IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2315: Climates of Consciousness, II: Ecologies of the Natural and Unnatural
Friday 9 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Oecologies Research Group |
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Organisers: | David Coley, Department of English, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia Kenna L. Olsen, Department of English, Mount Royal University, Alberta |
Moderator/Chair: | Ashby Kinch, Department of English, University of Montana |
Paper 2315-a | Wooden Words from the Flower of Chivalry: Robert of Cisyle's Less than Non-Human Speech (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Philosophy, Rhetoric |
Paper 2315-b | Logics of Landscapes: Finding Truth through Chaos in Chaucer's House of Fame (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Philosophy, Rhetoric |
Paper 2315-c | Reforming the Landscape: Literary Form against Ecology in Wynnere and Wastoure (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Philosophy, Rhetoric |
Abstract | These sessions seek to explore how space and form - ecologies of consciousness - inform, challenge, and perpetuate reading, writing, consideration, and understanding in the medieval and early modern eras. Focusing on the 'climates' of perceptions, philosophies, and cosmologies of the premodern world, they query and explore how immediate and perceived environments created and generated texts and concepts from the medieval and early modern eras that are reliant on aspects of form, both imagined and real. How do the ecological proclivities of premodern cultures and understandings inform our exploration of the past, present, and future? This session, the second of two sponsored by the Oecologies Research Group, explores Middle English literary texts, to understand how material ecologies and landscape informed human understanding of self and society. |