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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
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-aSecrets Unveiled: Shared and Certain Knowledge - (Emotional) Decisions in Sendebar
(Language: English)
Ulrike Becker, Institut VII: Romanistik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese
Paper 1526-bRoyal Bedroom Secrets in The Book of Syntipas / Sindbad / Sendebar / Seven Sages
(Language: English)
Emilie van Opstall, Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies & Archaeology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 1526-cQueer Taboos?: Senescalcus, Balneator, and Attitudes towards Sodomy
(Language: English)
Rory Critten, Institut für Englische Sprachen und Literaturen, Universität Bern
Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan
Paper 1526-dMoralising the Gatekeeper: The Jackal's Handling of Secrets in the Byzantine Stephanites kai Ichnelates and the Translators' Opinions
(Language: English)
Lilli Hölzlhammer, 'Retracing Connections' Project, Uppsala universitet
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?