IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 720: Mortes, Memory, and Retraction
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Karen Cherewatuk, Department of English, St Olaf College, Minnesota |
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Moderator/Chair: | Karen Cherewatuk, Department of English, St Olaf College, Minnesota |
Paper 720-a | Forgetting to Remember in Malory's Morte (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
Paper 720-b | Mourning and Memory in Malory (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 720-c | Tricks of Memory: Malory and the Stock Phrase (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 720-d | Memories of War: Retracting the Dominant Reading of the Alliterative Morte Arthure (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English |
Abstract | This panel explores the way memory functions within and without two Middle English Arthurian texts, Malory's Morte Darthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure. Within the texts memory is related by character and narrator. Outside the texts, the audiences (readers and hearers) employ memory to create meaning from repeated formula (Joyce Coleman), a reshaped plot (Catherine Batt), or the emotions evidenced by the characters (Karen Cherewatuk). Memory of contemporary experience can also lead a generation of scholars to misread the ethos of a medieval work (Fiona Tolhurst and Kevin Whetter). Memory is thus the cross-over process by which authors, audiences, and scholars make meaningful these two mortes. |