Annual Meeting of the Société Rencesvals

American-Canadian Branch

December 27, 1974

Each year in conjunction with the Modern Language Association

Convention, the Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch, holds

its annual meeting at the seminar it organizes and sponsors, devoted

to "Problems in the Medieval Romance Epic." The meeting, open to both

non-members and members of the Society, will take place this year on

Friday, December 27, from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m., in the Buckingham A Suite

of the Americana Hotel, New York City. Discussion will center on three

papers published in this issue of Olifant. The first, "Huon de Bor-

deaux: An Examination of Generative Forces in Late Epic Diction," is

by Kenneth C. Mealy, an Assistant Professor at the University of Penn-

sylvania. Professor Mealy has recently finished his dissertation under

the direction of Karl D. Uitti at Princeton and has been teaching at

the University of Pennsylvania since 1973. The second paper, "More

about Unity in the Song of Roland," is by Guy R. Mermier, Associate

Professor of French at the University of Michigan. Professor Mermier's

publications in medieval and renaissance French and Provençal litera-

ture are well known to the readers of Olifant. The final paper,

"Narrative Style in Spanish and Slavic Traditional Narrative Poetry:

Implications for the Study of the Romance Epic," is by John S. Miletich,

an Assistant Professor at Indiana State University. Professor Miletich

has recently completed a dissertation on a related subject at the

University of Chicago (see the Dissertation Abstracts listed in this

issue of Olifant) and is also known to members of the Société Rencesvals

through his participation in the discussion during the annual meeting

held last year in Chicago.

The meeting in New York will also elect a chairman for the

following year. Professor William W. Kibler of the University of

Texas has been nominated to this post by the current officers of the

Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch.

Attendance at the New York seminar and annual meeting is limited,

in accordance with MLA regulations, to the first thirty-five persons

who write in advance to the chairman for this year, Rupert T. Pickens,

Department of French, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506.

79