Session Details

Monday, 28 December

137. Greening the Globe

8:30–9:45 a.m., Commonwealth Hall A1, Loews

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Folklore and Literature

Presiding: Alexander J. Hunt, West Texas A&M Univ.

1. “‘An Art Which Does Mend Nature’: Hybridity, Ecology, and the Persephone Myth,” Talya Meyers, Stanford Univ.

2. “Mother Goose Meets Mother Nature: Sustainable Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century French Literature,” Jennifer Gipson, Univ. of California, Berkeley

3. “Tabula Rasa: Environmental Folklore in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,” Michael Spiegel, Univ. of Virginia

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