Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium
Program 2000
Twenty-Seventh
Annual
Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium
March
31 and April 1, 2000
ON THE THEME:
Celebrating
Chaucer in 2000:
His World, His Work, His Legacy
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
SOUTH
SEWANEE, TENNESSEE
FRIDAY, MARCH THE THIRTY-FIRST
8:00 A.M. Registration begins, Convocation Hall
9:00 A.M. FIRST PLENARY SESSION, Convocation Hall
Lecture: “Chaucerian Representation
I: Mimesis”
Helen Cooper, University College, Oxford
10:30 A.M. Sessions 1 and 2
1. “The Canterbury Tales” I
Convocation Hall
Chair: John Bugge, Emory University
Paper: “‘Beth fructuous, and that in litel space’: The Engendering of Harry Bailly”
John Plummer, Vanderbilt University
Paper: “Framing Fiction with Death: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”
Celia Lewis, Baylor University
Paper: “Thinking about Money in the Shipman’s Tale”
William E. Rogers, Furman University
Comment: Joseph Hornsby, University of Alabama
2. Chaucer Today: Translation and Text
Walsh-Ellett 210
Chair: Emerson Brown, Vanderbilt University
Paper: “Chaucer and Translation”
David Lawton and Jessica Davidson Lawrence , Washington University
Paper: “Culture out of Noise: The House of Fame and Cybernetics”
Curtis Gruenler, Hope College
Paper: “Out of Old Books New E-Texts: Preserving the Legacy of Chaucer Scholarship in the Age of Electronic Texts”
Josephine Koster Tarvers, Winthrop University
Comment: Thomas D. Hanks, Baylor University
12:00 Noon Lunch, Sewanee Inn
1:30 P.M. SECOND PLENARY SESSION, Convocation Hall
Lecture: “‘My joly body schal a tale telle’: Chaucer and the Anxiety of Circulation”
R. Allen Shoaf, University of Florida
2:45 P.M. SESSIONS 3 and 4
3. Chaucer’s Reception and Legacy
Walsh-Ellett 210
Chair: Joseph B. Trahern, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: “Microscosm of Reception: The Uses of Chaucer in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calendar”
Glenn Steinberg, The College of New Jersey
Paper: “The Transformation and Use of Prefaces in Printed Editions of the Canterbury Tales from William Caxton to William Thynne”
Robert Costomiris, Georgia Southern University
Paper: “Mapping Chaucer: John Speed and the Later Portraits”
Martha Driver, Pace University
Comment: John V. Fleming, Princeton University
4. Language and Letter
Convocation Hall
Chair: Paul Barrette, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: “Narrative Metalanguage, the French Love Debate Tradition, and the Legend of Good Women”
R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University
Paper: “Chaucer, the Letter A and the ‘corones tweyne’”
James H. Morey, Emory University
Paper: “The Provenance of MS
Gg. 4. 27’s Legend of Good Women and Temple of Glas”
David Sharp, University of Toronto
Comment: Helen Cooper, University College, Oxford
4:15 P.M. Tea, Foyer of Guerry Auditorium
4:45 P.M. SESSIONS 5 and 6
5. Philosophical Chaucer
Convocation Hall
Chair: John V. Glass, Rockford College
Paper: “Philosophical Chaucer”
Kathryn L. Lynch, Wellesley College
Paper: “What Delighted our Delightful Poet? Or ‘Stant Felicitee in Delit?’”
Traugott Lawler, Yale University
Comment: Robert Yeager, University of North Carolina, Asheville
6. Chaucer’s England
Walsh-Ellett, 210
Chair: Paul Pixton, Brigham Young University
Paper: “Fame’s Heralds: Chaucer, the Officers of Arms, and the Scrope-Grosvenor Case”
J.F.R. Day, Troy State University
Paper: “The King’s Use and Abuse of the Corrody System during the Age of Chaucer”
Larry W. Usilton, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Comment: George B. Stow, Lasalle University
6:30 P.M. Cocktail Buffet, Rebel’s Rest
With music by Emerson Brown and colleagues — “The Impaired Faculties Quartet”
SATURDAY, APRIL THE FIRST
8:00 A.M. Breakfast, Foyer of Guerry Auditorium
8:45 A.M. THIRD PLENARY SESSION, Convocation Hall
Lecture: “Chaucerian Representation II: Poetics”
Helen Cooper, University College, Oxford
9:45 A.M. Coffee, Foyer of Guerry Auditorium
10:15 A.M. SESSIONS 7 and 8
7. “Troilus and Criseyde” I
Convocation Hall
Chair: Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, University of Richmond
Paper: “Chaucer’s Criseyde and Conventional Imperatives”
Laura L. Howes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: “A Sexual and Textual Criminal: The (Re)Reading of Criseyde”
Kathryn DeZur, SUNY Delhi
Paper: “Secularizing the Word: Conversion and Gender in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
Dabney Anderson Bankert, James Madison University
Comment: R. Allen Shoaf, University of Florida
8. The Chaucerian Prologue
Walsh-Ellett 210
Chair: Thomas J. Heffernan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: “The Chaucerian Prologue as Middle English Dit”
A.C. Spearing, University of Virginia
Paper: “Facing the General Prologue: Relationships Beyond Portraiture”
Norman Klassen, University of Washington
Comment: TBA
12:00 Noon Lunch Dutch Treat, Q Cafe
1:15 P.M. FOURTH PLENARY SESSION, Convocation Hall
Lecture: “Chaucer’s Two Oracles: The Bible and Ovid”
John V. Fleming, Princeton University
2:30 P.M. SESSIONS 9 AND 10
9. “Troilus and Criseyde” II
Convocation Hall
Chair: June Hall McCash, Middle Tennessee State University
Paper: “Aristocratic Friendship in Troilus and Criseyde: The World of Homosocial Courtly Values”
John Hill, United States Naval Academy
Paper: “From Speech to Silence: The Rhetoric of Chaucer’s Pandarus”
Gloria G. Jones, Winthrop University
Paper: “‘That thow be understonde, God I biseche’: The Problem of Interpretation in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
Kimberley Pruett, Auburn University
Comment: Joseph S. Wittig, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
10. “The Canterbury Tales” II
Walsh-Ellett 210
Chair: Alexander Bruce, Florida Southern College
Paper: “Hospitality in the ‘Knight’s Tale’”
Kyle S. Glover, Lindenwood University
Paper: “‘Of angles and of slye reflexiouns’: What Rhetoric Reveals to the Squire”
Kurt Haas, Mesa State College
Paper: “‘Apollo exterminans’: The God of Poetry in Chaucer’s ‘Manciple’s Tale’”
Michael Kensak, Northwestern College
Comment: Sandra J. McEntire, Rhodes College
4:00 P.M. Tea, Foyer of Guerry Auditorium
4:30 P.M. FIFTH PLENARY SESSION, Convocation Hall
“‘Taak al my good and lat my body go’: Chaucer’s Response to the Anxiety of Circulation”
R. Allen Shoaf, University of Florida
6:00 P.M. Cocktail Buffet, Rebel’s Rest