Disparate Gowers
Sponsoring Organization(s)
John Gower Society
Organizer Name
R. F. Yeager
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of West Florida
Presider Name
Brian W. Gastle
Presider Affiliation
Western Carolina Univ.
Paper Title 1
Making America "Great" Again: Gower's "Tale of Virgil's Mirror" and the Disastrous Potential of President Trump
Presenter 1 Name
Jeffery G. Stoyanoff
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Spring Hill College
Paper Title 2
"The Pleine Cas": Feminized Intercession in Gower's Confessio amantis
Presenter 2 Name
Emily Fogel
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Paper Title 3
Gender, Rhetoric, and Deception in Gower's Mirour de l'omme
Presenter 3 Name
María Bullón-Fernández
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Seattle Univ.
Start Date
12-5-2016 1:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 106
Description
"Divergent Gowers"
Recent literary scholarship has been increasingly attentive to how medieval culture speaks to lines of inquiry raised by feminist, postcolonial, queer, disabilityoriented,and ecocritical approaches.Long concerned with historical, political, religious, and ethical elements that inform the poet’s corpus, Gowerians are attending more closely to such questions as: What changes, when Iberian Gower (or a polyglot Britain) is put in conversation with postcolonial scholarship? Can we read the animal allegory in the Vox Clamantis alongside critical animal studies or ecocriticism? What does new scholarship about Gower’s professed blindness contribute to disability studies? How do Ovidian themes of transformation in Gower’s corpus speak to contemporary feminist, queer, or transgender discourses? We now invite presentations that entertain how Gower’s corpus can speaks to these, and other, diverse ways of thinking.
Disparate Gowers
Bernhard 106
"Divergent Gowers"
Recent literary scholarship has been increasingly attentive to how medieval culture speaks to lines of inquiry raised by feminist, postcolonial, queer, disabilityoriented,and ecocritical approaches.Long concerned with historical, political, religious, and ethical elements that inform the poet’s corpus, Gowerians are attending more closely to such questions as: What changes, when Iberian Gower (or a polyglot Britain) is put in conversation with postcolonial scholarship? Can we read the animal allegory in the Vox Clamantis alongside critical animal studies or ecocriticism? What does new scholarship about Gower’s professed blindness contribute to disability studies? How do Ovidian themes of transformation in Gower’s corpus speak to contemporary feminist, queer, or transgender discourses? We now invite presentations that entertain how Gower’s corpus can speaks to these, and other, diverse ways of thinking.