E-CONFERENCE (2008)

APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture

E-Conference: February, 2008

Genres and Cultures

In this archive, you’ll find notes on the first-ever, fully electronic conference in the field of Renaissance & early modern literary and cultural studies.

That event took place in February, 2008. During that month alone, the Appositions site received over 4,000 hits, and 27 comments were posted in reply to the papers and special events.

Selected essays from the conference have been reviewed once more by the Editorial Board, revised and/or edited again by their authors, and then collected into Volume One (2008) of the e-journal, Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, which you may find above on this site, http://appositions.blogspot.com/.

Here, in the conference archive, you’ll find the names of our presenters, the titles of their works, and the comments posted. The conference included:

* 17 Papers
* 3 Special Events

Our authors represented 6 countries (Australia, Canada, Cyprus, England, Ireland, & the United States) and, within the US, 7 states (CA, CO, IL, NJ, NM, TX, & WI).

If you would like to see a copy of the CFP for that event, click here:
http://appositions.blogspot.com/2008/01/appositions-studies-in-renaissance.html

Given the nature of our medium and our plans to link that conference to the journal, the essays that were presented were hybrids: partly for the ears, partly for the eyes; moving toward publication. All of those papers were reviewed by the Editors (and/or by other external readers) and underwent at least one round of revision and editing prior to their appearances at the conference.

If our electronic platform may seem relatively modest (considering what might be possible these days in the digital realm), our content, we hope, will strike you as first-rate material. In our opinion, we have assembled a robust gathering of articles in Volume One of Appositions that all strike a vital balance between traditional and innovative concerns in the field. The content speaks/reads for itself, but, of course, we also need and want your participation.

Here, in the conference archive, as in the journal, you may post your questions and comments via the “Post a Comment” link at the bottom of each document page.

We hope you enjoy your visit, and that you’ll share Appositions with your colleagues, friends, and students.

—The Editors

24 / 17
proposals submitted / papers presented
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APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, http://appositions.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1946-1992, Volume One (2008): Genres & Cultures

EDITORIAL STATEMENT

APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture

E-Conference: February, 2008

Genres and Cultures

Submission Deadline (Abstracts): October 1, 2007
Submission Deadline (Papers): January 1, 2008
E-conference: February, 2008
Journal launch / publication: May, 2008

Call for Papers: The inaugural issue of Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture seeks conference papers (critical, scholarly, theoretical) examining relationships between literary texts and social contexts that hinge upon the significance of genres and forms of discourse. How and why do literary genres emerge and change within and against fields of cultural production? Or, alternately: how and why do social discourses shape distinctive modes and forms of literary art? Or, antithetically: how and why do literary works evade generic/modal classifications and cultural narratives? Beyond such chiastic formulations, what other factors (e.g. audience, gender, identity, occasion, politics) also contribute to the synergy between genres and cultures? Comparative, interdisciplinary, and trans-historical approaches are encouraged.

Limitations: Abstracts (200 words). Conference papers (2,000-3,000 words). Journal articles (3,000-4,000 words). New work. No simultaneous submissions.

Guidelines: Selected papers from the electronic conference (February, 2008) will be considered for publication (as essays, revised and expanded) in the journal, Appositions, which will launch/publish in May, 2008.

Conference Location: http://appositions.blogspot.com/

Electronic Submissions: Abstracts to showard@du.edu by October 1, 2007; completed conference papers, by January 1, 2008.
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APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, http://appositions.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1946-1992, Volume One (2008): Genres & Cultures

EVENT A: John Milton E-Variorum

John Milton E-Variorum: “Meethought I saw my late espoused saint”

Welcome to Event A at the Appositions 2008 conference, where we invite your annotations on Milton’s sonnet, “Meethought I saw my late espoused saint.”

If you would like to participate in this E-Variorum, simply add your contribution here via the “post a comment” link at the bottom of this page.

The results of this collaborative project (if sufficient & interesting) may be published, after editorial review, in volume one of the digital journal, Appositions, scheduled to launch in May, 2008.

We invite your questions, comments, and collaborative postings.
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“Meethought I saw my late espoused saint,” Poems, &c. upon several occasions by Mr. John Milton; both English and Latin, &c.; composed at several times; with a small tractate of education to Mr. Hartlib (London: Printed for Tho. Dring, 1673), p. 61.

“Meethought I saw my late espoused saint” is the last of Milton’s sonnets. In Poems (1673) the text appears numbered as XIX; however, scholars customarily refer to this poem as sonnet XXIII, which reflects a chronological placement within the complete arc of all of Milton’s sonnets.
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XIX.

