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10:30am • Butchered to Make an Austrian Holiday: Morality vs. the Crowd and How Never the Twain Shall Meet
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10:50am • The Neoliberal Bildungsroman: Individual and National “Development” in Peter Mountford’s A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
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11:10am • “Making is Half, but Ruin is Everything”: Gender, Apocalypse, and the Performance of the Other in Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance
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11:30am • Making Race Invisible: The Anticipation of Colorblind Racism in Invisible Man
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11:50am • Women's Bodies and Narrative In Drucula
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12:40pm • Babbling, Braining, and Brooding Mr. Bones: An Exploration of the Meta in 77 Dream Songs
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1:00pm • The World in Harmony Framed: An Approach to Renaissance Poetics from the Works of Thomas Campion and His Contemporaries
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1:20pm • Ovid’s Judgment of Heroes: Comic Criticism in the Metamorphoses
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1:40pm • What Could She Say?: The Problem of Female Silence in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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2:00pm • Nine Companions: Examining Loyalty Beyond Logic in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring
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2:25pm • Religion and Reality: Literature and Prophecy in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor
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2:45pm • “The Soil is Bad for Certain Kinds of Flowers”: Dominant Cultural Narratives and the Impact of Community in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
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3:05pm • Defending John Steinbeck: Morality, Philosophy, and Sentimentality in East of Eden
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3:25pm • “Gawd Owns Them Woods”: The Intersectionality of Religion, Gender, and Class in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Circle in the Fire”
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3:45pm • Searching for Middle Ground: Connecting the East and the West through Universal Themes in The Kite Runner
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4:05pm • “The Knot Loops in upon Itself”: Futility in Language, Communication, and Meaning in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
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4:25pm • “I have had my vision:” Balancing Subjective and Objective Views of Reality in To the Lighthouse