6.0522 Confs: Bible & English Lit; Displaying Rare Books (2/77)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 17 Feb 1993 15:23:01 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0522. Wednesday, 17 Feb 1993.
(1) Date: 17 Feb 93 16:43:53 GMT (61 lines)
From: David Denison <MFCEPDD@fs1.art.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Bible and English Literature Confernece
(2) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 09:08:39 EDT (16 lines)
From: Jim Kelly <JRKJAN8@GWUVM>
Subject: Conference announcement
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Date: 17 Feb 93 16:43:53 GMT
From: David Denison <MFCEPDD@fs1.art.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Message for HUMANIST
THE SECOND G. L. BROOK SYMPOSIUM:
MANCHESTER, 31 MARCH-2 APRIL 1993
THE BIBLE AND ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO 1500
This residential conference is organised by the English Department of the
University of Manchester. It will run from the evening of Wednesday 31
March until tea-time on Friday 2 April. The venue is Langdale Hall near the
University. A list of speakers and their provisional titles follows. We have
allowed some space in the programme for a session of short contributions (ten
minutes each) on the topic `Uses of the bible text as a literary source'.
Short contributions on Middle English topics are still welcome; please write
with details as soon as possible to Miss Maxine Powell, Department of English,
University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL (phone 061 275 3145).
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S P E A K E R S
Malcolm Godden (keynote address): The trouble about Sodom: English responses
to biblical sex
Robert Adams: Medieval anti-semitism and Chaucer's `new Rachel'
John Alford: The bible as a rhetorical source of inventio in Rolle, Chaucer,
Langland
John Anderson: Scriptural quotation as working method in Piers Plowman
Jodi-Anne George: The use of the Book of Daniel in Old and Middle English
literature
Gerald Hammond: What was the influence of the medieval bible on the sixteenth-
century bible?
Conrad Lindberg: Literary aspects of the Wyclif bible
Roy Liuzza: Who read the gospels in Old English?
Richard Marsden: Old English biblical poetry: beyond the bible
Peter Meredith: Direct and indirect use of the bible in medieval English drama
Barbara Raw: Verbal icons in late Old English
Hugh White: Book's bold speech and the archana verba of Piers Plowman B
Passus 18
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COSTS
10 registration (payable now) + 70 (postgraduates 40) full residence fee,
payable by 23 March. Enquiries and payments (cheques payable to `University
of Manchester') to Maxine Powell.
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 09:08:39 EDT
From: Jim Kelly <JRKJAN8@GWUVM>
Subject: Conference announcement
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There are still a few places remaining for the 19 March conference entitled
"Exhibiting Rare Books" which is to held at the Smithsonian Institution's
S. Dillon Ripley Center in Washington, D.C. The registration fee is $35 and
includes morning coffee and lunch.
For further information, please contact Jim Kelly, Catalog Dept., Gelman
Library, George Washington University, 2130 H St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20052
202 994-6848; 202 994-1340 (fax); JKRJAN8@GWUVM.Bitnet; JRKJAN8@GWUVM.GWU.EDU.
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