CFP: Death in Medieval Romance (9/15/05; Kalamazoo, 5/4/06-5/7/06)
Abstracts are now being accepted for a session at the 2006 International
Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan:
Death in Medieval Romance
Death--whether of the hero, a lover, parent, child, traitor, monster,
or simply foot-soldier (and the list could go on)--is a recurrent and
essential feature of romance narratives. It is, almost without
exception, necessary to plot as well as meaning. Death can imply a
final peace or the serving of justice but it might equally trigger off
revenge and more deaths; death initiates narratives and closes them
and, no matter where we turn, the texts are full of dismembered bodies,