Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Folklore and Mythology
Department
English
College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Date Range
2011-2012
Abstract
I was responsible for organizing the following two sessions and will serve as session chair for the first session: I. Folklore and Mythology I: East Asian Varieties Nov. 5, Saturday 8:30am - 10:00am 1."Fashion Can be Dangerous: Clothing Omens in Medieval China" by Suzanne Cahill, University of California, San Diego 2."Our Mothers: Boccaccio s Eve and Liu Xiang s Two Wives of King Shun" by Sherry Mou, DePauw University 3. "Myth for Myth: Motifs from Japanese Folklore and Mythology Used to Create or Support Myth of Japanese Sexuality in Russian Literature" by Linda Galvane, Osaka University II. Folklore and Mythology II: Ritual and Archetype Nov. 5, Saturday 1:30pm - 3:00pm 1."Controlling Fluid Desire: Engendering Samatvam in The Mahabharata XV and Masculine Ritual Anxiety in The Odyssey XI" by Steve Adisasmito-Smith, California State University Fresno 2."A Yoruban Narrative for Western Romance: The Palm-Wine Drunkard and Northrop Frye s Notion of Romance" byAnthony Scoggins, San Francisco State University 3."Searching for the Big Rock Candy Mountain:The Hero Quest in Contemporary American Memoirs About Riding Freight Trains" by Jessica Erica Hahn, San Francisco State University 4."The Medea Myth: The Continuation of a Marginalizing Legend" by James Hearne, Western Washington University.
Conference Name
109th Annual Conference
Conference Location
Scripps College, Claremont, California
ScholarWorks Citation
Lai, Sufen, "Folklore and Mythology" (2011). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 376.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/376
