Abstracts for papers delivered at the 2013 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Diego may be accessed in a searchable pdf located at Program.

The International Spenser Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2014 meeting in New York:

Spenser and Narratology

What can the vocabulary and analytical frameworks of narratology bring to the study of Spenser? And what can the study of Spenser bring to the theory of narratology? These two fields of study have not generally been explicitly connected, and this panel will consider how putting them in direct conversation may enlarge and illuminate both. Central to Spenser’s writing is his emphasis on the space between plot, story, discourse, and allegory; his play with voice, point of view, character, and personification; his creation of diegetic universes and once familiar and disorienting; and, most generally, his exploration of the limitations of language and representation to render adequately the internal conflicts and external pressures to which the individual is subject. Individual papers may consider any of Spenser’s works in light of narratology; alternately, papers might reconsider the terms and concepts of narratology (itself most typically deployed in readings of film or prose fiction) through the lens of Spenser’s work.

1. Spenser and Narratology I

Organizer: Melissa Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Melissa Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania

“Spenser and Narratology: On Some Local Points of View in The Faerie Queene” 
J.B. Lethbridge, University of Tübingen 

“Genre and Narratorial Irony in Book VI of the Faerie Queene” 
Caralyn Bialo, Manhattanville College 

“Pity, Politics, and Imaginative Autonomy in The Faerie Queene, Books 5 and 6” 
Richard Lee, University of California, Berkeley 

Daphnaïda, Complaint, and Elegy 
Alan Niles, University of Pennsylvania 

2. Spenser and Narratology II

Organizer: Melissa Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Melissa Sanchez sanchezm@english.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania 

My Story, My Words: Analeptic Self-Representation in The Faerie Queene 
Jonathan Sircy, Charleston Southern University 

Ambivalent Spectacle in The Faerie Queene, Book II 
Jessica Tabak, Brown University 

Spenser’s Narrative and the Perils of Ovidian Wit 
Elizabeth Bellamy, University of Tennessee 

Narrative as Image in The Faerie Queene 
Evan Thomas, Ohio State University

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