tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post7741799869615193256..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: More CFPs -- Columbia Medieval Guild and KalamazooCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-77837422711855263522009-08-16T10:08:03.468-04:002009-08-16T10:08:03.468-04:00The Bakhtin is interesting, since, from what I kno...The Bakhtin is interesting, since, from what I know of him (only through Rabelais and His World), MB seems to need a strawman closed off past (or vice versa) into order to advance his theses. But was the premodern body really as open as all that, and is the bourgeois body really so closed off? It's interesting, then, and I'm sure others have remarked on this, that the trajectory in Rabelais, with its corporeal theory, is from more to less freedom, whereas in Dialogic, with its more literary theory, is from less (epic) to more (novel) freedom. (okay, "freedom": insert whatever word works for you in its place).<br /><br />I'm really struck by the devotion/theology affect/thought division in the 2nd CFP. Among other things, it dovetails nicely with a <a href="http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2007/05/brain-science-podcast-11-emotion/" rel="nofollow">podcast</a> I've been enjoying lately. Sounds like great stuff!<br /><br />Also, on the MedGuild City conference: who's your plenary speaker this year?Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-86930801498817334232009-08-14T16:16:08.241-04:002009-08-14T16:16:08.241-04:00I've been wondering where you were!I've been wondering where you were!Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.com