Earth-Moon:
A Ted Hughes Website
»Ted Hughes and the Classics,«
University of Edinburgh, Nov 25–27 2005.
Schedule
»Ted Hughes and the Classics«
School of History and Classics, Edinburgh University
Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower 25th-27th November 2005
Friday 25 November
6pm
Wine reception
6.30-6.45pm
Welcome
6.45- 8.15pm
Session 1: Origins and Career
Keith Sagar (Manchester University): »Ted Hughes and the Classics«
Christine Finn (Bradford University): »›My first six years shaped everything‹: the childscape and pre-history of Ted Hughes's classical world«
Saturday 26 November
8.30-10.30am
Session 2: Myth
Neil Roberts (Sheffield University): »Hughes's Myth: the Classics in Gaudete and Cave Birds«
Vanda Zajko (Bristol University): »›Mutilated towards alignment?‹: Prometheus On His Crag and the ›Cambridge School‹ of Anthropology«
Sema Taskin (Bilkent University): on Hughes's Prometheus
Janne Drangsholt (Stavanger University): »A Mythic Poet«
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00am
Session 3: Language
Michael Silk (King's College London): »Ted Hughes: Allusion and Poetic Language«
12.00-1.15pm
Session 4: Tragedy
Lorna Hardwick (Open University): »Can poets do drama? The case of Ted Hughes«.
Felicity Rosslyn (Leicester University): »Hughes in search of the tragic«
1.15pm Lunch
2.15pm-3.15pm
Session 5: Oresteia
Alison Burke (Open University): »From Page to Stage: Hughes' Oresteia at the Royal National Theatre«
Hallie Marshall (University of British Columbia): on Ted Hughes and Tony Harrison
3 .15-3.45pm Tea
3.45-6.30pm
Session 6: Alcestis
Sarah Brown (Cambridge University): on Hughes, Alcestis and poetic predecessors
David Gervais (Reading University): »Ted Hughes, Racine and Euripides«
Lenore Smith (James Cook University): »›Inner Music – Naked Cadences‹: Ted Hughes's Alcestis«
Nephie Christodoulides (University of Cyprus): »Ted Hughes's Alcestis: dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit«
Sunday 27 November
9-11am
Session 7: Epic
Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University): »Transformations of the Actaeon myth: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3 and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid«
Anne-Marie Tatham (Grenoble University): »›Passion in extremis‹: a study of love, fate and metamorphosis in Hughes's Tales from Ovid«
Garrett Jacobsen (Denison University) »Ovid Unbound: Ted Hughes and the Metamorphoses«
Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow University): on Hughes's Odyssey
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30pm
Session 8: Seneca
John Talbot (Brigham Young University): »Eliot's Seneca and Lowell's Senecanism in Hughes's Oedipus«
Katie Fleming (Queen Mary's, London): »›That stately horror‹: Ted Hughes's translation of Seneca's Oedipus«
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-3.30pm
Session 9: Minor Genres
Roger Rees (Edinburgh University): »The classical genre in Ted Hughes's Laureate poetry«
Genevieve Lively (Bristol University): »Birthday Letters from Pontus: Hughes, Ovid, and the white noise of elegy«
Elina Dagonaki (Oxford University): »The Hidden Orestes: A ›Euripidean‹ reading of the Orestes' myth«
David Johansson (Brevard Community College): »Of Pictures, the Discloser: ›Song for Phallus‹«
For bookings forms, email r.d.rees@ed.ac.uk
r.d.rees<at>ed.ac.uk or go to the conference website