IMC 2013: Sessions

Session 1312: The Pleasures of Medievalism

Sponsor:	Atlantic Medievalist Association
Organiser:	Cory James Rushton, Department of English, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
Moderator/Chair:	Robert A. Rouse, Department of English, University of British Columbia
Paper 1312-a	Medievalism and the Pleasures of Patriarchy (Language: English) Amy S. Kaufman, Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Sexuality
Paper 1312-b	A Geek's Guide to Arthurian Myth: The Pleasure of Scientific Explanation in Attanasio's The Dragon and the Unicorn (Language: English) Michele Braun, Department of English, Mount Royal University, Alberta Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Science
Paper 1312-c	Discovering the True Cross: The Pleasure of Archaeology in Evelyn Waugh's Helena (Language: English) Cory James Rushton, Department of English, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract	This session will contain three papers on the peculiar pleasures of the Middle Ages for modernity: in the pleasure of intertextuality, of religious discovery or rediscovery, of violent sexuality, and our apparent resistance to it.