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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [M-R] CFP: Vernacular Drama: Liturgical Connections and Performative Practice (Kalamazoo, 2008) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:45:05 -0400 From: jill stevenson <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Vernacular Drama: Liturgical Connections and Performative Practice International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo 2008// Sponsors: Donna Alfano Bussell Assistant Professor of English University of Illinois at Springfield Nicole Rice Assistant Professor of English Yale University In this session, we wish to explore the interrelation of vernacular drama and liturgy. The purpose of this session is to provide a forum for examining the ways that the liturgy occupies a place in vernacular performance. Liturgy is often discussed as source for vernacular drama. As suggested by some recent interdisciplinary studies of liturgical practice, however, the stability and formulaic patterns of liturgical texts encode an array of dynamic social and cultural references, and liturgy was itself sometimes a site for institutional and political conflicts. The engagement of vernacular drama with liturgy's variable meanings is therefore a topic that calls for further investigation. Moreover, the relationship between liturgy and vernacular drama is complicated not only by the different linguistic registers and situational discourses of religious and lay audiences, but also by the myriad ways that authors of vernacular drama reframe the spaces, symbols, and temporal rhythms latent in liturgical observance to suit the local performative contingencies of vernacular drama, both civic and otherwise. Vernacular dramas may thus often engage with the liturgy as well using it as source for finding new ways of embodying and modifying questions of devotional and interpretive practice. We would like to invite papers from scholars in a range of disciplines who are interested in the connections between English and continental liturgies and the vernacular dramas of these regions. By doing so, we hope to contribute to the vibrant discussion in the recent scholarship on literature and the liturgy by thinking anew about the ways in which the liturgy and drama can be seen as productively engaged. Please submit 250 word abstract by September 15, 2007 to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> <mailto: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html> http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/ => REED's home page http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/stage.html => our Web guide http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page