IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 310: Modern Approaches to Georgian Medieval Writings
Monday 4 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University |
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Organiser: | Bert Beynen, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia |
Moderator/Chair: | Bert Beynen, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia |
Paper 310-a | City as a Text in the Medieval Chivalric Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Other |
Paper 310-b | Computerised Processing of Titlo Diacritic in the Georgian Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies |
Paper 310-c | The Georgian Literary Canon: Development, Models, Directions (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other |
Abstract | Elbakidze notices that, as society changes and the city and its values become more important, chivalric romances do not change but stay based in a feudal society. In Rustaveli’s The Knight in the Panther Skin, however, alongside the traditional 'feudal text' we can see a different variation: the city of the merchant class, Gulansharo, whose values differ from the chivalric ideals. Lobzhanidze discusses problems and solutions for processing diacritics in Georgian manuscripts. Ratiani discusses the Georgian literary canon, established in the Middle Ages, Romanticism and Post-soviet/Postcolonial era, on the basis of national and literary identity, and of geographic location. |