Chaucer's Voices II: Truth versus Trumpery

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

Political and Linguistic Order in Chaucer's Lak of Stedfastnesse

Presenter 1 Name

Chad Crosson

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Berkeley

Paper Title 2

The Chaucer-Gower Quarrel

Presenter 2 Name

Frederick M. Biggs

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Connecticut

Paper Title 3

The Friar, the Summoner, and "Al This Compaignye"

Presenter 3 Name

David K. Coley

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Simon Fraser Univ.

Paper Title 4

The Scent of the Text: Entente, Emotion, and Narrative in the Summoner's Tale

Presenter 4 Name

Gregory Roper

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Dallas

Start Date

12-5-2017 1:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 2020

Description

The papers in "Chaucer's Voices II: Truth vs. Trumpery" explore such oppositions as authenticity vs. deceit, sincerity vs. salesmanship, plain speech vs. rhetorical eloquence - oppositions that appear in ways both declamatory and subtle in Chaucer's experiments with poetic voices. Chad Crosson examines Lak of Stedfastness; Frederick Biggs considers the genuine anger in the Gower's voice; and David Coley and Gregory Roper treat voices in the Friar's Tale and Summoner's Tale.

David Raybin