Call for Papers for the 37th (2002) International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2-5 May 2002.
Please send abstracts of 250 words by September 15, 2001, on the topic of
"Death and the Performance of Grief in Early Drama."
Email: Goodlandk@aol.com
Regular mail: 24 Croft Place
Staten Island, NY 10314
Description:
This session seeks to encourage and integrate three recent trends in the
field of early drama: the investigation of how performative genres embody
cultural meaning; the examination of how the performance of emotion both
constructs and subverts gender identities; and the study of death and
mourning in the late Middle Ages. The communal, collaborative nature of
early drama makes it an especially fertile field for examining the
intersection of ritual, popular custom, gender, and emotion. This
exploration opens windows into late-medieval constructions of death,
mourning, and subjectivity. Because the Reformation significantly altered
the geography of death and its attendant emotions, the session also seeks to
contribute to an understanding of this cultural shift while also suggesting
further ways to theorize about historical change.
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