IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1023: Romance in Dialogue with Medieval Worlds, I: Genre and Intertextuality

Organiser:	Kirsty A. S. Bolton, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture / Department of English, University of Southampton
Moderator/Chair:	Rebecca Merkelbach, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
Paper 1023-a	'Sir' or 'Saint' Guthlac?: A Pilgrimage in Sir Gowther (Language: English) Emma Nuding, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 1023-b	The Presence of Exempla in Medieval Arthurian Romances: The Case of Sir Gawain (Language: English) Lidón Prades Yerves, Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, Universitat Jaume I Maria José Esteve Ramos, Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English
Paper 1023-c	Pearl and the Otherworlds of Romance (Language: English) Stephen Bull, Department of English University of Bristol Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality
Abstract	This panel examines how romance texts interact with other literary genres of the medieval period, from hagiography to exempla to dream visions. These papers pose questions not only about how such genres influence romance narrative, but how romance extends beyond its fictive remit to create dialogue with other literary genres and, through that dialogue, impact, and shape society.