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> >Subject: CFP: Mourning and Medieval Poetry (4/15/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05) > >From: "hcm50b" <[log in to unmask]> > >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 yearís >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 >asceticís 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 >ìperformanceî 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 [log in to unmask] by April 15 >(English Department, University of Missouri, Columbia). > > ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Meghan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html