IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 102: Cognitive Approaches to Old and Middle English Literature
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Katrina Wilkins, School of English, University of Nottingham |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Marilina Cesario, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
| Paper 102-a | Representation of the Mind as Body in Ælfric and beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 102-b | Legal Language in Langland (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Law |
| Paper 102-c | Relational Deixis and Characterization in Ælfric's Esther (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Abstract | Since the mid-20th century, the so-called 'cognitive turn' has deeply influenced many academic fields. Yet, despite more than 50 years of cognition-focused research, the cognitive perspective is just beginning to emerge as a viable tool for the interpretation of medieval literature. The papers in this session examine Old and Middle English texts from a cognitive perspective, drawing on fields such as psychology, neuroscience, and literary linguistics in their analyses. Such a cognitive approach is doubly useful, offering not only a new perspective from which to understand the cognition of cultures temporally distant from our own, but also evidence of the diachronic development of human cognition. |