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IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1246: Debates in Medieval French Literature, I: Discourse, Compilation, Circulation

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45

Organisers:Johannes Junge Ruhland, Department of French & Italian, Stanford University
S. C. Kaplan, Center for Languages & Intercultural Communication, Rice University, Texas
Moderator/Chair:Johannes Junge Ruhland, Department of French & Italian, Stanford University
Paper 1246-aFragmented Debates: Reconciling the Incomplete and the Fragmentary in 15th-Century French Literary Culture
(Language: English)
Emma Cayley, Department of Modern Languages, University of Exeter
Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Social History
Paper 1246-bShades of the Self: Inner Debate in Jean Renart's Lai de l'Ombre
(Language: English)
Tamara Bentley Caudill, Department of Languages, Literatures & Culture, Jacksonville University, Florida
Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Social History
Paper 1246-cGoing Round in Circles: Circulation of Texts as Debate in the Mid-15th Century
(Language: English)
S. C. Kaplan, Center for Languages & Intercultural Communication, Rice University, Texas
Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

This is one of two sessions that will explore the theme of Networks and Entanglements in relation to late-medieval debate literature in French. Papers in the first panel consider debate literature through understudied materials and approach known materials with new methodologies. They examine the process of compilation that may create debates within individual manuscripts, analyse how debates can give voice to social groups by deploying a given discourse, and assess the people and milieus between which debate literature circulated.