IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1526: Pan-Continental Story Collections in a Comparative Perspective, I: Secrets and Suspicion
Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Rory Critten, Institut für Englische Sprachen und Literaturen, Universität Bern |
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Moderator/Chairs: | Rory Critten, Institut für Englische Sprachen und Literaturen, Universität Bern Rachel Peled Cuartas, Department of Spanish & Latin American Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Paper 1526-a | Secrets Unveiled: Shared and Certain Knowledge - (Emotional) Decisions in Sendebar (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese |
Paper 1526-b | Royal Bedroom Secrets in The Book of Syntipas / Sindbad / Sendebar / Seven Sages (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1526-c | Queer Taboos?: Senescalcus, Balneator, and Attitudes towards Sodomy (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
Paper 1526-d | Moralising the Gatekeeper: The Jackal's Handling of Secrets in the Byzantine Stephanites kai Ichnelates and the Translators' Opinions (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Greek |
Abstract | In keeping with this conference's interest in networks and entanglements, these papers reconsider the relationships between texts belonging to the Book of Sindibad / Sendebar and Seven Sages of Rome traditions. Rather than tracing lines of influence from the former to the latter, we propose a comparative approach that elucidates the generative potential of their story-matter across cultural contexts. Our focus falls on the thematics of secrets and suspicion: what are the links between secrecy, suspicion, and storytelling? How do our texts differ in their handling of cultural taboos? What do our texts hide, and what do they reveal? |