>
>
>Subject: CFP: Medieval Canonicity & Authority (10/15/04; ACLA,
>3/11/05-3/13/05)
>
>"Medieval Canonicity: Transmission, Authority, and Authorship" is a
>12-person panel at the American Comparative Literature Association's
>annual conference ("Imperialisms--Temporal, Spatial, Formal"), to be held
>at Penn State University (State College, PA) on March 11-13, 2005.
>
>>From their inception, notions of canonicity in the medieval period have
>undergone a series of assaults, revaluations, and reorientations from
>positions of authority and resistance. Following the general conference
>theme of imperialisms, this panel considers the literary, religious,
>political, and intellectual pressures that influenced textual production
>and circulation in the Middle Ages. The panel aims to open an
>interdisciplinary and multilingual dialogue to examine the relationship
>between literary authority in the medieval period and contemporary notions
>of authors, authorship, and canonicity.
>
>Possible topics include:
>?       How medieval authors positioned themselves and their texts in
>relation to political and ecclesiastical authorities
>?       Gender and auctoritas
>?       The interplay between ?major? and ?minor? writers, and ?major? and
>?minor? genres
>?       The reception and use of classical authority in the Middle Ages
>?       Translatio studii, imperii, amoris
>?       Physical and social pressures on manuscript production and
>transmission (scribes, patrons, early book printing)
>?       Medieval literary theories of textual governance and arrangement
>?       Medieval concepts of nationhood and the composition and
>dissemination of vernacular and Latin texts
>?       Teaching, portraying, and consuming the Middle Ages
>?       The collection, reception and re-creation of medieval texts in the
>early modern era
>?       Modern and postmodern medievalisms
>?       Anthologies and miscellanies (premodern or contemporary)
>?       Philology?New or otherwise
>
>For more information, or to submit an abstract, visit the conference
>website at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/ACLA/ .  The ACLA
>conference structure allows for panel participants to meet for a 2-hour
>session each of the 3 days of the conference, thus encouraging greater
>interaction and scholarly conversation. For queries, feel free to contact
>panel organizers: Annika Farber ([log in to unmask]) and Paul D. Stegner
>([log in to unmask]), Penn State University, and Heather Hayton
>([log in to unmask]), Guilford College.
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>Heather Richardson Hayton,
>English Department
>Guilford College
>5800 W. Friendly Ave.
>Greensboro, NC 27410
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