Meethought I saw my late espoused Saint
Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,
Whom Joves great Son to her glad Husband gave,
Rescu’d from death from force though pale and faint.
Mine as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint,
Purification in the old Law did save,
And such, as yet once more I trust to have
Full fight of her in Heaven without restraint,
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind:
Her face was vail’d, yet to my fancied fight,
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin’d
So clear, as in no face with more delight.
But O as to embrace me she enclin’d
I wak’d, she fled, and day brought back my night.
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Source: Early English Books Online. Wing / 643:01. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 165 pp.

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Stella Achilleos: "Anacreontic Sociability"

Dr. Stella Achilleos
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages and Literature
University of Nicosia

The Anacreontic and the Growth of Sociability in Early Modern England

Brian Bates: "Parodic Sonnets"

Brian Bates

University of Denver

Wordsworth, Milton, and Parodic Sonnets

Jordan Cofer: "Contrasting Views of Women"

Jordan Cofer

Texas Tech University

The Contrasting Views of Women in Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling

Siobhan Collins: "Gold Coins & the Phoenix"

Dr. Siobhán Collins
Making Books, Shaping Readers Project
English Department
University College Cork

Gold Coins and the Phoenix in Donne’s Genre-Defying Verse

James Doelman: "The Parodic Epitaph"

Dr. James Doelman
Department of English
Brescia University College
University of Western Ontario

“A Libell, for an Epitaph”: The Parodic Epitaph in the Early Stuart Period

Daniel Fusch: "The Unmiraculous Miracle"

Daniel Fusch
Editor, Dante’s Heart
Director of Research, Academic Impressions

The Discourse of the Unmiraculous Miracle: Touching for the King’s Evil in Stuart England

Katherine Heavey: "Translating Medea"

Katherine Heavey
Durham University

Translating Medea into the Sixteenth Century

Hannah Lavery: "Exchange & Reciprocation"

Hannah Lavery
University of Sheffield

Exchange and Reciprocation in Nashe’s ‘Choise of Valentines’ (c. 1592)

EVENT B: Renaissance / Early Modern Keywords

Renaissance / Early Modern Keywords

Welcome to Event B at the Appositions conference, an open-access, public Wiki, where we invite you to participate.

The results of this collaborative project (if sufficient & interesting) may be published, after editorial review, in volume one of the digital journal, Appositions, scheduled to launch in May, 2008.

The topic for this Wiki is: keywords. More specifically: Renaissance /early modern keywords that undergo significant shifts in meaning during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

If you would like to participate in this Wiki, you have two options:

1. Visit the Wiki, http://appositions2008keywords.pbwiki.com/, and then add your contribution here via the post a comment link at the bottom of this page at the Appositions conference site. Or . . .

2. Visit the Wiki, http://appositions2008keywords.pbwiki.com/, and then add your contribution there. You’ll need to enter a username, your e-mail address, and this password, genres&cultures, to proceed further.

We invite your questions, comments, and collaborative postings.

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APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, http://appositions.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1946-1992, Volume One (2008): Genres & Cultures

Mary Lindroth: "Liquid Societies"

Mary Lindroth
Associate Professor of English
Caldwell College

Moliere’s “Liquid Society”: Ivo van Hove’s and New York Theatre Workshop’s Production of The Misanthrope

Jessica Malay: "Buildings with Words"

Dr. Jessica L. Malay
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
University of Huddersfield
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

Buildings with Words: Architectural Metonymy in Early Modern Literary Texts

Sharon Meltzer: "Genre, Culture & the Moment"

Sharon B. Meltzer, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Richard J. Daley College

Genre, Culture, and the Moment of The Merchant

Tracey Miller-Tomlinson: "Dramatic Hybridities"

Tracey Miller-Tomlinson
New Mexico State University

Dramatic Hybridities: Sex, Nation, and Genre in Cymbeline and Bonduca

Robert Viking O’Brien: "Travel & the Sonnet"

Robert Viking O’Brien
Department of English
California State University, Chico

Continental Travel & the Sonnet Sequence: The Example of Robert Tofte's Laura, The Toyes of a Traveller

Sarah Scheiner-Bobis: "Aesthetics of Control"

Sarah Thalia Scheiner-Bobis
Department of Critical & Cultural Theory
Cardiff University

Governmentality & Biopolitics: Aesthetics of Control in Court Literature and Courtesy Books of the Italian Renaissance

Alison Searle: "Emergence & Interaction"

