UPDATE: Vernacularity, Inclusivity, and the Nationalist Impulse in Middle English Texts (9/20/04; Kalamazoo, 5/5/05-5/8/05)

Deadline Extended:

Session Title: "'Symple speche' and 'comoun profyt': Vernacularity,
Inclusivity, and the Nationalist Impulse in Middle English Texts"

Call Description:

Postcolonial theory and practice has inspired scholars of the Middle Ages
to examine the canon in different and intriguing ways. Several Middle
English texts concern themselves with ideas of nationalism or patriotism
at the same time that they focus on the importance of writing in the
English vernacular. This panel invites explorations, conducted in a
variety of fields, of the intersections of writing in the vernacular with
medieval concerns and ideas about national identity or Englishness. Papers
addressing medieval desires or willingness to disseminate information to
or to include the common people are strongly encouraged. Also encouraged
are political-allegoriacal readings of Chaucer and Gower and
investigations of the ways that chronicles, saints' lives, fabliaux, and
other genres reveal these concerns.

The 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies will be held at
Western Michigan, in Kalamazoo, on May 5-8, 2005.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED:
Please send 300 words abstracts (electronic submissions are fine) before
September 20, 2004, to:

Patti Renda
Department of English (m/c 162)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60607

prenda1_at_uic.edu

Ph: 312-413-2200, x. 7654
(cell) 773-510-4801

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