CFP: Sympathy in Chaucer (9/15/06; Kalamazoo, 5/10/07-5/13/07)

Abstracts are invited for a Special Session at Kalamazoo 2007
entitled "Sympathy in Chaucer." This session is a sequel to last
year's successful one under the same title and follows a series of
sessions in previous years on "Sympathy in the Later Middle Ages."
The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2006.

Proposals may treat any aspect of sympathy, as we now understand the
term in its various senses, in any of the works of Chaucer. Possible
areas of analysis include

• Chaucer's (or his characters') rhetoric pertaining to pathos;
• fellow-feeling within his works, whether between individuals,
genders, or communities;
• probable patterns of early audience sympathies;
• reception history as it reflects affective response to Chaucer's
writings.

Other relevant topics and all theoretical orientations are welcome.

Brief abstracts should be submitted to Britt Mize at bmize_at_tamu.edu.

Britt Mize
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University

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