IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1118: The Idealization of Youth and the Desire for Old Age
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Connie L. Scarborough, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Cincinnati |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Connie L. Scarborough, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Cincinnati |
| Paper 1118-a | From Perceval to Potter: Sheltered Youth Seeking Answers (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Spanish and Portuguese |
| Paper 1118-b | Bertran de Born's Defining Ballad of Old and Young (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Spanish and Portuguese |
| Paper 1118-c | Celestina: The Power of Old Age (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Spanish and Portuguese |
| Abstract | This panel will examine three very different types of texts in which (1) youth is the ideal state and, indeed, survival of others depends on the prowess of youth, (2) the utter and definitive break between youth and old age as distinct categories rather than as chronological continuum, and (3) old age as as advantageous state which denotes experience and confers authority. The works examined are also from three distinct literary traditions: the Arthurian cycle, the troubadour poetry of southern France, and a fifteenth-century Spanish novel in dialogue. |