medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Colleagues,
I am seeking proposals for a seminar at the 2003 ACLA in San Diego. These
seminars can accommodate 10-12 people, meeting for 2 hours a day over 3
days, so it is more than a simple presentation. It's a chance for in-depth
discussion and collaboration!
The Dynamics of Age in Late Medieval English Literature and Culture
The last twenty years have seen a dramatic increase in research about the
late-medieval English family, particularly the role of women and the place
of children. Nonetheless, while gender has assumed the position of an
analytical category in many disciplines, age has not yet been interrogated
as a category on a par with gender, class, or ethnicity.
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this seminar seeks to engage the
question of age in late medieval literature and culture and invites
participants interested in the topic, broadly construed. Papers might deal
with the place of children or the elderly in canonical literary texts like
Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, Piers Plowman, medieval drama, and other texts; the
"ages of man" literature; the role of children in different genres or
textual traditions like hagiography, chronicles, epistolary literature, or
law texts; the definition and/or utility of age group cohorts and family
structures in medieval literature and culture; and other such possibilities.
Papers theorizing specifically the dynamics of age or age in relation to
other analytical categories are especially invited.
Please contact Daniel Kline, Assistant Professor of English, University of
Alaska Anchorage with 1 page proposals.
See the ACLA website for more details: www.acla.org
Yours,
Dan
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Dr. Daniel T. Kline
Asst. Prof. of English
U of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
Ofc: 907-786-4364
Fax: 907-786-4383
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