ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <title>Annual Meeting of the Société Rencesvals</title> <meta name="Description" content="<b>Vol 2 (2) 1974 </b>"> <script language="javascript"> location.replace("http://ezp.lndlibrary.org/login?auth=Olifant&url=http://libproject.loyola.edu/Olifant/articles/Olifant2twoMtgp79.pdf");</script> </head> <body lang=EN-US style='text-justify-trim:punctuation'> <div class=Section1> <span style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Arial'>Annual Meeting of the Société Rencesvals</span></b></p> <span style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Arial'>American-Canadian Branch</span></b></p> </body></html> <span style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Arial'>December 27, 1974</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>Each year in conjunction with the Modern Language Association</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>Convention, the Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch, holds</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>its annual meeting at the seminar it organizes and sponsors, devoted</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>to &quot;Problems in the Medieval Romance Epic.&quot; The meeting, open to both</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>non-members and members of the Society, will take place this year on</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>Friday, December 27, from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m., in the Buckingham A Suite</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>of the Americana Hotel, New York City. Discussion will center on three</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>papers published in this issue of <i>Olifant. </i>The first, &quot;Huon de Bor-</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>deaux: An Examination of Generative Forces in Late Epic Diction,&quot; is</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>by Kenneth C. Mealy, an Assistant Professor at the University of Penn-</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>sylvania. Professor Mealy has recently finished his dissertation under</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>the direction of Karl D. Uitti at Princeton and has been teaching at</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>the University of Pennsylvania since 1973. The second paper, &quot;More</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>about Unity in the Song of Roland,&quot; is by Guy R. Mermier, Associate</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>Professor of French at the University of Michigan. Professor Mermier's</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>publications in medieval and renaissance French and Provençal litera-</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>ture are well known to the readers of <i>Olifant. </i>The final paper,</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>&quot;Narrative Style in Spanish and Slavic Traditional Narrative Poetry:</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>Implications for the Study of the Romance Epic,&quot; is by John S. Miletich,</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>an Assistant Professor at Indiana State University. Professor Miletich</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>has recently completed a dissertation on a related subject at the</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>University of Chicago (see the Dissertation Abstracts listed in this</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>issue of <i>Olifant) </i>and is also known to members of the Société Rencesvals</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>through his participation in the discussion during the annual meeting</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>held last year in Chicago.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>The meeting in New York will also elect a chairman for the</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>following year. Professor William W. Kibler of the University of</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>Texas has been nominated to this post by the current officers of the</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>Attendance at the New York seminar and annual meeting is limited,</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>in accordance with MLA regulations, to the first thirty-five persons</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>who write in advance to the chairman for this year, Rupert T. Pickens,</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>Department of French, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Courier'>79</span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></p> </div> </body> </html>