16TH ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES CONFERENCE
“HUMOR & LAUGHTER IN LITERATURE & FILM” MARCH 23 – 24, 2007
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007
8:15 A.M.-9:00 A.M. Registration and Breakfast PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAMS CENTER – Lounge 9:00 A.M.-10:30 A.M. Panel Meetings
Session 1 THE USE OF COMEDY IN FILMS Public Service Programs Center -- Room C Chair: _______________ Cecilia Macheski LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE “Comedy of Transgression: Room with a View, Enchanted April, and Tea with Mussolini” Marco A. Domínguez TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY “The Comic Father, a Surrogate Dad: A Look at the Father and Son Relationship in Film Comedies” William B. Covey SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY “What’s Up, Doc?: Cavell’s Comedy Rules and New Hollywood Film
Session 2 BITTER HUMOR IN MEDIEVAL SPANISH POETRY Public Service Programs Center -- Room E Chair: _______________
José María Rodríguez García CORNELL UNIVERSITY “Reescritura crítica y ‘ley del asentimiento’ en la lírica y el chiste’’
Kenneth Brown UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY “Eschatological Humor in the POEMA DE MIO CID” Peter Cocozzella BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY “Ingenious and Sour Humor in the Misogynistic Background of Celestina, Act I” Daniel Salas-Díaz UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER “Razón de amor” as a serious joke: A celebration of masculine identity in 13th century Aragon”
Session 3 LAUGHING DISCOURSES: FROM DIOGENES THE CYNIC TO BAKHTIN Public Service Programs Center -- Room F Chair: _______________ Scott Rubarth ROLLINS COLLEGE “Why Diogenes wasn’t funny: The trials of a stand-up philosopher” Sophia Leahy UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO “Plato and Humor” Alla Boldina BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY “Foolishness Regained, or The Socio-Psychological Essence of the ‘Laughing’ Discourse: Freud and Bakhtin
10:30A.M.-10:45 A.M. Coffee Break Public Service Programs Center – Lounge
10:45A.M.-12:15P.M. Panel Meetings
Session 4 HUMOR AND QUEERNESS IN FRENCH AND QUEBECOIS FILMS Public Programs Service Center – Room C Chair: _______________ Gilbert Darbouze BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY “Rire ou ne pas rire dans Cyrano de Bergerac: la pièce et le film” Nathalie Cornelius BLOOMBURG UNIVERSITY “Who’s the man? Québec’s Comic Cinema and the Question of French Canadian Identity” Michael Lane APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY “Straightening The Closet : Queerness as Performance in Francis Veber’s Le Placard ” Siendou Konaté LYCOMING UNIVERSITY
“Le tragic-comique de la condition africaine dans Allah n’est pas obligé de
Kourouma’’
Session 5 SATIRE AND PARODY IN SPANISH LITERATURE Public Programs Service Center -- Room E Chair: _______________ Susana Liso UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA’S COLLEGE AT WISE “De la historia y la nación en la leyenda culta” Dolores Martín Armas SUNY AT POTSDAM “Humor, transgresión y género en la reciente novela lesbiana española : La inspectora García’’ Paola Bianco WILKES COLLEGE “Irony and Parody in Nicanor Parra’s Poetry”
Session 6 HUMOR IN FRENCH FARCES AND MOLIERE Public Programs Service Center -- Room F Chair: _______________ Laurence Erussard HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES “The Humor of Disability: Blindness and Laughter in Old French Literature” Michael Tinkler HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES “The Soul’s Progress – right side up and upside down” Ji-hyun Philippa Kim SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY “In Gods’ Dressingroom: Molière’s Amphitryon and the King’s Two Bodies” Karine Proux-García CORNELL UNIVERSITY “Translating Tartuffe: Satire and Religion in the Age of Reason”
12:30P.M.–1:45P.M. Lunch Public Service Programs Center -- Dining Room 1:45P.M.-3:15P.M. Panel Meetings
