Langland in Time

Sponsoring Organization(s)

International Piers Plowman Society

Organizer Name

Ellen K. Rentz

Organizer Affiliation

Claremont McKenna College

Presider Name

Ellen K. Rentz

Paper Title 1

Langland, Ricoeur, and the Temporal Experience of Teaching and Learning

Presenter 1 Name

Alastair Bennett

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Royal Holloway, Univ. of London

Paper Title 2

Piers Plowman and the Psalms: Langland’s Typological Treatment of Time

Presenter 2 Name

Michael Madrinkian

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Oxford

Paper Title 3

Apocalypse, Teleology, Demand

Presenter 3 Name

Mark Miller

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Chicago

Paper Title 4

Time's Arrow

Presenter 4 Name

D. Vance Smith

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Start Date

8-5-2014 10:00 AM

Session Location

Valley I Shilling Lounge

Description

This session examines how Langland’s poem grapples with questions related to time, timeliness, and temporality. The panel is itself timely, given Carolyn Dinshaw’s recent treatment of time and multiple temporalities in How Soon is Now? (2012). Among the topics the poem’s engagement with a broad range of temporal modes and categories; history and historical time; narrative, allegorical, biblical, and liturgical time; and much else.

Lawrence Warner