"Lesser" English Arthuriana
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Usha Vishnuvajjala
Organizer Affiliation
American Univ.
Presider Name
Kristin Bovaird-Abbo
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Northern Colorado
Paper Title 1
"Muse on My Mirrour": Precarious Reflections and Reform in The Awntyrs off Arthure
Presenter 1 Name
William Biel
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Connecticut
Paper Title 2
The Redemption of the Arthurian Queen: How the Depiction of Guinevere as a Nun in British Art and Literature of the Nineteenth Century Complicates our Understanding of British Medievalism and Its Intersection with Discourses of Gender
Presenter 2 Name
Ellie Crookes
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Macquarie Univ.
Paper Title 3
"She was recouered of that that she was defoylyd": Recuperating Dame Ragnell's Lute
Presenter 3 Name
Crystal N. Beamer
Presenter 3 Affiliation
McMaster Univ.
Paper Title 4
Heroism Both Lesser and Greater: De-Romanticizing Aristocracy in "Sir Percyvell of Gales"
Presenter 4 Name
Randy Schiff
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. at Buffalo
Start Date
10-5-2018 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1350
Description
Studies of Arthurian literature in English tend to focus on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory’s Morte Darthur, and the Alliterative Morte Darthur in Middle English, and on works by Tennyson, Twain, and T.H. White in modern English. This panel seeks papers on the “lesser,” or lesser-studied, Arthurian texts of the Middle English period, such as the anonymous romances Ywain and Gawain and Sir Perceval of Galles and the Gawain romances, as well as less-studied Arthurian texts in Early Modern and Modern English. Some of these texts are less well-studied because they are considered “bad” literature, and some for other reasons, like their difficult dialects. How might a renewed discussion of such texts’ place in our research and teaching contribute to a deeper understanding of the aesthetic diversity of the Arthurian canon and the Middle Ages more generally? How might they help us to re-think and re-frame the “canonical” Arthurian texts on which we often focus?
Usha Vishnuvajjala
"Lesser" English Arthuriana
Schneider 1350
Studies of Arthurian literature in English tend to focus on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory’s Morte Darthur, and the Alliterative Morte Darthur in Middle English, and on works by Tennyson, Twain, and T.H. White in modern English. This panel seeks papers on the “lesser,” or lesser-studied, Arthurian texts of the Middle English period, such as the anonymous romances Ywain and Gawain and Sir Perceval of Galles and the Gawain romances, as well as less-studied Arthurian texts in Early Modern and Modern English. Some of these texts are less well-studied because they are considered “bad” literature, and some for other reasons, like their difficult dialects. How might a renewed discussion of such texts’ place in our research and teaching contribute to a deeper understanding of the aesthetic diversity of the Arthurian canon and the Middle Ages more generally? How might they help us to re-think and re-frame the “canonical” Arthurian texts on which we often focus?
Usha Vishnuvajjala