IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1008: Elegiac Comedy
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Medieval Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
|---|---|
| Organiser: | John B. Dillon, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Moderator/Chair: | Venetia Bridges, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1008-a | The Image of Servant in 12th-Century Latin Comedy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
| Paper 1008-b | 'Best of' Comedy, Elegy, and Parody: The poem Pamphilus, Gliscerium et Birria (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1008-c | Man and Beast in the De Paulino et Polla of Richard of Venosa (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin, Law |
| Abstract | This session focuses on social, cultural, and artistic aspects of elegiac comedy, the umbrella term for a body of mostly 12th- or 13th-century humorous dramatic or quasi-dramatic texts composed in elegiac distichs. Klementyna Glińska investigates across a number of these texts the comic functions of characters identified as a servant, looking as well at other low-status figures in medieval literature. Kurt Smolak examines the erotic subject of Pamphilus, Gliscerium et Birria in light of thematic parallels in spiritual as well as in courtly or chivalric literature and finds in its banquet scene parodic references to the Last Supper. John Dillon discusses human-animal interactions in Richard of Venosa's De Paulino et Polla chiefly as these contribute to the ongoing degradation in status of the protagonist (a local judge) within a larger matrix of crown and town. |