IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1232: Borders, Border-Crossings, and the Works of the Pearl-Poet
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | International Pearl-Poet Society |
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Organiser: | Jane Beal, Department of English, University of La Verne, California |
Moderator/Chair: | Jane Beal, Department of English, University of La Verne, California |
Paper 1232-a | Crossing the Border: Moving between the Worlds of History and Magic (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Women's Studies |
Paper 1232-b | Rhetorical and Poetic Borderlines in the Work of the Pearl-Poet (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Rhetoric |
Paper 1232-c | Navigating the Earthly Boundaries 'betwene bus and blysse' (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English |
Abstract | Presenters will examine the theme of borders and border-crossings in the works of the Pearl-Poet, including Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with reference to St. Erkenwald. Specifically, they will consider the borders between magic and history, rhetoric and poetry, and mortal weakness and heavenly virtue. Issues of self-referentiality, memory, and gender, as well as the depiction of natural environments in the poems, will also be examined in relation to borders and border-crossings in the exquisite works of this much admired but always challenging 14th-century, Middle English poet. |