IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1155: When a Text Becomes a Book: Theoretical Reflections on the Paratextuality of Medieval Literature, II - Thresholds
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Ambizione Project 'Gedächtniskultur im Paratext - Textränder altnordischer Prosahandschriften', Universität Zürich, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
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| Organisers: | Friederike Richter, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin Lukas Rösli, Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich |
| Moderator/Chair: | Diane G. Scott, School of Critical Studies (English Language), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 1155-a | Medieval Paratextuality?: The Bestiary as a Challenge for Genette's Theory of Paratext (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1155-b | Indices of Later Medieval Distinction Collections and Their Relation to the Text (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1155-c | Librarianist Paratexts?: How to Judge a Book by Its Cover (Language: English) Index terms: Bibliography, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Our second session deals with the question of the boundary between the outside and the inside of a text, or according to Genette, the threshold he calls paratext. Starting from a renewed theoretical examination of the paratext, this session will move on to more specific questions about how the paratext makes manuscripts and books accessible to the world. This accessibility to the text is discussed on the basis of collections of medieval codices and on the basis of classification systems in libraries, with material philological questions also being addressed. |