MLA 2006

MLA 2006

Philadelphia, PA

Names, Language, and Theory

Friday, 29 December, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 413, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the American Name Society

Presiding: Justin Hayes, Quinnipiac Univ.

  1. “A Seeming, Gleaming, Fragmentary Tenor: Ruth Wilcox as Memento Mori,” Kerry Manders, York Univ.
  2. “The Cockney School of Naming: Keats’s Political Allegory in ‘Caps and Bells,’” Amy R. Leal, Syracuse Univ.
  3. “New Directions in Literary Onomastics,” Grant W. Smith, Eastern Washington Univ.

The Coining of Names

Saturday, 30 December, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 401, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the American Name Society

Presiding: Joanie Crandall, Univ. of Saskatchewan

  1. “From Nat to Blacus: Reclaiming Naming in Martin Delany’s Blake,” Rebecca Skidmore, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown
  2. “‘Life Ain’t Easy for a Boy Named Josef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski’: Naming, Self-Fashioning, and the Interpellation of the Artist as Subject,” Tom Henthorne, Pace Univ., NY; Jonathan Todd Silverman, Pace Univ., NY
  3. “Nicknames as Proper Names in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,” Tara Johnson, Ball State Univ.

Respondent: Crystal Alberts, Washington Univ.