IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 701: Soul and Body Literature
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Antonio Lenzo, Department of English, King's College London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Antonio Lenzo, Department of English, King's College London |
| Paper 701-a | Generating Death: The Poetics of Reproduction in English Soul and Body Literature, 1150-1225 (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Rhetoric |
| Paper 701-b | Napier XXIX (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 113, fols 66r-73r): A 'Soul and Body' Homily and Its Middle English Readers (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | What happens when Soul and Body separate? This panel discusses so-called Soul and Body literature originating between the 11th century and the 14th. This widespread literary trope pits the personified Soul and the Body against one another in debate or confrontation, often around the moment of death. New methodologies, from multi-text manuscript studies to trans theory, warrant a re-examination of this tradition, to ask questions like: does manuscript context allow for or produce specific ways of thinking about the self? How does the trope speak to medieval and contemporary conceptions of interiority and embodiment, or gender performativity? A twin session on the subject, sponsored by Stanford CMEMS, is scheduled for ICMS 2023. |