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The Gower Project is sponsoring a session at the Medieval Association of the Pacific, to take place in Albuquerque, NM, March 6-7, 2009. Please respond to the session described below by emailing a proposal to Georgiana Donavin (gdonavin@westminstercollege.edu) by October 1.
New Approaches to John Gower
During the 1990s the poetry of the great fourteenth-century English poet John Gower underwent a critical renaissance encouraged by new feminisms, historicisms and approaches to philology. This renaissance is still proceeding as postcolonial and ecocritical readings of Gower’s poems are gaining attention. Along with new methodologies in criticism, the phenomenon of Gower in hypertext has also deeply affected the ways in which Gower scholars are rethinking the interpretation and textual editing of Gower’s poems. This session proposes to highlight such new approaches to Gower’s poems. I t will include three speakers, each of whom will concentrate on a cutting edge trend in Gower studies, from remediating Gower’s poems on the Web to current modes of literary criticism.
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