The Hermeneutics of Hell Conference

The Hermeneutics of Hell

Devilish Visions and Visions of the Devil in World Literature

Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, USA
November 7–8, 2014

Conference Schedule:

Friday, November 7

6–6:30 p.m.	Registration (Stebbings Conference Room, Barrington Center for the Arts)
6:30 p.m.	Light dinner at Gordon College for all registered participants (Stebbings Conference Room, Barrington Center for the Arts)
7:30 p.m.	The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis An Abridged Readers Theater Performance (Cinema Classroom, Barrington Center for the Arts)

Saturday, November 8

8–9 a.m.	Registration (Ken Olson Science Center outside of 124)
9–10:30 a.m.	Concurring Panels I. Spanish Contexts (Ken Olson Science Center, 124) Moderator: Gregor Thuswaldner (Gordon College) Robert Rich (University of Rochester) Controlling for all Variables: The Revitalization of James in Calderon de la Barca's El Magico Prodigioso Jill Syverson-Stork (Wellesley College) From Crack to Crack: the Devil in Cervantes Christina Liebl (University of Bamberg, Germany) The Devil as a Bailiff – Diabolic Visions and Discourses in Francisco de Quevedo Villegas Works II. American and Irish Contexts (Ken Olson Science Center, Case Study Room) Moderator: Dan Russ (Gordon College) George Piggford (Stonehill College) Visions of Hell in Flannery O'Connor Kala Holt (Baylor University) Despair as Damnation: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Charles Williams’ Descent into Hell Joshua Jones (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Snakes in the Woods: Serpentine Imagery in the Novels of Ron Rash
10:30–10:45 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:45 a.m.– 12:15 p.m.	Concurring Panels III. American and British Contexts I (Ken Olson Science Center, Case Study Room) Moderator: Dan Russ (Gordon College) Deborah Bowen (Redeemer University College, Canada) Reading the Devil in the Landscape Patricia Anders (Gordon College) The “Instruments of Darkness” in Shakespeare’s Macbeth IV. German Contexts (Ken Olson Science Center, 124) Moderator: Gregor Thuswaldner (Gordon College) David Olszynski (University of Tübingen) Astrophal redivivus. The Coinage of the Discours on the Devil in Early Modern Age in Georg Bernardt SJ’s Tundalus redivivus (1622) Dr. Caroline Sauter (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, Germany) Sym-bolism and Dia-bolism: The Hermeneutics of Hell in Goethe’s Faust, Parts I and II Anthony Grasso (King’s College) Lucifer and Lucre: Money as the Devil and the Idea of Temptation in B. Traven’s “Assembly Line.”
12–2 p.m.	Lunch
2–4 p.m.	V. American and British Contexts II (Ken Olson Science Center, Case Study Room) Moderator: Dan Russ (Gordon College) Deborah L. Klein (Faulkner University) Stephen King’s Demons Matthew L. Potts (Harvard University) ‘A landscape of the damned’: The devil, damnation, and nothingness in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark VI. Italian and Russian Contexts (Ken Olson Science Center, 124) Moderator: Gregor Thuswaldner (Gordon College) Aliyah M. Shanti (Princeton University) The Drama of Hell: Sources and Interpretation in 17th-Century Italian Operatic Infernal Scenes Ryan Brown (Boston College) Speaking With God or Speaking as God: Grace and the Diabolical in Dostoevsky’s Fiction
4–4:15 p.m.	Concluding Remarks