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Carissa Harris started the topic MLA 2023 CFPs! in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 months ago
The Chaucer Forum warmly invites submissions for our MLA 2023 (San Francisco, January 5-8) sessions:
Chaucer’s Ornamentalism and Gimmickry
This roundtable session brings Anne Anlin Cheng’s concept of ornamentalism and Sianne Ngai’s work on the gimmick into conversation with Chaucer’s work. For instance, in The Squire’s Tale, Canacee’s…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
To encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more] -
Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Care in the Age of Chaucer in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Care in the Age of Chaucer
Premodern care across political, ethical, religious, medical, environmental discourses. Gender, conduct, and responsibility. Consolation and therapy. Justice and reparation. (Un)caring acts and affects. Pastoral, non-Foucauldian, Lordean paradigms. Self and community. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Wan-Chuan Kao…[Read more]
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Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Atmospheric Chaucer in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
What kinds of atmospheres does Chaucer’s work engage with or create? How can we understand the social, political, ecological, juridical, poetic, sensory, or media atmospheres within which his poetry circulates? To what extent is Chaucerian poetry part of our contemporary atmosphere? How can we engage with premodern and/or modern theories of a…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
ABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-trau…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Repurposing Chaucer” (LLC Chaucer Forum) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
What are/should be Chaucerian scholarship’s ethical commitments? What is/could be its relation to Chaucerian adaptations in various media? Gender, sexuality, race, and class; politics of Chaucer scholarship and amateur or creative Chauceriana. 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations by March 15 to Catherine Sanok (sanok@umich.edu) and C…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Periodizing Race” (LLC Chaucer & Shakespeare Forums) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
What can/should be the role of the premodern in the transhistorical history of race? Chaucer/Shakespeare’s entanglements in the history of racialization; the history of race before race. Please submit 250-word abstracts of roundtable-length papers by March 1 to Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Northwestern U (susie-phillips@northwestern.edu) and M…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Chaucer's Walls” (LLC Chaucer Forum) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
What makes a wall medieval? Chaucerian walls as physical, political, phenomenological, and psychic structures. Porosity and impenetrablity. Demarcation and enfoldment. Polity and publicity. Privacy and voyeurism. Classical echoes and contemporary resonances. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee U (kaow@wlu.edu) and…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited “Rowned She a Pistel”: National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
This article analyzes the politics of anachronism in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. It argues that the Wife of Bath counters the Man of Law’s descending model of sovereignty and regulation of feminine agency with a powerful heroine who wields ascending sovereignty. The Old Wife lives in her Arthurian present and its English future simul…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
This essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.
My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]
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Candace Barrington deposited Traveling Chaucer: Comparative Translation and Cosmopolitan Humanism in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
Through the comparative study of non-Anglophone translations of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, we can achieve the progressive goals of Emily Apter’s “translational transnationalism” and Edward Said’s “cosmopolitan humanism.” Both translation and humanism were intrinsic to Chaucer’s initial composition of the Tales, and in turn, both shap…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee posted an update in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
New Chaucer Society 2018 Congress Call for Papers is live: http://newchaucersociety.org/pages/entry/2018-congress
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited “Forward,” Backward, or Somewhere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years ago
Paper given for the LLC Middle English Forum’s roundtable on “Campus Chaucer. ” See also separately uploaded PowerPoint slides (not strictly necessary; the bold in the text, however, refers to a change of slide). Contains many informational links. Accompanying PowerPoint: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6BW3B
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited Powerpoint for “‘Forward,’ Backward, or Somehwere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin” in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years ago
PowerPoint to accompany paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GP71) given in #s280 at the 2017 MLA Convention.
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited The Poetics of Practicality in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
This essay explores insistently practical medieval texts—works whose explicit goal is to assist their readers to make something in the world beyond the page (a book, a culinary dish, an ointment, an object) and asks if they can be said to have a poetics. Drawing on Michel de Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of practice as well as Gérard Gene…[Read more]
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William A. Quinn posted an update in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
Thanks to whoever nominated me to stand for election to the Chaucer Forum’s Executive Committee. My own research interests include the implications of recital, the history of verse form and and the history of reading. I hope to provide enthusiastic support for a diversity of approaches to all medieval literature. I am particularly concerned…[Read more]
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Allan Mitchell deposited Unbecoming Human in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 7 years ago
Proposing an alternative phraseology of “unbecoming” to accent the risky, tentative, epigenetic processes of human development.
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Jeffrey Cohen deposited Midhumanism in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 7 years ago
contribution to roundtable on “Becoming Human” co-sponsored by the Middle English and Chaucer forums
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