Session 7 THE SUBVERSIVE NATURE OF COMEDY Public Programs Service Center -- Room C Chair: _______________ Luther Riedel THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY – CATONSVILLE “Bodily Humors/Body Language: Expanding the Epistemological Boundaries of Comedy”
Douglas J. Glick BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY “Parallelism and voicing as techniques of stand-up comedy: The humor and politics of Eddie Izzard’s conversations in/as history” Nicole Calandra UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS – AMHERST “Facing the ‘Future Imperfect’: Inevitable Comic Destinies in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”
Session 8 FICKLE, SICKLE, TICKLE, WE’RE IN A PICKLE: HUMOR AND LAUGHTER AND THE SPACE OF ENCOUNTER IN THIS WACKY, WACKY, TOPSY-TURVY WORLD Public programs Service Center -- Room E Chair: _______________ Armorel Gruber EDINBORO UNIVERSITY “Cultural Clichés and the German occupation of France: The Unlikely Humor of Allo Allo” Leo Gruber EDINBORO UNIVERSITY “Multi-Cultural Chaos: The Study Abroad Experience in L’Auberge Espagnole” Amanda Frantz-Mamani EDINBORO UNIVERSITY “An American’s View on Humor, Death, and Mayhem in British Mysteries” Carlos Mamani GANNON UNIVERSITY “Ha, Ha, You’re Killing Me and I don’t Know If to Laugh or Cry: Humor as a Weapon of Cultural Resistance in Native American Cultures”
Session 9 HUMOUR AS SOCIO-CULTURAL CRITIQUE IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN NARRATIVES: MIDDLE AGES TO MODERNITY Public Programs Service Center -- Room F Chair: _______________
Leslie Boldt-Irons BROCK UNIVERSITY “ ‘Nothing is funnier than unhappiness’: the ‘Ends’ of Humour in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame” Tamara El-Hoss BROCK UNIVERSITY “When Objects Symbolize Modernity: Comic Relief in Driss Chraïbi’s La Civilisation ma mere!...” Corrado Federici BROCK UNIVERSITY “Wit as Instrument of Demystification in the Novels of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino” Ernesto Virgulti BROCK UNIVERSITY “Comic and Parodic Elements in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron”
3:30P.M. - 4:45 P.M. RECEPTION
5:00P.M. – 6:30P.M. Guest Speaker LECTURE HALL 10
SANDRO STICCA PROFESSOR OF FRENCH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY Editor of Mediaevalia and Studia Italica
Author of: The Latin Passion Play: Its Origins and Development The Planctus Mariae in the Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages La poetica del tempo sacramentale. “L’Annonce faite à Marie » di Paul Claudel e “Viviana” di Memmo Pinori
Will Speak On
Mundus Inversus: The Comic Between Sacred and Profane
7:00P.M. Banquet PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAMS CENTER -- Dining Room
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007
8:15A.M.-9:00A.M. Registration and breakfast LECTURE HALL - Lobby 9:00A.M.-10:30A.M. Panel Meetings LECTURE HALL
Session 10 SLAPSTICK AND THE CLOWN AS MODERNIST SYMBOLS Lecture Hall 3 Chair: _______________ Melissa C. Navia THE GRADUATE CENTER – CUNY “Beyond the Laughs: Friendship, Truth, and Innovation in the Comedy of Laurel and Hardy” William Solomon GETTYSBURG COLLEGE “Slapstick Modernism and the Beats” Andy Stott SUNY BUFFALO “Grimaldi’s Melancholy Legacy: Modernity and the Derelict Clown”
Session 11 NICANOR PARRA’S POETRY Lecture Hall 4 Chair: _______________ Alva Cellini ST. BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY “Anti-Analysis Of Nicanor Parra’s Antipoems”
Oscar D. Sarmiento SUNY POTSDAM “Against Poetic Misogyny? Erica Jong Answers Back to Nicanor Parra”
Session 12 IRONY AND SARCASM IN CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC NARRATIVE Lecture Hall 5 Chair: _______________ Mark D. Harris WILKES UNIVERSITY “On the Lighter Side of Things: Humor and Existentialism in the Short Fiction of Julio Cortázar” Olga Juzyn RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE “El humor de Borges y la modernidad” Maricarmen R. Margenot RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE “BUFONES Y TĺTERES: UN ACERCAMIENTO A LOS PERSONAJES EN LA NARRATIVA DE LUIS LANDERO” Elizabeth Rivero CONNECTICUT COLLEGE “Humor y memoria histórica: Caras extrañas (2001) de Rafael Courtoisie”
