Contemporary Medieval Poetry I: Remaking Genre
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, King's College London
Organizer Name
Josh Davies; Clare A. Lees
Organizer Affiliation
King's College London; King's College London
Presider Name
Clare A. Lees
Paper Title 1
The Poetics of Rot: Medieval Appropriation, Sanctity, and the Grotesque in John Fuller's Flying to Nowhere
Presenter 1 Name
Benjamin Utter
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Ouachita Baptist Univ.
Paper Title 2
Contemporary Medieval Poetry as Life Writing: Jay Bernard's The Red and Yellow Nothing
Presenter 2 Name
Josh Davies
Paper Title 3
Old English, Rap, and African-American Vernacular English
Presenter 3 Name
Donna Beth Ellard
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Denver
Start Date
11-5-2018 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1355
Description
The two sessions on Contemporary Medieval Poetry will examine late-twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poetic reworkings of medieval texts. Over the past few years critical attention has focussed on the influence medieval texts have exerted on modern writers. This work has broken important new ground in medieval studies but has tended to focus on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and/or concentrate on the work of a small group of canonical, Anglophone, male authors such as Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, WH Auden, Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill. Writers with later or different publication histories have as yet largely escaped sustained attention. The papers presented in these sessions will acknowledge the breadth and diversity of modern and postmodern poetic responses to and re-workings of medieval literature, and interrogate what this poetry can tell us about the cultural meanings of the Middle Ages in our contemporary moment.
Josh Davies
Contemporary Medieval Poetry I: Remaking Genre
Schneider 1355
The two sessions on Contemporary Medieval Poetry will examine late-twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poetic reworkings of medieval texts. Over the past few years critical attention has focussed on the influence medieval texts have exerted on modern writers. This work has broken important new ground in medieval studies but has tended to focus on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and/or concentrate on the work of a small group of canonical, Anglophone, male authors such as Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, WH Auden, Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill. Writers with later or different publication histories have as yet largely escaped sustained attention. The papers presented in these sessions will acknowledge the breadth and diversity of modern and postmodern poetic responses to and re-workings of medieval literature, and interrogate what this poetry can tell us about the cultural meanings of the Middle Ages in our contemporary moment.
Josh Davies