008 Graduate Student Seminar 

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Program

 

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Time: June 14, 2008

Place: LA 302

 

1) 15 mins: paper presentation

2) 15-20 mins: commentator's response (each paper about 5 mins)

3) 10 mins: open discussion

 

1.      1:00 ¡V 2:10 Shakespeare and His Daughters

Presenter

Title

Respondent

Jeff Pan

Letter and Oath: Educational, Dysfunctional and Comical Devices in The Two Gentlemen of Verona

 

 

Cecilia Liu

Sunny Li

To Hunt or to Be Hunted?: ¡§Our Roman Hunting¡¨ in The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

Cathy Chang

Wise Children: Hybridity through Text and Voices

 

Tea Break 10 mins

 

2.      2:20 ¡V 3:50 Nature and the Supernatural in American Literature

Presenter

Title

Respondents

Hector Weng

Pearl as Proteus: Pearl¡¦s Different Functions in The Scarlet Letter

 

 

Joseph Murphy and Wen-ling Su

Clary Liu

Conflict Between Men and Nature in ¡§To Build a Fire¡¨: Who Is to Blame?

Rebecca Tsai

Is the Aim Death?  Death-Wish in Robert Frost¡¦s Two Poems

Hugo Tseng

Problematic and Dynamic Identities in Angels in America

 

Tea Break 10 mins

 

3.      4:00 ¡V 5:30 Margaret Atwood

Presenter

Title

Respondent

Stephanie Chuang

Margaret Atwood¡¦s The Blind Assassin: An Example of the Female Writing Strategy in Narrating Trauma

 

 

Hsiu-Chuan Lee

Teresa Yu

Iris and Laura as Doubles in Margaret Atwood¡¦s The Blind Assassin

Sasha Ling

Retelling the History: Iris Griffen¡¦s Blind Assassin

Alice Tsai

The ¡§I-narrator¡¨ in The Handmaid¡¦s Tale