tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post5176451481266174118..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Hybridity as the conjunction of the disparate, not the synthesisCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-72401663284091527862007-04-27T13:20:00.000-04:002007-04-27T13:20:00.000-04:00Saw a marvelous dynamic paper last night by Jocely...Saw a marvelous dynamic paper last night by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (who incarnates marvel and dynamism) that suggested a number of routes for bridging the scholarly divide between Old English works and pre-Conquest Women Nobles/Royalty and Anglo-Norman works and post-Conquest &c. Also got to meet Mary Ramsey, co-editor (with EJ) of the exciting <I>Postmodern Beowulf.</I><BR/><BR/>She showed us a slide of a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle whose final leaves contain a version of the Brut, in Anglo-Norman, in the margins (handout's at home, otherwise I could give you the ms info). A perfect illustration of this non-synthetic conjunction of cultural traditions because, as JWB observed: why write the Brut in the margins? Why not just find a blank page and write it there instead? Because, she suggested, someone's trying to come to terms with the different histories, not setting out one as true and one as untrue, but rather just together what, in fact, can't, because of the contradictions in narrative, go together.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.com