Medieval Poetics

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Tiffany Beechy

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

Presider Name

Tiffany Beechy

Paper Title 1

Composing Destruction: Alcuin's Opus geminatum on Lindisfarne

Presenter 1 Name

Marcos Garcia

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Berkeley

Paper Title 2

"An ydel man thow semest": Representation, the Multilingual, and the Overheard in Langland’s Piers Plowman

Presenter 2 Name

Katharine Jager

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Houston-Downtown

Paper Title 3

Meter, Measure, and Interpretability: A Morphology of Medieval Poetics

Presenter 3 Name

Jeremy Scott Ecke

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Arkansas-Little Rock

Start Date

9-5-2013 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 2345

Description

This session comprises investigations involving form, from poetic devices to generic distinctions to linguistic structure and meter. The session could be characterized broadly as New Formalist in its conception.

Tiffany Beechy