Erratic Letters (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Grammar Rabble
Organizer Name
Damian Fleming
Organizer Affiliation
Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.-Fort Wayne
Presider Name
Chris Piuma
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Paper Title 1
Aurochs and: Overlapping and Unlocking Runic and Greek Characters in Old English Manuscripts
Presenter 1 Name
Rachel A. Burns
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. College London
Paper Title 2
Gibberish or Gobbledygook? Investigating the Dry-Point Runic Marginalia of the Exeter Book Riddles
Presenter 2 Name
Kris Kobold
Presenter 2 Affiliation
York Univ.
Paper Title 3
I Found More Hebrew!
Presenter 3 Name
Damian Fleming
Start Date
15-5-2016 10:30 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 210
Description
Erratic Letters
In geology, an ‘erratic’ stone is one that does not match the stones surrounding it, one that seems to have wandered in from another place. This panel would consider the ‘erratic’ letter—the letter that has failed to be pinned down, failed to maintain a constant materiality, or failed to keep its materiality in a persistent location. This session will seize upon such erratic letters—perhaps the letter transposed or misread by the copyist, perhaps the letter from a foreign alphabet unexpectedly placed in a new context—as a Lucretian ‘swerve’, a moment when the text becomes alive to new interpretive possibilities.
Erratic Letters (A Roundtable)
Bernhard 210
Erratic Letters
In geology, an ‘erratic’ stone is one that does not match the stones surrounding it, one that seems to have wandered in from another place. This panel would consider the ‘erratic’ letter—the letter that has failed to be pinned down, failed to maintain a constant materiality, or failed to keep its materiality in a persistent location. This session will seize upon such erratic letters—perhaps the letter transposed or misread by the copyist, perhaps the letter from a foreign alphabet unexpectedly placed in a new context—as a Lucretian ‘swerve’, a moment when the text becomes alive to new interpretive possibilities.