Affective Transformations
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Harvard English Dept. Medieval Colloquium
Organizer Name
Erica Weaver
Organizer Affiliation
Harvard Univ.
Presider Name
Erica Weaver
Paper Title 1
Elegiac Bubbles: Ecstatic Memory in Alcuin's Poetry
Presenter 1 Name
Peter Buchanan
Presenter 1 Affiliation
New Mexico Highlands Univ.
Paper Title 2
Not a Wonder, Not Yet a Sign: Stones and Bones in the Old English Seven Sleepers
Presenter 2 Name
Danielle Ruether-Wu
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Cornell Univ.
Paper Title 3
Afraid for That Fair Sight: Sympathetic Vision in The Dream of the Rood
Presenter 3 Name
Jennifer Lorden
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Paper Title 4
On the Hegelian Spirit of Anglo-Saxon Literature: Why Becoming Matters
Presenter 4 Name
Patricia Dailey
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Start Date
13-5-2017 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 2345
Description
This panel focuses on the idea of affective transformation in the largest sense of the term: conversion, pedagogy, metamorphosis, waning of passions, spiritual awakening, reading, etc. What can we learn from how Old English and Anglo-Latin literatures represent, incite, model, or even demean affective alteration? How might transformation be structured through a poem (in form or grammar)? How, for example, might change be spoken of and manifest in a saint’s life (visually, behaviorally, ethically) and what might this suggest about the role of affect? What strategies do texts use for locating and engaging affective or emotional involvement — and what kind of involvement is even desirable? Moreover, what happens when texts resist our emotional categories, or when they favor understatement over expression? In short, submissions are welcome to locate and question the role of “affective transformation” in the broadest sense possible.
Nota bene: This is a blind review panel. Patricia Dailey has agreed to present a paper, but a committee will select the other papers by a process of double blind review of the submitted abstracts. Abstracts from graduate students and junior scholars are especially encouraged.
Erica Weaver
Affective Transformations
Schneider 2345
This panel focuses on the idea of affective transformation in the largest sense of the term: conversion, pedagogy, metamorphosis, waning of passions, spiritual awakening, reading, etc. What can we learn from how Old English and Anglo-Latin literatures represent, incite, model, or even demean affective alteration? How might transformation be structured through a poem (in form or grammar)? How, for example, might change be spoken of and manifest in a saint’s life (visually, behaviorally, ethically) and what might this suggest about the role of affect? What strategies do texts use for locating and engaging affective or emotional involvement — and what kind of involvement is even desirable? Moreover, what happens when texts resist our emotional categories, or when they favor understatement over expression? In short, submissions are welcome to locate and question the role of “affective transformation” in the broadest sense possible.
Nota bene: This is a blind review panel. Patricia Dailey has agreed to present a paper, but a committee will select the other papers by a process of double blind review of the submitted abstracts. Abstracts from graduate students and junior scholars are especially encouraged.
Erica Weaver