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9:20am Parallel Panels 33a. Paradise Lost, Comparative Views Rm 17606
Chair: Christophe Tournu, University of Strasbourg
Poetic Pleasure and Temperate Reading in Areopagitica and Paradise Lost
-Sara Saylor, University of Texas
The Limits of Worst in Paradise Lost and King Lear
-Daniel Shore, Georgetown University
Melancholic Imagery in Paradise Lost
-Wataru Sasakawa, Kitami Institute of Technology
3b. Milton and the Romantic Tradition Rm 17607
Chair: Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa
"The Clouded Ruins of a God" or: Why Milton's Satan became a Romantic Hero
-Evan LaBuzetta, Independent Scholar
"Life to him would be death to me": The Romantic Struggle against the Miltonic Legacy in John Keats's Hyperion
-Mie Gotoh, Fukuoka University of Education
Points of Contact: Nature in Milton's Paradise Lost and Wordsworth's Nature
-Hiroko Tsuji, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts
3c. Milton, Race, and Modernity Rm 17608
Chair: Hugh Adlington, University of Birmingham
Twenty-First Century Milton: Modern Technology's Positive Trivialisation of John Milton
-Michelle Zappa, University of Exeter
Voicings of Dominion in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Toni Morrison's A Mercy
-Bill Fitzhenry, California Polytechnic State University
Rendering Milton's Black Sisterhood Visible
-Reginald A. Wilburn, University of New Hampshire
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10:50am Coffee Break Foyer (Blg. 17, 6th Floor)
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11:20am Plenary Session 2 Honda Memorial Hall
Chair: Thomas Corns, Bangor University
Milton and the Politics of Jesus: From Regicide to Restoration
-John Coffey, University of Leicester
Milton: The Muse, the Spirit, the Prophets, and Prophetic Poetry
-Barbara Lewalski, Harvard University
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12:50pm Lunch Break
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2:10pm Parallel Panels 4
4a. Paradise Lost: Sin and Materiality Rm 17606
Chair: Margaret Kean, University of Oxford
Desire and the Poetics of the Flesh in Paradise Lost
-Noam Reisner, Tel Aviv University
Is "a Spirit" Incorporeal or Corporeal? The Materiality of God in Paradise Lost
-Kazunori Kawasaki, Nihon University
4b. Milton: Poetics and Politics Rm 17607
Chair: Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University
“Unspeakable desire to see, and know": The Private and Public Spaces of Milton’s 1671 Poems
-Eric B. Song, Swarthmore College
Sublime Violence in Milton's Republican Sonnets
-John D. Staines, John Jay College, City University of New York
Milton's Contra-pair Sonnets: "to the Lord General Cromwell" and "To Sir Henry Vane the Younger"
-Nanami Kobayashi, Doshisha University
4c. Miltonic Drama Rm 17608
Chair: Beverley Sherry, University of Sydney
"Somebody’s Fool": Samson and the Absurd
-William Shullenberger, Sarah Lawrence College
Samson Agonistes as a Japanese Noh Play
-Hiroko Sano, Aoyama Gakuin University
Milton’s Use of the Classical Messenger Scene in Samson Agonistes
-Stella P. Revard, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (read by Beverley Sherry, with an introduction by Barbara Lewalski)
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3:40pm Tea Break Foyer (Blg. 17, 6th Floor)
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FREE TIME
4:20-5:30pm Recommendation: Ota Museum, famous for a fine collection of Ukiyoe prints.
(10 min. by taxi from AGU and 10 min. by taxi to the Noh Theatre).
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7:00pm Noh Play National Noh Theatre (Sendagaya)
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