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