IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1617: 'Them's Fightin' Words': Physical and Moral Responses to Virtual Violence
Thursday 13 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Department of French & Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Organiser: | Karen G. Casebier, Department of French & Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Moderator/Chair: | Karen G. Casebier, Department of French & Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Paper 1617-a | Feats of Arms in Jehan de Saintré (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Mentalities |
Paper 1617-b | Loose Tongues and Loose Heads: Some Examples of Dealing with Mockers in the Icelandic Sagas (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Mentalities |
Paper 1617-c | Boccaccio Celebrates, Sercambi Amputates: Revenge on Cheating Wives in Sercambi's Novelliere (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Italian, Sexuality |
Abstract | This session investigates how metaphorical violence escalates into physical and emotional violence. Each paper represents different literary genres and vernacular languages; together they form a coherent portrait of culturally acceptable reactions to violent words or gesures in medieval literaure. One paper examines the tournament in French literature as a festive, ritual display of violence legitimized by both participants and spectators; another focuses on physical violence as a response to mockery in the Icalandic sagas; a third discusses mutilation and murder as a moral reponse to adultery in Italian literature, while another explores female reactions to verbal violence in works of the French Merlin cycle. |