** Papers for this conference will be posted below, as they are received. Registrants who indicate that they do not have access to the Internet will receive hard-copies. To view or download a paper, click on the paper title. Please note that you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these documents (pdf files). To obtain Adobe Acrobat Reader, go to http://www.adobe.com for further information. Papers NOT posted on this page should be available in hard-copy form, and will be mailed to those who register in advance. Papers will be available on this page until May 21, 2001.
9:30 a.m. • session 1
Paolo Cherchi, University of Chicago
Marino and the Meraviglia
Antonio Franceschetti, University of Toronto
Novitâ and Meraviglia
in the Baroque
Lisa Vollendorf, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA
Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
A Different Kind of Wonder?
Women’s Writing in Early Modern Spain
Lidia Sazonova, Institute of World Literature,
Russian Academy of Science
Poetic Facetiae in the
East Slavic Baroque: Acumen, Poesia Artificiosa, Picta Poesis
1:00 p.m. • lunch
2:00 p.m. • session 2
Thomas Cerbu, University of Georgia
“Te fama Thule novit ab
ultimâ”: The Chapbook of Fabio Chigi
Andrew Dell’Antonio, University of Texas, Austin
“Particolar gusto e diletto
alle orecchie”: Listening in the Early Seicento
Ronald Vroon, UCLA
From Liturgy to Literature:
Prayer and Play in the Russian Baroque
Felicity Baker, University College London
The Poetic Force of the
Word bizzarro in Don Giovanni
5:30 p.m. • reception
Saturday, May 5
9:00 a.m. • coffee
9:30 a.m. • session 3
Jane O. Newman, University of California, Irvine
Bibliothecae baroccae:
Books, Poetry, Aura
Peter G. Platt, Barnard College, Columbia University
“Believing and not believing”:
Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Wonder
Jon R. Snyder, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Unnatural Acts: Metaphor
in Naples circa 1640
Hilaire Kallendorf, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow,
UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Baroque Self-Exorcism and
the Rise of the Novel
1:00 p.m. • lunch
2:00 p.m. • session 4
Jean-Claude Carron, UCLA
Gallic Baroque: Ostentation
and Propaganda
Paolo Fasoli, Hunter College, City University
of New York
“I would rather drown than
not find new worlds”: Strategies of Wonder in Italian “Classicist” Poetry
Joachim Dyck, Universität Oldenburg
“Against aesthetic pleasure”:
Classical Tradition in the Poetics of the German Baroque
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