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 (alf237_at_psu.edu) and Paul D. Stegner
(pds901_at_psu.edu), Penn State University, and Heather Hayton
(hhayton_at_guilford.edu), Guilford College.

Heather Richardson Hayton,
English Department
Guilford College
5800 W. Friendly Ave.
Greensboro, NC 27410
hhayton_at_guilford.edu

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