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VI Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference

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Location

Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY

Date

April 24-26, 2004

Program

Keynotes:
  • H.R. Stoneback (SUNY New Paltz) - Unearthing the "Buried Treasure": Revisiting a Roberts Discovery & Epiphany in the Sacred "Time of Man"—AD 1968
  • Jane Keller (University of Baltimore) - Where oh Where—and Why oh Why—Did Elizabeth Madox Roberts Go?
  • Rebecca Roberts Owens (Independent Scholar) - A Roberts Family History: Past and Present Life in the Pigeon River Country and Beyond

Presentations:
  • Bill Boyle (SUNY New Paltz) - "My Love For You Will Never Die": The Songs of "I Love My Bonny Bride"
  • Rachael Price (SUNY New Paltz) - "I’m Still A-Livin": Representations of Life and Death in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man
  • Gregg Neikirk (Westfield State College) - Mystery and History in Kentucky: Elizabeth Madox Roberts and A Buried Treasure
  • William Slavick (University of Southern Maine) - Another Irish Connection: The Time of Man and John McGahern’s The Barracks
  • Stefan Spezio (SUNY New Paltz) - The Place of Being and The Being of Place: Interior and Exterior Frontiers in Roberts’ The Time of Man
  • Brad McDuffie (Independent Scholar) - The Short Cinematics of the Soul: or Looking Through the Glass Darkly; Haunting Folk Rhythms, "Last Rights" and Cinematic Splicelings of Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ "Death at Bearwallow"
  • Matthew Nickel (SUNY New Paltz) - The Tale and What It Can Tell
  • Terry Ward (Saint Catharine College) - In the Graveyard: Welty and Roberts Affirming Life
  • Nicole Camastra (SUNY New Paltz) - "Hold[ing] The Very Key to Her Life and Breath in His Hand": Modernism, Mystery and the Risk of Love in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man
  • Carol Talmage (SUNY New Paltz) - Ellen’s Book
  • Goretti Vianney-Benca (SUNY New Paltz) - Language and Folksong in Roberts’ The Time of Man
  • Jane Keller (University of Baltimore) - Rocky Mountain Hideaway: Roberts’ "Lost" Years in Colorado: 1910 to 1916
  • James Stamant (SUNY New Paltz) - Soil Filament of the Life Bulb: The Land as the "Slender Thread" Conductor in The Time of Man
  • Adam Romano (Highland Library) - The Goose That Might Have Laid the Golden Thimble: Images of Archetypes in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Black Is My True Love’s Hair
  • Steven Florczyk (Independent Scholar) - "Of A Kind Older Than Kings": Understanding Frontier Law in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Great Meadow
  • Joshua Gran (SUNY New Paltz) - Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Existentialism, and the Search for Roots
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