This Way Out: Sidneian Endings and Exits
This session invites attention to techniques and problems of closure in writings produced or inspired by the authors of the Sidney Circle, broadly construed. In addition to the obvious exit of death, we welcome papers that consider the Sidneian sense (or nonsense) of an ending as it relates to poetics, narrative, biography, correspondence, and editorial practice.
The Sidneys and the Sister Arts
This session seeks to recover the
relationship of Sidneian texts to the visual and musical cultures within
which they originated and circulated. How did emergent discourses of
visual and musical “making” influence
Sidneian poetics? What is the role of art and music within the works
themselves? What is the Sidney legacy to art, book illustration, music,
and musical theater? We invite papers on all authors and texts inspired
by the literary legacy of Philip and Mary
Sidney and welcome a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives,
Submission deadline: September 15, 2016
Participant Information Form (due by September 15): https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u434/2016/medieval-pif-2017.pdf
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