IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1219: A Feast for the Senses: Taste, Sound, and Smell in Medieval Dream Visions
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Charlotte Rudman, Department of English, King's College London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Francesca Brooks, Department of English, King's College London |
| Paper 1219-a | 'Owt at the mowthe the fure brast': The Tastes and Smell of the Afterlife in Medieval Visionary Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety |
| Paper 1219-b | Feed Your Fear: Fire and Brimstone in Türlîn's Diu Crône (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1219-c | Can You Hear That Too?: Sound Perception in Medieval Dream Poems (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Abstract | In dream poems and visionary literature, the individual encounters the world of the dream or vision in a disembodied state. However, the settings in which the dreamer or visionary finds themselves are experienced and created through the vivid evocation of the senses: taste, sound, and touch as well as sight. This session will engage with this tension between the state of disembodiment and the use of the senses across a range of dream and visionary texts, examining how it is used to convey anxieties as to the ambiguity of sensory experience and knowledge gained through the senses. |