CFP: Session on Performance Studies and Medieval Literature and Folklore at MMLA
St. Louis, Nov. 4-7, 2004
The presentations in this session will draw upon the interdisciplinary
field of performance studies—pioneered by Richard Bauman, Dell Hymes,
Victor Turner, and others—for their examination of works of medieval
literature and folklore, seeing these as inextricable from their aesthetic
and cultural contexts. The authors will bring to bear the findings of
such related areas and subfields of performance studies as ethnography of
speaking, oral tradition, ethnopoetics, and ritual theory in order to
explicate the formally complex, thematically rich, and culturally profound
dynamics of medieval works, dynamics that would otherwise be overlooked if
these works were approached solely as textual objects sequestered by their
margins. Please send abstracts of 150 to 200 words via e-mail (in the
body of the e-mail message or as a Word attachment) no later than April 20
to Heather Maring at hcm50b@mizzou.edu.
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