Gower and the Globe

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Gower Project

Organizer Name

Georgiana Donavin

Organizer Affiliation

Westminster College

Presider Name

Georgiana Donavin

Paper Title 1

Going Feral: Uncontrollable Languages in the Vox clamantis

Presenter 1 Name

Shyama Rajendran

Presenter 1 Affiliation

George Washington Univ.

Paper Title 2

Gower in the Globe: Reading Pericles through Confessio amantis

Presenter 2 Name

Seth Strickland

Presenter 2 Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.

Paper Title 3

"All the World's a Stage": Gower, Pericles, and Authorial Mobility

Presenter 3 Name

Eve Salisbury

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Western Michigan Univ.

Paper Title 4

Response

Presenter 4 Name

William Rogers

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Louisiana-Monroe

Start Date

14-5-2016 1:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 1035

Description

This session investigates global perspectives by John Gower, the fourteenth-century author, and by his readers in every age. Since manuscript illustrators included the famous image of the poet shooting an arrow at the world, readers have been aware that Gower's narrators often stand at a distance from the teeming globe and in a position to launch criticisms toward it. The session surveys both historical viewpoints and contemporary theoretical readings of the globe in Gower, including ecocritical investigations of the Vox Clamantis and analyses of Gower's narratives produced in The Globe Theatre.

Georgiana Donavin