IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1620: Adaptation and Crisis: Presences and Absences of the Medieval, II
Thursday 4 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Organiser: | Amber Dunai, Department of Humanities, Texas A&M University, Central Texas |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Noah Peterson, Department of English, Texas A&M University, College Station |
| Paper 1620-a | 'In seming of scourging': Witnessing, Testament, and the Subversive Presence of the Harrowing in The Scarlet Gospels (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Religious Life and Sexuality |
| Paper 1620-b | From Absence to Adaptation: Finding Gawain in Alex Garland's Men (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality and Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1620-c | 'There's no right...there's only the power of [the spectator]': Following the Point of the Cinematic Index into a Process of Ongoing Adaptation (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Philosophy and Social History |
| Abstract | Presences of the medieval in postmedieval contexts bring with them moments of peril, instability, and crisis. Presences of the medieval are, after all, suggestive of potential absences that might result from failure to adapt to ever-changing contexts, concerns, and audiences. Nonetheless, these moments also offer unique opportunities for investigation into adaptation and reception of the medieval, and adaptation and reception themselves. The papers in these sessions take up such opportunities from various vantage points. This session focuses on presences and absences of the medieval that challenge perceptions and definitions of both the medieval and adaptation more broadly. It includes papers exploring adaptation of the medieval as subversion, how absences of the medieval in film become compelling presences, and how the medieval in film can be used to describe an understanding of the cinematic index linked to an ongoing process of adaptation. |