Chaucer's Voices I: Frame versus Core

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Chaucer Review

Organizer Name

Susanna Fein, David Raybin

Organizer Affiliation

Kent State Univ., Eastern Illinois Univ.

Presider Name

David Raybin

Paper Title 1

Challenging Authority in The House of Fame

Presenter 1 Name

Jacob Couturiaux

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Connecticut

Paper Title 2

"By My Soun": Voice, Sound, and the Material of Poetry

Presenter 2 Name

Steele Nowlin

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Hampden-Sydney College

Paper Title 3

Who Tells The Merchant's Tale?

Presenter 3 Name

Robert J. Meyer-Lee

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Agnes Scott College

Paper Title 4

Framing the Core: The Traumatic Center of The Canterbury Tales

Presenter 4 Name

William Rogers

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Louisiana-Monroe

Start Date

12-5-2017 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1220

Description

The papers in "Chaucer's Voices I: Frame vs. Core" distinguish the voices of Chaucer as implicit narrator and of the narrators and characters in his poems. Jacob Couturiaux and Steele Nowlin treat the House of Fame; Robert J. Meyer-Lee examines the Merchant's Tale; and William Rogers considers trauma as a central motif in the Canterbury Tales.

David Raybin