Knights Errant and Private Dicks: From Romance to Noir

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Mary C. Flannery

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. de Lausanne

Presider Name

Mary C. Flannery

Paper Title 1

Medieval Noir

Presenter 1 Name

John M. Ganim

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Riverside

Paper Title 2

Gawain and Percival, Back to the (Medieval) Future

Presenter 2 Name

Matthew Vernon

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Davis

Paper Title 3

Response

Presenter 3 Name

Richard Utz

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Georgia Institute of Technology

Start Date

15-5-2016 8:30 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

The aim of this session is both to explore the parallels and interplay between romance and noir and to consider the extent to which we might read literary and filmic noir as a kind of medievalism.

Mary C. Flannery