How We Read I: Medieval Literature
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Academy of America
Organizer Name
Jane Chance
Organizer Affiliation
Rice Univ.
Presider Name
Laurie A. Finke
Presider Affiliation
Kenyon College
Paper Title 1
Dante's Bewildered Dreamer and the Abandoned Children of Limbo
Presenter 1 Name
Gwenyth Hood
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Marshall Univ.
Paper Title 2
Where's the Bob? Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the MS Cotton Nero A.x
Presenter 2 Name
Julie Nelson Couch
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Texas Tech Univ.
Paper Title 3
The Clothes Make the Man: Hawkin and the Politics of Costume
Presenter 3 Name
John Slefinger
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Ohio State Univ.
Paper Title 4
Reading Morgan le Fay's Poisoned Mantle
Presenter 4 Name
Laura F. Hodges
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Start Date
13-5-2016 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 158
Description
Papers on How We Read Literature, specifically, 14th-15th c. Dante, Arthurian literature (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Morte Darthur), and Piers Plowman. Focus is on children in Limbo, manuscript study, and costume. reading involves how the author/persona reads his sources, how the medieval reader would have read the poem in manuscript, and how characters in an allegory read other characters on the basis of how they're dressed.
How We Read I: Medieval Literature
Bernhard 158
Papers on How We Read Literature, specifically, 14th-15th c. Dante, Arthurian literature (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Morte Darthur), and Piers Plowman. Focus is on children in Limbo, manuscript study, and costume. reading involves how the author/persona reads his sources, how the medieval reader would have read the poem in manuscript, and how characters in an allegory read other characters on the basis of how they're dressed.