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CMRS Sawyer Seminar, “The Owl and the Nightingale: Philosophy and the Female Voice” With Professor Christopher Cannon (New York University). The Owl and the Nightingale, a Middle English poem of nearly 1800 lines, was probably written in the early thirteenth century. Its Latin title calls the poem an argument (altercacio), but the quarreling birds follow rules of debate used by medieval orators and lawyers. In an agile range of styles, the owl’s unlovely philosophy contends with the nightingale’s blissful song on contentious topics that include lust, love, misogyny and innovations in worship. The absence of a conclusion may reflect doubts about the role of dialectic inside and outside the schools. Download the readings in advance at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/disputation_readings/index.html#owl_nightingale. You will need to contact CMRS for the user name and password to access the files. Call 310-825-1880 or email cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.
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