The Pleasure of the Unpredictable in Middle English Narrative
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Leigh Smith
Organizer Affiliation
East Stroudsburg Univ.
Presider Name
Leigh Smith
Paper Title 1
Story, Legend, or Life? Negotiating Genres in The Clerk's Tale
Presenter 1 Name
Marc Guidry
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Stephen F. Austin State Univ.
Paper Title 2
Surprise and Delight as Mystical Practices in Julian of Norwich
Presenter 2 Name
Maria L. C. Prozesky
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Pretoria
Paper Title 3
Friendship, Sodomy, and Incest: Chaucer's Unpredictable Pandarus
Presenter 3 Name
Richard Sévère
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Centenary College
Paper Title 4
What's Neuroscience Got to Do, Got to Do with It? What's Love but a Rhetorical Emotion in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Presenter 4 Name
Scott D. Troyan
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Start Date
15-5-2016 8:30 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 2030
Description
Middle English authors constantly employ and break the patterns set by their Continental models and creating expectations in their readers (for example, by presenting the signifiers of a particular genre) and then surprising them by refusing to conform to those expectations. This session will explore to what degree they do so deliberately for the pleasure of their audiences and to what degree this apparent tendency is a modern construct.
The Pleasure of the Unpredictable in Middle English Narrative
Fetzer 2030
Middle English authors constantly employ and break the patterns set by their Continental models and creating expectations in their readers (for example, by presenting the signifiers of a particular genre) and then surprising them by refusing to conform to those expectations. This session will explore to what degree they do so deliberately for the pleasure of their audiences and to what degree this apparent tendency is a modern construct.