Session 13 SATIRE AND HUMOR IN CINEMA AND TELEVISION Lecture Hall 12 Chair: ________________ Colette Lindroth CALDWELL COLLEGE “Mocking Miss America: Sunshine Subverts, Congeniality Complies” Aaron Tillman UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND “ ‘Fuck My Tuchas’: Ethnicity and Narcissistic Fantasy in Sarah Silverman’s Jesus Is Magic”
Jesse Dorst MACALESTER COLLEGE “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: Suburban Shangri-La”
Matthew Moore ROBERTS WESLEYAN COLLEGE “Exposing Globalization: Local Resistance in Northern Exposure”
Session 14 TRAGICOMIC HUMOR IN THEATER AND POETRY Lecture Hall 13 Chair: _______________ Jason Denman UTICA COLLEGE “Tragicomic Humor in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster” Mary Lindroth CALDWELL COLLEGE “ ‘very tragical mirth’: Common Players, Royal Audiences and Shakespeare’s Praise of Folly in A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Sarah Klenbort BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY “Hell is Other People” Natalya Sukhonos HARVARD UNIVERSITY “The visionary power of laughter in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets”
10:30A.M.-10:45A.M. Coffee Break - Lecture Hall Lobby 10:45A.M.-12:15P.M. Panel Meetings
Session 15 COMIC AND POLITICAL SELF-REFLEXIVITY IN CINEMA Lecture Hall 3 Chair: _______________
David Randall BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY “The Condition of ‘My’ Condition: The Polemics of Parody and Self-Reflexivity in The Big Lebowski” Mark O’Connor SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY “The New Originals: Irony and Intertextuality in Four Contemporary Comic Artists” Elly Williams THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION “Gender and the Ironic Comic in the film The Matrix”
Session 16 FARCE AND SATIRE IN HISPANIC CHRONICLES AND HISTORICAL FICTION Lecture Hall 4 Chair: _______________ Liliana Trevizan SUNY POTSDAM “Satire in Pedro Lemebel’s Chronicles of Chile” Marco Dorfsman UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE “Historical Fiction in a Different Key” Robert L. Fiore UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA “El humor y su contexto en la picaresca hispánica” Luis M. González CONNECTICUT COLLEGE “Risas contra la II República: La Oca (Muñoz Seca, 1931)”
Session 17 SLAPSTICK AND HUMOR IN HISPANIC FILMS Lecture Hall 5 Chair: _______________
Jorge Diaz-Castro UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE “The Arte Povera Movement as a Paradigm for the Development of Puerto Rican Cinema” Wesley Weaver SUNY CORTLAND “El humor en el cine español de hoy” Patricia Dorame-Holoviak BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY “Demasiado amor de Sara Sefchovich. Subversión de la identidad y (re)configuración sexual en el México contemporáneo : renegociación e interferencia en el cine”
Session 18 IRONY AND PARODY IN ITALIAN AND ROMANIAN LITERATURE Lecture Hall 12 Chair: _______________ Marella Feltrin-Morris ITHACA COLLEGE “Achille Campanile and the Comic of Misinterpretation” Maria Cristina Chiusa Associazione per le Arti Francesco Mazzola PARMA, ITALY “Dalla vaghezza alle note comico-realistiche: testimonianze del Cinquecento romano e padano”
Session 19 SATIRE, IRONY, AND THE GROTESQUE, IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE Lecture Hall 13 Chair: _______________ Brandon Shaw UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS – AMHERST “Escatology and Scatology: Jonathan Swift on the End of Man” Lauren P. De La Vars ST. BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY “Ironic Imperialists in Kipling’s Indian Gothic Short Stories The Man Who Would Be King (1888) and The Mark of the Beast(1891)”
Amanda Drake UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA – LINCOLN “The Witty Words of Lucy Snowe: The Stabilizing Influence of Humor in Vilette” James R. Lindroth SETON HALL UNIVERSITY “Flannery O’Connor and the Comic Grotesque: Negotiating the Gap Between the Sacred and the Profane”
12:30P.M.–1:45P.M. Lunch Public Service Programs Center -- Dining Room