IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1610: Beyond Medievalism: New to Old across Place, Bodies, and Language, I
Thursday 7 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Carl Kears, Department of English, King's College London Emma Nuding, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Carl Kears, Department of English, King's College London |
| Paper 1610-a | 'Caedmon on the shell tip': Reading Old English with Lynette Roberts and Brenda Chamberlain in Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1610-b | Across the Border: Anti-Nationalism and Radical Translation of Early Medieval Texts in Contemporary Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 1610-c | Gazing on Guthlac's Reliques: John Clare, Early Medieval Saints, and Walking the Fenland Landscape (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | These sessions examine movements across and between the medieval, the modern, and the contemporary in literature, by bringing together researchers and practitioners. Reflecting on processes that allow us to cross the temporal and physical boundaries of language, place, material culture, and performance, these papers will discuss poetic practices that collapse distinctions between the 'medieval' and the 'modern'. They will be bidirectional in thinking of the Middle Ages as not just source material, but as live material. How might we submit to or inhabit practices of contemplation we find in medieval 'matter' right now? How is medieval culture changed or transformed when it is reread through modern works? Where might this thinking backwards get us? |