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Writing Premodern Biography Tue 19.11. 2013, 16-18 Seminar room Tempo (Kaivokatu 12, Minerva, 2nd floor) Basing his remarks on his forthcoming Chaucer biography, Paul Strohm will consider several problems connected with premodern biography and life-writing. The presentation will follow a "discussion" or seminar format, with occasions for questions and comments. Some of the topics to be considered will be: occasions of medieval life-writing, the problem of premodern sources, the special issues and best focus of "literary biography," the vexed status of apparent life-evidence occurring within a writer's own imaginary works. Professor Strohm will offer illustrative examples from his own writing on Chaucer, and will invite questions and instances arising from the research of other participants. * Professor Paul Strohm is one of the leading Chaucer-researchers. He has worked as a J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at the Columbia University in the City of New York. His most famous publications are The Social Chaucer (Harvard, 1989) and Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of FourteenthCentury Texts (Princeton, 1992). His forthcoming book A Day in the Life of Chaucer will be published next year (Penguin, 2014).