2012 Tristan Sessions: Call for Proposals

[James L. Zychowicz]

Hello:

I am please to announce that we have two sponsored sessions at the 2012 Medieval Congress:

I. Tristan Manuscripts and Early Prints: Surveying the Resources Available in the Twenty-First Century

The manuscript and early print sources for the Tristan story bear reavaluation for what they offer to

modern scholars across the national traditions in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian,

and other cultures. In recent years multiple approaches to the complex transmission of national

traditions of Tristan have been put forth, and this session invites contributions that will assess the

ongoing debate on this topic in the dissemination of the Tristan story in prose, verse, drama, and lyric.

II. Love and Sin: Reassessing Judgments on Tristan and Isolde

The moralizing assignment by Dante to put Tristan and Isolde in the second rung of hell stands in

contrast to modern interpretations of their transcendent love. This session is a forum to examine this

dichotomy and arrive at individual interpretations of the dilemma in both literary and cultural history.

For details about the Congress, please consult the site: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html

Please send submissions to:
James L. Zychowicz
454 W. Roslyn Pl. Unit 1W
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: 773-341-6335
JZych...@aol.com

Please forward this message to your colleagues and students, and contact me with any questions.
We look forward to your excellent proposals for papers on these topics.

With all good wishes,

James L. Zychowicz
JZych...@aol.com

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[Grimbert, Joan T]

Dear Colleagues,

When I was at the IAS congress in Bristol last week, I told Jane Taylor about the first of our sessions, and she asked if we might want a paper on Jean Maugin's Tristan. Jane is a formidable scholar, one of the first to have championed later medieval romance, and I think it would be great if we could assure her that we're interested. At the congress, she also gave a paper that might be of even more interest to the organizers of this session. It was on "Worlds in Competition: Arthurian Romance in the Sixteenth Century" and she talked about Lancelot and Tristan romances and various editions of Arthurian romance in the 1530s. She focused particularly on how interest in Arthurian romance seemed suddenly to wane at around the mid-16th century. She would be willing to reprise the paper, and we could ask her to concentrate on the Tristans, I suppose. How should I advise her?

Best,
Joan
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[James L. Zychowicz]

Dear Joan,

Thank you for your message and support of our sessions. We welcome the proposal from Jane Taylor and defer to the guidelines for submitting proposals along with the  parameters of the session. Please feel to share the latter with Jane, and let her know that I would be glad to address any questions she may have along the way. As you know the deadlines and other details are at the Congress website, and we definitely adhere to the Congress selection process for submitting to them any proposals that might not fit our particular sessions.

Best,

Jim

James L. Zychowicz
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Subject: 2012 Tristan Sessions: Call for Proposals

Hello:

I am pleased to announce that we have two sponsored sessions at the 2012 Medieval 
Congress:

I. Tristan Manuscripts and Early Prints: Surveying the Resources Available in 
the Twenty-First Century
The manuscript and early print sources for the Tristan story bear reavaluation 
for what they offer to
modern scholars across the national traditions in German, French, Italian, 
Spanish, Scandinavian,
and other cultures. In recent years multiple approaches to the complex 
transmission of national
traditions of Tristan have been put forth, and this session invites 
contributions that will assess the
ongoing debate on this topic in the dissemination of the Tristan story in prose, 
verse, drama, and lyric.

II. Love and Sin: Reassessing Judgments on Tristan and Isolde
The moralizing assignment by Dante to put Tristan and Isolde in the second rung 
of hell stands in
contrast to modern interpretations of their transcendent love. This session is a 
forum to examine this
dichotomy and arrive at individual interpretations of the dilemma in both 
literary and cultural history.

For details about the Congress, please consult the site: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html