IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 313: Kind and Unkind Feelings: Conceptual, Thematic, and Allegorical
Monday 10 July 2006, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Francis K. H. So, Center for Languages and Culture, Kaohsiung Medical University / Department of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Sun Yat-Sen University / Wenzao Ursuline College, Taiwan |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Charles Burnett, Warburg Institute, University of London |
| Paper 313-a | Alexander vs. Darius: Knightly Wrath and Mercy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Mentalities, Military History |
| Paper 313-b | Politics of Betrayal: Gender, Emotion, and Punishment in Bisclavret and A Woman Kilde with Kindnesse (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 313-c | Signs of Sensuality and Spirituality: The Poetics of Emotion in Julian of Norwich's Revelations (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Mentalities, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session includes three papers that seperately deal with the Middle English romance Kyng Alisaunder, Marie de France's Bisclavret, Heywood's A woman Kilde with Kindnesse, and Julian of Norwich's Revelations. The first paper discusses the conceptual patterns of Alexander's emotional fits, the second the repressed passion focusing on the politics of betrayal and gender relations, and the third dwells on signs of sensuality leading to signs of spirituality. Organised by academics from Taiwan, it is hoped that this session will help to create links with their Western counterparts through exposure at the Congress |