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Program
Organized by Charlotte Estrade (cestrade@parisnanterre.fr) and Chloé Thomas (chloe.thomas@univ-angers.fr)
With the support of CREA (Nanterre), LARCA (CNRS / Paris-Cité) and SEM (Société d’études modernistes).
The times indicated are all CET (Nanterre time).
Nanterre, amphithéâtre, bâtiment Weber, and online: https://webtv.parisnanterre.fr/lives/live_bat_max-weber_amphi_w
Please note that all afternoon papers will be given online, but the general public is welcome at Nanterre where coffee and conversation will be had.
10:45 – Welcome coffee
11:00 – Sean Mark (U. catholique de Lille): “Toward the evening of a gone world”: on forgetting Hugh Kenner
11:30 Hélène Lesbros (Nanterre): “Energized units”: Hugh Kenner’s intermedial approach to Buckminster Fuller’s writings and designs
12:30 Lunch Break
14:30 Conversation: Hugh Kenner and (non) – academic writing.
15:30 Jean-Michel RabatĂ© (U. Penn) – On (not) meeting Kenner in Copenhagen
16:00 Barry Ahearn (Tulane) – Hugh Kenner at Johns Hopkins
16:30 coffee break
17:00 Barry Cole (U. of Alabama) – The Intersection of Marginalized Thinkers and Shunned Spaces in the Critiques of Hugh Kenner
17:30 Joseph Staten (U. Chicago) – Syntax in
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Geoffrey Chaucer
English poet and author (c. 1340s – 1400)
"Chaucer" redirects here. For other uses, see Chaucer (disambiguation).
Geoffrey Chaucer (CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.[1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry".[2] He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey.[3]
Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son, Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament having been elected as shire knight for Kent.
Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, Troilus and Criseyde, and Parlement of Foules. He is seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English when the dominant literary languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin.[4] Chaucer's contemporary Thomas Hoccleve hailed him as "the firste fyndere of our fair langage" (i.e., the first on