Canada Chaucer Seminar

The 5th Annual Meeting University of Toronto

27 April 2013

Ardis Butterfield - Writing Chaucer's Life: The Evanescence of the Archive

Kathy Cawsey - Doing – and failing to do – things with words in Book of the Duchess and Parlement of Foules

Elizabeth Edwards - Speech as Action and the progress of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde

Leah Schwebel - Not Another ‘Olde Story’: The Rhetoric of Erasure in Chaucer’s Thebes

Laurence De Looze - Misconception in Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale

John Geck - From thennes faste he gan avyse / This litel spot of erthe: GIS and the General Prologue

Timothy Miller - Retraction History: A History of License in Chaucerian Interpretation

Robert Epstein - The Wife of Bath and the Gender of the Gift

James Weldon - O word er I go: Grisilde and Closure in the Naples Manuscript

Centre for Medieval Studies

Lillian Massey Building, 3rd Floor, 125 Queen’s Park, Toronto Coffee and Muffins at 9:00 · Sessions Begin at 9:30

Registration is free

Generously Sponsored by: the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of English at the University of Toronto; the Department of English and the Medieval Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier University; and the Canadian Society of Medievalists

A Reception in Honour of James Weldon will be held from 6:00-7:30 in the Great Hall

For further information please contact the organizers: William Robins : william.robins@utoronto.ca

Giselle Gos : gisellegos@fas.harvard.edu