Ken's message reminds me also to announce that, along with a roundtable on
the Mutability Cantos, the International Spenser Society is sponsoring a
session at the 2009 MLA on "Spenser and Character," organized by Andrew
Escobedo of Ohio University. Here's the call for papers as it will appear
in the February MLA Newsletter:
Spenser and Character. Literary character, flat and round, personification,
Aristotelian ethos, moral agency. Character versus subject? Are there
characters in The Faerie Queene? What is a character before the novel?
Abstracts by March 1 to Andrew Escobedo, [log in to unmask]
Do send Andrew an abstract and/or forward to colleagues and students who
might be interested.
Katherine
Katherine Eggert
President, International Spenser Society
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of English
University of Colorado
226 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0226
(303) 492-7382
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Gross" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: Mutability Cantoes, call for papers
> Dear All,
>
> I wanted to let everyone know that next yeart at the MLA, the
> International Spenser Society is hosting a session on the Mutability
> Cantos, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of their publication
> in 1609. The session is planned as a roundtable discussion, with
> perhaps six or seven scholars reading short pieces, about 5 to 7
> minutes in length. Papers can be on any aspect of the poem, its
> story-telling, its iconography, its philosophical backgrounds, its
> politics, its relation to FQ as a whole, ideas about its composition,
> and survival, its reception, etc. Please send paper proposals or
> abstracts to me, at [log in to unmask], by 1 March. And if you have
> any thoughts about colleagues not on the Sidney-Spenser list who might
> be willing to contribute, please also let me know.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ken
>
> ______
>
> Kenneth Gross
> Professor of English
> University of Rochester
> Rochester, NY 14627
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> 585 275-4098
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