"The Word Made Flesh: the genesis of meaning in the
Renaissance and the Middle Ages"
to be held: September 29-30, 1995 University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario
Topics of discussion include: language and ideology (race,
gender, sex); language and theology, performative language,
language and subjectivity, rhetoric and stylistics
Key note speakers:
- Pauline Head, York University (Old English)
"Configurations of Time through Old English
Literature"
- Rita Copeland, University of Minnesota (Middle English)
"Hermeneutics of the Literal Sense and the Heretical
'Classroom' of the Fifteenth Century"
- John Leonard, University of Western Ontario (17th
Century)
"The Word Made Word: neologisms and puns in Milton
and some contemporaries"
If you would like a full program, a registration form, and/or
further information, please contact Angela Kelly (akelly@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca).
[JM August 25 1995]