Session Information
Presentations
1: Inhabiting Alternative Laokoöns: Ezra Pound, Aimé Césaire, and the Pseudomorphic Epic
David Hobbs, New York U
2: The Politics and Poetics of Askesis in Wallace Stevens and Sri Aurobindo
Apala Das, U of Toronto
3: French-Chinese Poetics: Cross-Cultural and Symbolic Landscapes in Claudel’s Connaissance de l’Est
Eric Touya de Marenne, Clemson U
4: ‘Li Siecles Parti parmi . . .’: The Contemporaneity of Benjamin Péret’s Le Grand Jeu (1928) and the Fatrasies d’Arras (1280)
Donato Mancini, Johns Hopkins U, MD
Presider
Pichaya Damrongpiwat, Cornell U
Respondent
Adam Schoene, Cornell U