IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 502: New Directions in Manuscript Studies: Queer Readings, I
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Roberta Magnani, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Diane Watt, School of Literature & Languages, University of Surrey |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Paper 502-a | Queering Medieval Manuscripts: Anachronism, Asynchrony, and Agency (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 502-b | Queer Futurities: Reorienting Adam Scriveyn (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 502-c | Gower Out of Time and Place (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 502-d | On the Edge: Chaucer and Gower's Queer Glosses (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Over twenty years ago Carolyn Dinshaw argued for a queering of Chaucer's manuscripts. More recently, the framing of medieval studies through queer theory has offered valuable avenues of investigation which have pushed forward Dinshaw’s work (studies by Anna Klosowska, Steven Kruger, Glenn Burger, Karma Lochrie, Tison Pugh, Diane Watt, to mention but a few). Dinshaw's initial engagement with the materiality of Chaucer’s manuscripts and, in particular, with their queer margins has, however, been largely neglected. These sessions seek to re-assess the field of medieval manuscript studies in the light of recent theoretical concerns which bring into focus the multiple ways in which medieval codices encounter and manifest the queer. |