WHEN A TEXT BECOMES A BOOK
THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON PARATEXTUALITY
Workshop
19. & 20. November 2020
Summary
An online replacement workshop for the strand of the same name at IMC 2020 organized by Friederike Richter & Lukas Rösli in cooperation with the SNSF Ambizione project
“Gedächtniskultur im Paratext – Textränder altnordischer Prosahandschriften”
Thursday, 19th November 2020
| 12:00 | Check in |
| 12:15 | Welcome Friederike Richter & Lukas Rösli |
| Session I New Perspectives – Critical discussions of Genettes’s theory on Paratext Chair: Friederike Richter (Humboldt-Univesität zu Berlin/University of Zurich) |
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| 12:30–13:00 | The Limits of Paratextuality Patrick Andrist (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| 13:00–13:30 | Paratext and ordinatio: navigating the Middle English Polychronico Aino Liira (University of Turku) |
| 13:30–14:00 | Break |
| 14:00–14:30 | Paratext of an Absent Author: About Situations of Mediation… of Medieval Texts Dennis Korus (Universität Passau) |
| Session II Thresholds – A theoretical examination of the Paratext and how it made manuscripts accessible to the world Chair: Diane Scott (University of Glasgow) |
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| 14:30–15:00 |
Medieval Paratextuality? The Bestiary as a Challenge for Genette’s Theory of Paratext |
| 15:00–15:30 | Indices of later medieval distinction collections and their relation to the text Sanna Supponen (University of Helsinki) |
Friday, 20th November 2020
| 8:45 | Check in |
| Session III Editing Manuscripts – The influence of paratext on textreception Chair: Patrick Andrist (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
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| 9:00–9:30 | When a Text Becomes its Paratext: Reshaping Lydgate’s Fall of Princes Diane Scott (University of Glasgow) |
| 9:30–10:00 | Fortunatus and the Consequences of Changing a Book through its Paratexts Gudrun Bamberger (Universität Tübingen) |
| 10:00–10:30 | Trailing Quattrocento Letter Books: production, meaning, readership Simon Smets (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies/University College London) |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| Session IV Close-up Chair: Lukas Rösli (Humboldt-Univesität zu Berlin) |
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| 11:00–11:30 | Border’s images for border’s themes: the untold behind the Medieval miniatures Simonetta Doglione (Università degli Studi di Ferrara) |
| 11:30–12:00 | Icelandic Troy Stories: From Saga to Book Sabine Heidi Walther (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) |
| 12:00–12:30 | Concluding Discussion |
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