In any case, I decided to go with the apparent majority a while ago, because the tide is strong, lol.

The “Daddy” joke was in response to Angela Toscano’s paper, which had a riff about how the heroine’s father taught her poetry, which ended up coming in handy. She’d given a little nod to me at that point, as the poetry prof on the panel, so this was my little nod back.

Thank you for explaining – I knew it was a joke, but I did not catch the reference!

I had a GREAT time. Thank you for inviting me. You guys are a very welcoming and intellectually stimulating crowd.

I was moving toward a reading of ecriture feminine with the Cixous. Alas, as you know, 15 minutes is never enough time to fully develop a theory.

Angela

The “Daddy” joke was in response to Angela Toscano’s paper, which had a riff about how the heroine’s father taught her poetry, which ended up coming in handy. She’d given a little nod to me at that point, as the poetry prof on the panel, so this was my little nod back.

The topos / trope thing… Sigh. I guess it’s a lost cause.

Your paper has me primed to read the Sookie novels–but I can’t until Princeton is done! Wonderful to meet you at the conference–

E

I would have loved to hear the paper on Kinsale! Some things I did pick up on on my own, but there is still much food for thought. Like what was said about knowledge, for example. I feel like re-reading.

Eric said so many other things that I could not get down. It was a revelatory analysis of the book. And the whole project started when he noticed that they ended up outside Milton’s cottage. He felt it could not be coincidence, and set out to explore the Miltonian themes. Fascinating!

I’ve been feeling the lack of my literary analysis training too,

you have no idea how many times this thought has occurred to me this week!

I think you mean Laura Kinsale rather than Lisa Kleypas, and non-Euclidian geometry, rather than geography.

Of course you are right — I changed them. Thank you. This is what I get for blogging on the fly.

I had noticed and discussed before (years ago) the way that the themes of religion and madness are reflected in Maddy and Christian’s first names, so it was cool to hear that Eric noticed and commented on this as well. I would have loved to have been there for the reading of his paper. I’d also love to know what he would say about For My Lady’s Heart.

And love the sound of Eric Selinger’s paper. I adore FFTS. I’d never thought of Christian as satan before, or paired up with Maddy as Eve. Fascinating that.

I’ve been feeling the lack of my literary analysis training too, as I ponder Judy Cuevas’ Bliss.