November 14-16, 1979
with Saul Bellow, Herbert Blau, J. M. Cameron, Paul de Man, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Ihab Hassan, Mark Krupnick, Barbara Myerhoff, Richard Poirier, Jane Gallop, Rockwell Gray, Barbara Johnson, Peggy Kamuf, Mary Lydon, George Morgan, Ann Barr Snitow, and Mary K. Wakeman
November 14, 1979
Welcome: Thomas Ewens, Director, Center for 20th Century Studies
Mark Krupnick: “Modernism at the End of its Tether: Lionel Thrilling on the Self”
Workshop: “The Self and the Mother”
Jane Gallop, Mary Lydon, Barbara Johnson, and Peggy Kamuf
Workshop: Rockwell Gray and George Morgan
J.M. Cameron: “Autobiography and Philosophical Perplexity”
November 15, 2019
Herbert Blau: “Missing Persons; or, the Marriage of True Minds”
Richard Poirier: “On the Obliterations of the Self”
Dorothy Dinnerstein: “Some Uses of Gender to Keep the Self Pre-Human”
Workshop: Dorothy Dinnerstein, Ann Bar Snitow, and Mary K. Wakeman
Saul Bellow: “Novelist, Subject, Public”
November 16, 1979
Screening: Number Our Days
Ihab Hassan: “Parabiography: The Varieties of Critical Experience”
Barbara Myerhoff: “The Sounded Self: Dramatization and Ritualization of Autobiography by Invisible People”
Screening: Number Our Days
Paul de Man: “The Self and the Resistance to Literary Theory”
