Gower and Games (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Gower Project

Organizer Name

Eve Salisbury

Organizer Affiliation

Western Michigan Univ.

Presider Name

Eve Salisbury

Paper Title 1

Gower's Games: Making Play Serious Since 1381

Presenter 1 Name

William Rogers

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Louisiana-Monroe

Paper Title 2

Love Games: Somnolence and Sex

Presenter 2 Name

Jeffery G. Stoyanoff

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Spring Hill College

Paper Title 3

Playing with the Text: Gower's Games through Computer-Assisted Analysis

Presenter 3 Name

Kara L. McShane

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Ursinus College

Paper Title 4

Grammar, Game, and How to Read Gower's Latin: A Modest Proposal

Presenter 4 Name

Stephanie L. Batkie

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Sewanee: The Univ. of the South

Paper Title 5

Morality Games in John Gower's Confessio amantis

Presenter 5 Name

Kim Zarins

Presenter 5 Affiliation

California State Univ.-Sacramento

Start Date

13-5-2017 3:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

By going beyond games traditionally associated with premodernity---chess, backgammon, or dice, for example---and expanding the meaning of "game" to include word play, puzzles, and riddles, as well as interactive reading and storytelling, this session invites a new generation of scholars to explore the interactive features of Gower's poetry and the relation of all kinds of games to the Gowerian corpus.

Eve Salisbury