Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
April 4-6, 2003 at California State University, San Marcos
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 panel 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 (afdtk@uaa.alaska.edu) with 1 page proposals by
October 15. Further conference information can be found at
http://lynx.csusm.edu/acla2003/ .
Professor Daniel Kline
Department of English
University of Alaska, Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
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