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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2315: Climates of Consciousness, II: Ecologies of the Natural and Unnatural

Friday 9 July 2021, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Oecologies Research Group
Organisers:David Coley, Department of English, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Kenna L. Olsen, Department of English, Mount Royal University, Alberta
Moderator/Chair:Ashby Kinch, Department of English, University of Montana
Paper 2315-aWooden Words from the Flower of Chivalry: Robert of Cisyle's Less than Non-Human Speech
(Language: English)
Scott Russell, Department of English, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Philosophy, Rhetoric
Paper 2315-bLogics of Landscapes: Finding Truth through Chaos in Chaucer's House of Fame
(Language: English)
Kenna L. Olsen, Department of English, Mount Royal University, Alberta
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Philosophy, Rhetoric
Paper 2315-cReforming the Landscape: Literary Form against Ecology in Wynnere and Wastoure
(Language: English)
Sarah-Nelle Jackson, Department of English, University of British Columbia
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Philosophy, Rhetoric
Abstract

These sessions seek to explore how space and form - ecologies of consciousness - inform, challenge, and perpetuate reading, writing, consideration, and understanding in the medieval and early modern eras. Focusing on the 'climates' of perceptions, philosophies, and cosmologies of the premodern world, they query and explore how immediate and perceived environments created and generated texts and concepts from the medieval and early modern eras that are reliant on aspects of form, both imagined and real. How do the ecological proclivities of premodern cultures and understandings inform our exploration of the past, present, and future? This session, the second of two sponsored by the Oecologies Research Group, explores Middle English literary texts, to understand how material ecologies and landscape informed human understanding of self and society.