Hoccleve Less Studied
Sponsoring Organization(s)
International Hoccleve Society
Organizer Name
Meredith Clermont-Ferrand
Organizer Affiliation
Eastern Connecticut State Univ.
Presider Name
Elon Lang
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-Austin
Paper Title 1
Counterfeiting God: A Reading of Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue
Presenter 1 Name
Jessica Auz
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Purdue Univ.
Paper Title 2
"English Deschamps": Thomas Hoccleve’s Metrical Rivalry with Chaucer
Presenter 2 Name
Nicholas Myklebust
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Regis Univ.
Paper Title 3
Hoccleve's Theoretical Iconoclasm
Presenter 3 Name
Eleanor Johnson
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Start Date
14-5-2015 10:00 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 2030
Description
We seek papers that make an effort to de-familiarize Hoccleve studies by emphasizing Hoccleve’s texts that are not normally considered to have much weight in Hoccleve scholarship, and to explore the gravitational pull they might have to Medieval Studies and Fifteenth Century Studies as a whole. In particular, by looking beyond The Regiment of Princes, this session proposes a more robust and heterogeneous perspective on the Hocclevian literary corpus. We propose that participants consider not only under-represented texts, but also resonances within the texts themselves to each other and to both modern and medieval generic and scholarly discourses. Questions to consider might include: how might Hoccleve’s (over)use of the penitential genre affect its power to console? How might the Formulary expose genre indeterminacies by disseminating seemingly contradictory forms—the bureaucratic and the artistic—in the context of fifteenth-century poetry that exposes a fundamental instability of both genres? How might Hoccleve’s translations both undermine and reinforce ideas of masculine literary identity? By engaging in this carnivalesque celebration of textual expansion, we hope to turn Hoccleve’s lesser known works into their own competitive cooperation of divergent voices within this writer’s full literary corpus.
We especially welcome paper proposals that consider Hoccleve’s lesser known works in the context of theory, manuscript dissemination, textual history and/or media studies, modes of social engagement, and connections between themes, literary devices, language, and prosody.
Meredith A. Clermont-Ferrand
Hoccleve Less Studied
Fetzer 2030
We seek papers that make an effort to de-familiarize Hoccleve studies by emphasizing Hoccleve’s texts that are not normally considered to have much weight in Hoccleve scholarship, and to explore the gravitational pull they might have to Medieval Studies and Fifteenth Century Studies as a whole. In particular, by looking beyond The Regiment of Princes, this session proposes a more robust and heterogeneous perspective on the Hocclevian literary corpus. We propose that participants consider not only under-represented texts, but also resonances within the texts themselves to each other and to both modern and medieval generic and scholarly discourses. Questions to consider might include: how might Hoccleve’s (over)use of the penitential genre affect its power to console? How might the Formulary expose genre indeterminacies by disseminating seemingly contradictory forms—the bureaucratic and the artistic—in the context of fifteenth-century poetry that exposes a fundamental instability of both genres? How might Hoccleve’s translations both undermine and reinforce ideas of masculine literary identity? By engaging in this carnivalesque celebration of textual expansion, we hope to turn Hoccleve’s lesser known works into their own competitive cooperation of divergent voices within this writer’s full literary corpus.
We especially welcome paper proposals that consider Hoccleve’s lesser known works in the context of theory, manuscript dissemination, textual history and/or media studies, modes of social engagement, and connections between themes, literary devices, language, and prosody.
Meredith A. Clermont-Ferrand