IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 320: The Limits of Lyric in Medieval France
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Stefano Milonia, Studi Europei, americani e interculturali, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Emma Campbell, Department of French Studies, University of Warwick |
| Paper 320-a | Quoting Lyrics and Subjectivities in the Chastelaine de Vergy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 320-b | Back to the Future: Temporal Boundaries in Mixed-Form Occitan Narratives (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 320-c | What Is the Effect of Borders on the Things They Constrain? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 320-d | Odysseus's Scars: Lyric Interludes and Realism in Medieval France (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music |
| Abstract | The very essence of medieval vernacular poetry lies in its limits: constricted by artificial boundaries of rhyme and metre, a lyric finds its poetic shape. Focusing on Old French and Occitan literature, the papers of this panel analyse the boundaries and interactions between lyric and non-lyric entities. Exploring critical and philosophical approaches, the speakers tackle the problematics of subjectivity, temporality, and genre definition engendered by lyric when contained within a non-lyric context. The particular focus of these investigations is the practice of lyric insertion or quotation in narrative texts, which sews together in the space of a manuscript page different formal, linguistic and chronotropic textual entities, always leaving a trace of the seam, or perhaps a gaping wound. |