Keynote: Chaucerian Voice in Modern and Contemporary Historical Fiction
Professor Stephanie Trigg will deliver a keynote address on Friday 3rd.
'Chaucerian Voice in Modern and Contemporary Historical Fiction: From Anya Seton to Chaucer’s Twitter Feed'
Stephanie Trigg is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. She holds an Honours Degree and a PhD in English from the Department of English at the University of Melbourne and a B.Litt. degree in Philosophy and Social Theory from Melbourne. Stephanie is currently one of ten Chief Investigators and one of four Program Leaders in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (UWA). She leads the Melbourne node of the Centre.
'Chaucerian Voice in Modern and Contemporary Historical Fiction: From Anya Seton to Chaucer’s Twitter Feed'
The world of Chaucerian
fiction is a very expansive one. Chaucer sets the model for this expansiveness
with his framed narrative collection, The Canterbury Tales, with its
unfinished tales, its interrupted narratives and its radically truncated
conclusion. Almost as soon as Chaucer died in 1400 his followers began writing
more tales and narrative imitations, and this pattern has continued for over
six hundred years. This paper examines a range of modern examples for the
different ways they represent Chaucerian voice and character. It will range
from the much-loved and very influential biography of Chaucer’s sister-in-law,
Katherine Swynford, in Anya Seton’s Katherine (1954) through to two
novels from Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book (2014) and The Invention
of Fire (2015). It will also move beyond the genre of the novel to consider
the work of Brantley Bryant, who blogged as Geoffrey Chacuer from 2006 – 2009
and currently maintains a very active Twitter feed, Chaucer Doth Tweet (@LeVostreGC).
This paper will attempt to untangle some of the complexities that bind the
history of Chaucerian reception with that of medievalist invention.
Stephanie Trigg is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. She holds an Honours Degree and a PhD in English from the Department of English at the University of Melbourne and a B.Litt. degree in Philosophy and Social Theory from Melbourne. Stephanie is currently one of ten Chief Investigators and one of four Program Leaders in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (UWA). She leads the Melbourne node of the Centre.
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