IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1710: Beyond Medievalism: New to Old across Place, Bodies, and Language, III
Thursday 7 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Francesca Brooks, Department of English, King's College London Emma Nuding, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Emma Nuding, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 1710-a | Contemporary Poetry Does Scholarship: Fringe or more 'Authentic' Old English Studies? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1710-b | Forms of Unknowing: Contemplative Medievalism (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1710-c | Into the Witnessing Cosmos of Unbound Time: The Medievalisms of Derek Jarman and Robert Glück (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Sexuality |
| 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? |