CFP: (dis)junctions: Anglo-Saxon Studies (grad) (2/14/03; 4/11/03-4/12/03)

This call for papers is for a proposed panel on
Anglo-Saxon studies at Disjunctions, the University of
California Riverside's 10th annual graduate conference
to be held April 11-12, 2003.

The Anglo-Saxon era continues to be a rich area of
inquiry. Many questions invite further investigation,
and an Anglo-Saxon studies panel is open to proposals
that deal with questions concerning the Anglo-Saxon
era. Contributors are invited to submit papers on any
aspect of that era, including (but not limited to) the
following topics:

- Date of composition of texts
- The literary language and poetic diction
- Beowulf: sources, analogues, language, structure,
meter
- Oral-formulaic theory
- Elegiac and heroic poetry
- Meter: Sievers' five metrical types, alternate
systems of scansion, metrical principles
- Linguistic issues: morphology, syntax, phonology
- History and historiography: the Anglo-Saxon
heptarchy, the Viking assault, the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle
- Artistic artifacts: the Book of Kells, the Utrecht
Psalter, the Lindisfarne Gospels
- Manuscript issues: palaeography, codicology
- Historical figures: the Venerable Bede, King Alfred,
Alcuin, and others

Individual abstracts and abstracts for pre-formed
panels of three presenters should be e-mailed to
disjunctions_at_hotmail.com or to jeffty5_at_yahoo.com
by February 14, 2003. Please indicate your name and
conference panel in the e-mail subject line. No
attachments, please. Submissions should be no longer
than 250 words for individual proposals and 750 words
for panel proposals.

Applications sent by postal mail should be addressed
to:
Disjunctions: Morphing the Written Word
English Department - 40
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521-0323

For more information on the conference, please visit
http://www.english.ucr.edu/gsea/index1.htm

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