MLA 2006
Philadelphia, PA
Names, Language, and Theory
Friday, 29 December, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 413, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the American Name Society
Presiding: Justin Hayes, Quinnipiac Univ.
- “A Seeming, Gleaming, Fragmentary Tenor: Ruth Wilcox as Memento Mori,” Kerry Manders, York Univ.
- “The Cockney School of Naming: Keats’s Political Allegory in ‘Caps and Bells,’” Amy R. Leal, Syracuse Univ.
- “New Directions in Literary Onomastics,” Grant W. Smith, Eastern Washington Univ.
The Coining of Names
Saturday, 30 December, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 401, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the American Name Society
Presiding: Joanie Crandall, Univ. of Saskatchewan
- “From Nat to Blacus: Reclaiming Naming in Martin Delany’s Blake,” Rebecca Skidmore, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown
- “‘Life Ain’t Easy for a Boy Named Josef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski’: Naming, Self-Fashioning, and the Interpellation of the Artist as Subject,” Tom Henthorne, Pace Univ., NY; Jonathan Todd Silverman, Pace Univ., NY
- “Nicknames as Proper Names in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,” Tara Johnson, Ball State Univ.
Respondent: Crystal Alberts, Washington Univ.