Centuries' Ends, Narrative Means
24-27 March 1994

Conference Director: Larry J. Reynolds

"Centuries' Ends" explored the ways in which the ending (or sense of ending) of particular centuries affects the production of literary or historical narratives and, reciprocally, the ways in which narrative forms and conventions affect the histories (lived or constructed) at the ends of particular centuries.

Susan Stewart, Temple University, "Traherne's Centuries"
Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University, "End Game: A Model of Cultural Studies"
Jean-Francois Lyotard, University of California, Irvine, "Being Done with Narrative by Cubism and Andre Malraux"
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University, "Shame at the Threshold"
Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Enigma: Anticipating Historical Endings"

Brook Thomas, University of California, Irvine, "The Frontier Thesis as a Narrative Reconstruction"
Steven Mullaney, University of Michigan, "Mourning and Misogyny: The Final Progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-1607"
Jeffrey Knapp, University of California, Berkeley, "Rogue Nationalism"
Susan Mizruchi, Boston University, "W. E. B. DuBois and the Dialogue of Death"
Dudley Andrew, University of Iowa, "Pedagogy, Democracy, Aesthetics, and the Whale of History in Tanner and Berger's 'Jonah Will be 25 in the Year 2000"
Ali Behdad, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Disappearing Exotic: Orientalism at the End of the Nineteenth Century"
Margot Norris, University of California, Irvine, "The (Lethal) Turn of the Twentieth Century: War and Population Control"
Jennifer Wicke, New York University, "Fin de Siecle and the Technological Sublime"
Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan, "The Adolescent Boy: Fin-de-siecle Femme Fatale?"

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