Lacunae: Noticing What Is Not There
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Canadian Society of Medievalists/La Société canadienne des médiévistes
Organizer Name
Stephanie Morley
Organizer Affiliation
St. Mary's Univ.
Presider Name
Stephanie Morley
Paper Title 1
Chauntecleer's Glossless Vision: A Lacuna in the Nun's Priest's Tale
Presenter 1 Name
Luke William Mills
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Wingate Univ.
Paper Title 2
"Al ne is nat gospel": Genre and Lacunae in The Legend of Good Women
Presenter 2 Name
Alyssa Coltrain
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Rutgers Univ.
Paper Title 3
"Manners Maketh Man," but What about Woman? Conduct Literature for the Medieval English Gentlewoman
Presenter 3 Name
Kristin Canzano Pinyan
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Rutgers Univ.
Start Date
12-5-2016 1:30 PM
Session Location
Valley I Ackley 106
Description
This session aims to query the nature of absence and the productive possibilities that come of paying attention to what is not there. Three papers treat a broad array of lacunae--Chaucer's deliberate or puzzling poetic and narrative omissions; a curiously absent corpus of formal conduct literature for gentlewomen in the latter fifteenth century; missing glosses and missing conclusions---that nonetheless coalesce in their inquiry into the philosophical and practical predicament of dwelling in empty spaces and what that might illuminate about interpretive strategies, generic critique and approaches to gendered education in medieval culture and medieval studies.
Stephanie Morley
Lacunae: Noticing What Is Not There
Valley I Ackley 106
This session aims to query the nature of absence and the productive possibilities that come of paying attention to what is not there. Three papers treat a broad array of lacunae--Chaucer's deliberate or puzzling poetic and narrative omissions; a curiously absent corpus of formal conduct literature for gentlewomen in the latter fifteenth century; missing glosses and missing conclusions---that nonetheless coalesce in their inquiry into the philosophical and practical predicament of dwelling in empty spaces and what that might illuminate about interpretive strategies, generic critique and approaches to gendered education in medieval culture and medieval studies.
Stephanie Morley