IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 110: Border Crossing in Medieval Short Narratives, I: Body
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Brevitas - Gesellschaft zur Erforschung vormoderner Kleinepik |
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Organiser: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
Moderator/Chair: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
Paper 110-a | Crossing the Border: The Grotesque Body in Middle High German Short Epics (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - German, Sexuality |
Paper 110-b | Fragmentations and the Desire of the Text: Bodily Boundary Crossings in Medieval Short Epic Tales (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - German, Sexuality |
Paper 110-c | Narratives of Border Crossings in Boccaccio's Decamerone (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Italian |
Abstract | It seems to be the destiny of borders in medieval short narratives to be crossed, demolished, and reconstructed. The effect is, after all, that one can see the function and disfunction of borders. The borderlines of medieval short narratives are very branchy: They seperate men and God, man and woman, social classes, good and bad behaviour, now and then, form and meaning and so on. The only thing in common is that the seperated aspects are compressed tightly, so that they are oscillating between antagonism and conglomeration. In our first session the body will be in focus of border crossing. |