Ending
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Organizer Name
Emma Lipton
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Presider Name
Emma Lipton
Paper Title 1
"This book thus to han endid had Y thoght": The Ends of Thomas Hoccleve’s Poetry
Presenter 1 Name
Travis Neel
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Ohio State Univ.
Paper Title 2
The End of Bodies and/as Texts
Presenter 2 Name
Wendy A. Matlock
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Kansas State Univ.
Paper Title 3
Lamenting the End of Time: Higden and the Loss of Temporal Possibility
Presenter 3 Name
Christopher Pugh
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Start Date
12-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1320
Description
The broad subject of “ending" engages interactions between forms of medieval writing and between modern disciplinary approaches. Papers could address such topics as the culture of death, eschatological endings, temporal endings, narrative endings, and their interactions. Although reading from the end is often associated with a method of medieval exegetical interpretation that promises coherence, the gerund “ending” also invokes a performative sense in which ending is an ongoing action or process. This session builds on a recent scholarly focus on form and history, aesthetics and practice.
Emma Lipton
Ending
Schneider 1320
The broad subject of “ending" engages interactions between forms of medieval writing and between modern disciplinary approaches. Papers could address such topics as the culture of death, eschatological endings, temporal endings, narrative endings, and their interactions. Although reading from the end is often associated with a method of medieval exegetical interpretation that promises coherence, the gerund “ending” also invokes a performative sense in which ending is an ongoing action or process. This session builds on a recent scholarly focus on form and history, aesthetics and practice.
Emma Lipton