CFP: Mourning and Medieval Poetry (4/15/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05)

Mourning and Medieval Poetry
Session at the 2005 M/MLA conference, November 10-13, The Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Concerns about history, memory, and exile (the themes of this year’s M/MLA conference) often arise in medieval elegiac poems. In Old English verse, for instance, the exile figure haunts scenarios ranging from the departure of the soul from the body, the Christian ascetic’s self-imposed solitude, the separation of husband and wife, and the destruction and enslavement of an entire people. Some of these poems could be rooted in an oral tradition that sustained the memory of loss via a traditional exile theme.

Papers in this session may address but will not be limited to questions of genre, prosodic analysis, native tradition, the “performance” of mourning, and comparisons of elegiac poetry with Christian or non-Christian rites for the dead. Please submit a 250-word abstract to Heather Maring at hcm50b_at_mizzou.edu by April 15 (English Department, University of Missouri, Columbia).

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