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Ted Hughes 2000 – An International Conference. University Lumière-Lyon, 25 & 26 February 2000.
Conference Programme
Friday 25 February 2000
9:00 - 9:30
Nicholas BISHOP (England)
»A Lifetime's End, New Beginning: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters & Tales from Ovid« cancelled
9:45 - 10:15
Leonard SCIGAJ (Virginia Tech, U.S.A.)
»The Deterministic Ghost in the Machine of Birthday Letters«
11:30 - 12:00
Gayle WURST (Princeton, U.S.A.)
»Words to ›Patch the Havoc‹: The Imagination of Ted Hughes in the Early Poetry of Sylvia Plath«
12:15 - 12:45
Carol BERE (U.S.A.)
»›Complicated with old ghosts‹: the ›Assia‹ poems«
14:00 - 14:30
Terry GIFFORD (Bretton Hall, England)
»›Dead Farms, Dead Leaves‹: Culture as Nature in Remains of Elmet and Elmet«
14:45 - 15:15
Christian LA CASSAGNÈRE (Lyon, France)
»›Ted Hughes's crying horizons‹: ›Wind‹ and the poetics of Sublimity«
16:30 - 17:00
Ann SKEA (Sydney, Australia)
»Poetry & Magic«
17:15 - 17:45
Stephen ENNISS (Emory, U.S.A.)
»›Fragments of a Life‹: A Preliminary Reading of the Ted Hughes Archive«
Book-launch: The Laughter of Foxes.
Saturday 26 February 2000
9:00 - 9:30
Alex DAVIS (Cork, Ireland)
»›The Without-World of the Other‹: Self and Non-Self in Hughes's Early Poetry« cancelled
9:45 - 10:15
Axel NESME (Lyon 2, France)
»Drives and their vicissitudes in Ted Hughes's Poetry«
11:30 - 12:00
Neil ROBERTS (Sheffield, England)
»Hughes and the female addressee«
12:15 - 12:45
Joanny MOULIN (Bordeaux 3, France)
»Ted Hughes's Anti-Mythic Method«
14:00 - 14:30
Diane MIDDLEBROOK (Stanford, USA):
»In Search of the Autobiography of Ted Hughes«
14:45 - 15:15
Paul VOLSIK (Paris 7, France)
»›Merely anecdotes‹, ›small tales ... big myths‹ and ›successful legend‹ — Ted Hughes and the FolkTale«
16:30 - 17:00
Claas KAZZER (Leipzig, Germany)
»›Earth-Moon‹: Ted Hughes's Books for Children (& Adults)«
17:15 - 17:45
Keith SAGAR (Manchester, England)
»Not the New Selected Poems«
There will be coffee breaks in mid morning and mid afternoon, and longer
breaks for lunch.
On the Friday afternoon, critical books on Ted Hughes will be offered for
sale.