IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1633: Textual, Contextual, and Intertextual Crises in Early Medieval England, II
Thursday 4 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Organisers: | Claire Poynton-Smith, School of English, Trinity College Dublin Francisco Rozano-García, School of English & Digital Humanities, University College Cork |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Tom Revell, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1633-a | A Crisis of Confidence: An Intertextual Approach to Genre and Characterisation in the Old English Poem Judith (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English and Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 1633-b | The Crisis of the Corpus: Novel Methodological Approaches to the Old English Corpus and What They Can Tell Us about Bad Behaviour (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English and Mentalities |
| Paper 1633-c | Crisis of Incest, Crisis in Language: The Old English Apollonius of Tyre and the Name of the Father (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Philosophy and Sexuality |
| Abstract | Recent scholarship on Old and Middle English language and literature has pushed for the re-evaluation of perceived or traditional boundaries of periodisation, genre division, and linguistic labels, as we seek to nuance our understanding and appreciation of early medieval England as part of a network of multicultural and multilingual exchange. New developments in theoretical material, critical direction, and digital technology offer novel ways to seek to remedy cruxes of understanding and crises of interpretation in our texts. No longer limited to traditional perceptions and methodologies, scholars of Old and Middle English are taking varied and ingenious approaches to (re)solving issues within and beyond the texts, genres, and periods they study. We know texts were received, read, and circulated in early medieval England within a sophisticated process of linguistic and conceptual adaptation, integration, and recontextualisation: we are keen to appreciate and communicate scholarly approaches to discussing and remedying issues that have perhaps hampered the study of language and literature from these periods. Across two sessions, papers explore cruxes of understanding and interpretation across genres, manuscripts, traditions, and cultures; the application of digital approaches to resolving crises of understanding; and novel approaches to analysis and turning points in our approaches. (2/2) |