Sidneian Poetics: Making Sense

Sponsoring Organization(s)

International Sidney Society

Organizer Name

Nandra Perry

Organizer Affiliation

Texas A&M Univ.

Presider Name

Andrew Strycharski

Presider Affiliation

Florida International Univ.

Paper Title 1

Still in Thought with Thee I Go: Epistemology and Consciousness in the Sidney Psalms

Presenter 1 Name

Nancy Simpson-Younger

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Pacific Lutheran Univ.

Paper Title 2

Piercing the Sight of the Soul: Aristotle, Sidney, and the Experience of Reading

Presenter 2 Name

Miriam Diller

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Rutgers Univ.

Paper Title 3

Pregnant with Generality: Reconceiving Sidneian Poetics

Presenter 3 Name

Valerie Allen

Presenter 3 Affiliation

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Start Date

14-5-2016 1:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 1060

Description

This conference session invites attention to the role of bodies and bodily sensation in Sidneian poetics, ethics, and epistemologies. How do Philip and Mary Sidney and/or their literary admirers and imitators imagine the pleasures, problems, and possibilities of embodiment: literal and metaphorical, individual and corporate? How reliably do bodies function in their works as instruments of knowledge; and by extension, as instantiations and/or interrogations of political, religious, and intellectual authority? Do some bodies matter more than others? If so, how and why? This session is designed foster conversation on these questions from multiple disciplinary perspectives, including (but not limited to) studies of gender, sexuality, book history, race, religion, and the history of science.

Nandra L. Perry