Chaucer and the Senses I: Sight

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

Seeing Is Believing: Custance, Agency, and the Problem of the Human in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale

Presenter 1 Name

Holly A. Crocker

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of South Carolina

Paper Title 2

Through Glass Darkly: The Spatial Memory of the Temple of Venus in Chaucer's House of Fame

Presenter 2 Name

Rory Sullivan

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Paper Title 3

"Lokynge upward upon this Emelye": Vision, Space, and Identity in Chaucer's Romances

Presenter 3 Name

Anne Scott

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Northern Arizona Univ.

Paper Title 4

Sight and Chaucerian Characterization: The Nun's Priest

Presenter 4 Name

Joseph Turner

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Louisville

Start Date

11-5-2018 1:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 210

Description

The papers consider Chaucer’s ways of visualizing space and time, memory, character, and the very model of humanity. Works examined include the House of Fame, the Man of Law’s Tale, the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, and the General Prologue.

David Raybin