CALL FOR PAPERS
The Harvard Medieval Doctoral Colloquium is sponsoring a session at the
39th International
Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (6-9 May 2004),
entitled:
"Displacing Language: the Sounds, Silences, and Spaces of the Medieval
Text"
Studies such as Michael Camille's "Image on the Edge: The Margins of
Medieval Art," have foregrounded the non-linguistic periphery of the
medieval page, and have studied the polemic between language
and image that occurs on textual side-lines. Our panel wishes to open
this discussion up to papers which explore how medieval writing
uses non-linguistic or counter-linguistic elements within the primary
body of the text. The Chanson de Roland's mysterious "AOI" might
be an example of this-- or Margery of Kempe's unstoppable tears.
All papers welcome that explore the ways in which the medieval text
promotes or acknowledges a displacement of language. Topics might
include: narrative pauses, embedded songs or musical sounds, riddles,
scribal errors,
inexplicable tears, animal noises, languageless characters, or
punctuation.
Topics might also include ways in which post-medieval readers have
discovered and engaged the silences, noises, or language-gaps of
the medieval text.
Please send 300 word abstracts (no attachments, please) and contact
information to Ziva Mann at zmann@fas.harvard.edu.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15th.
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