IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 101: More Than Words: Seeing and Reading Anglo-Saxon Texts
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Thomas A. Bredehoft, Independent Scholar, West Virginia |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Elizabeth M. Tyler, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 101-a | Unthinking the Line in Early English Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Printing History |
| Paper 101-b | Reading Backwards: Retrograde Text and a Retrograde Reading of the Franks Casket (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 101-c | All in the Mind's Eye: Mise-en-Page as Reflection of Crisis (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This panel will rethink the importance of the visual presentation of Old English poetry and Anglo-Saxon texts in their original contexts and in modern media. Covering topics as diverse as the Franks Casket, the visual lineation of Old English poetry, and the problem of manuscript space as reflected in crisis, rather than order/ordinatio, the papers together will outline new ways of seeing that can supplement and address our conventional ways of reading. Each paper will also attempt to concretize the issues by identifying new readings or interpretation that might result from these new (or Anglo-Saxon) ways of seeing. |