International Anniversary Symposium
In Memoriam FPG:1879-1948-1998



Robert A. Burns (University of Guam)
Grove and the Goddess: The Language of Myth and Ritual in Settlers of the Marsh.

Sarah Dammermann (University of Toronto)
Escaping the Self Through Pseudonym: Renaming as Anti-Biography.

Helge David (Bonn University)
A Menage-à-Trois: Else-Endell-Greve, 1902/3.

Gaby Divay (University of Manitoba)
FPG International: Stefan George, Reventlow, Th. Mann, Endell, Gide, H. G. Wells.

Victor Doerksen (University of Manitoba)
House and Home: Abode in Grove's Canadian Writings.

Hiram M. Drache (Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.)
The Amenia & Sharon Bonanza Farm in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century.

Gisi von Freytag-Loringhoven (Art Historian, Tübingen)
Life is a Work of Art: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's Significance for the Fine Arts.

Irene Gammel (University of Prince Edward Island)
The Axis of Eros and Sexuality in L.M. Montgomery and F.P. Grove.

Konrad Gross (Kiel University)
Space into Place: Manitoba in Grove's Pioneer Novels.

LEONARD & MARY GROVE (Toronto) Guests of Honour

Paul Hjartarson (University of Alberta)
The Canonization of Frederick Philip Grove as a Canadian Writer.

*Amelia Jones (University of California, Riverside)
The Baroness's Flesh: Performing 'New York Dada'.

*Axel Knönagel (Rostock University)
Greve and Oscar Wilde: Promotion and Projection.

ROBERT KROETSCH (University of Manitoba) Guest of Honour
Celebrated author and Professor Emeritus of the University of Manitoba

Martin Küster (Augsburg University)
"...better than Gulliver's Travels"? FPG as Translator and Parodist of Swift's Satires.

Henry Makow (Winnipeg)
Grove's Essays on Aesthetics.

Markus Müller (University of Ottawa)
The Double Agent, or How Grove's Masquerade Writes His Autobiography.

*Ute Oelmann (Stefan George Archiv, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart)
F. P. Greve, Stefan George and the 'Blätter': Aesthetics of the George Circle in 1902.

RICHARD OTTENBREIT (University of Winnipeg)
Guide through Grove Country to Rapid City (Day Tour, Sat., 3.10.98)

Walter Pache (Augsburg University)
Greek to us, Grove: Over Prairie Trails as Odyssey.

*Alexander Pajevic (Journalist, Berlin)
Changing the Parameters of Success and Failure: Grove's Autobiographies.

*Tamara Pianos (Kiel University)
FPG's Over Prairie Trails: "...one quarter of a poem woven of impression".

*Anthony W. Riley (Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.)
Quantity or Quality? Felix Paul Greve as a Translator.

Heinz Sarkowski (Historian, Heidelberg)
Greve's Translations for the Insel Verlag, 1902-1909.

THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDWARD SCHREYER (Winnipeg)
Guest of Honour: Former Lieutenant General of Canada & Premier Minister of Manitoba

CAROL SHIELDS (University of Manitoba) Guest of Honour
The Pulitzer-Prize winning author (for The Stone Diaries, 1995) gave the Keynote Address on Grove's first Canadian book, the collection of nature essays Over Prairie Trails (McClelland & Stewart, 1922), on Wednesday, 30.9.1998

Donald Smith (University of Calgary)
Impostors in Early Western Canada: Grove, Grey Owl et al. (a Slide Lecture).

*Gerhard Stilz (Tübingen University)
The Canadian Grove: A Modernist's Return to Nature and Naturalism.

*Hans Vaget (Smith College, Mass.)
Thomas Mann and Munich, 1902: Pension Gisela, an address shared with Greve.

Julia Van Haaften (Curator, New York Public Library)
Modeling the Artists' Life: Baroness Elsa and Berenice Abbott.


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This list was compiled in May 1998 from the abstracts submitted in response to the "Call for Papers" which had been widely publicized in December 1997.
The actual presentations sometimes had different titles & scopes at the time of the Symposium in September/October 1998.


*Unable to participate in the FPG Symposium in 1998 for a variety of health reasons

For the recorded presentations by all other participants see:
In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998
The digitized Anniversary Symposium Proceedings




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