Alison Searle
Honorary Associate
University of Sydney

Letters: Emergence, Interaction, Transcendence

Emily Bowles Smith: "Corporeal Intelligibility"

Emily Bowles Smith
Lawrence University

“Our print . . . still remain on the prest greens”: Corporeal intelligibility & the nature of the press in Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman & His Sister

Brian Yost: "Visual and Ideological Revolt"

Brian Yost
Texas Tech University

Visual and Ideological Revolt: The Divided Carnivalesque in The Revenger’s Tragedy

EVENT C: An Collins E-Variorum

An Collins E-Variorum: “Another Song. The Winter of my infancy being over-past”

Welcome to Event C at the Appositions conference, where we invite your annotations on An Collins’s “Another Song. The Winter of my infancy being over-past” from her book of religious and political verse, Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653).

If you would like to participate in this E-Variorum, simply add your contribution here via the “post a comment” link at the bottom of this page.

The results of this collaborative project (if sufficient & interesting) may be published, after editorial review, in volume one of the digital journal, Appositions, scheduled to launch in May, 2008.

We invite your questions, comments, and collaborative postings.
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“Another Song. The Winter of my infancy being over-past,” Divine Songs and Meditacions (London: Printed by R. Bishop, 1653), pp. 56-8.

Since 1815 the poetry of An Collins has received increasing (if intermittent) amounts of attention—from early book collectors, bibliographers, and editors to current scholars, teachers, and writers—various levels of engagement shaped partly by the texts themselves and partly by their author’s near anonymity and her volume’s scarcity. We still know nothing else of An Collins’s life beyond what little autobiographical information may be inferred from reading her work. Although some records note a 1658 octavo, that putative edition either has been lost or never existed. The only surviving copy of Divine Songs and Meditacions is currently preserved at the Huntington Library, shelfmark RB 54047 (Wing C5355). “Another Song. The Winter of my infancy being over-past” is among the three most frequently cited and discussed of Collins’s poems.
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Another Song.

The Winter of my infancy being over-past
I then supposed, suddenly the Spring would hast
Which useth every thing to cheare
With invitacion to recreacion
This time of yeare,

The Sun sends forth his radient beames to warm the ground
The drops distil, between the gleams delights abound,
Ver brings her mate the flowery Queen,
The Groves shee dresses, her Art expresses
On every Green.

But in my Spring it was not so, but contrary,
For no delightfull flowers grew to please the eye,
No hopefull bud, nor fruitfull bough,
No moderat showers which causeth flowers
To spring and grow.

My Aprill was exceeding dry, therfore unkind;
Whence tis that small utility I look to find,
For when that Aprill is so dry,
(As hath been spoken) it doth betoken
Much scarcity.

Thus is my Spring now almost past in heavinesse
The Sky of pleasure’s over-cast with sad distresse
For by a comfortlesse Eclips,
Disconsolacion and sore vexacion,
My blossom nips.

Yet as a garden is my mind enclosed fast
Being to safety so confind from storm and blast
Apt to produce a fruit most rare,
That is not common with every woman
That fruitfull are.

A Love of goodnesse is the cheifest plant therin
The second is, (for to be briefe) Dislike to sin,
These grow in spight of misery,
Which Grace doth nourish and cause to flourish
Continually.

But evill mocions, currupt seeds, fall here also
whenc springs prophanesse as do weeds where flowers grow
Which must supplanted be with speed
These weeds of Error, Distrust and Terror,
Lest woe succeed

So shall they not molest, the plants before exprest
Which countervails these outward wants, & purchase rest
Which more commodious is for me
Then outward pleasures or earthly treasures
Enjoyd would be.

My little Hopes of worldly Gain I fret not at,
As yet I do this Hope retain; though Spring be lat
Perhaps my Sommer-age may be,
Not prejudiciall, but beneficiall
Enough for me.

Admit the worst it be not so, but stormy too,
Ile learn my selfe to undergo more then I doe
And still content my self with this
Sweet Meditacion and Contemplacion
Of heavenly blis,

Which for the Saints reserved is, who persevere
In Piety and Holynesse, and godly Feare,
The pleasures of which blis divine
Neither Logician nor Rhetorician
Can well define.

Finis
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Source: Early English Books Online. Wing C5355 / 177:01. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 96pp.
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CFP 2008: Genres and Cultures

APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture
E-Conference: February, 2008
Genres and Cultures
Submission Deadline (Abstracts): October 1, 2007
Submission Deadline (Papers): January 1, 2008
E-Conference: February, 2008
Journal launch / publication: May, 2008

Call for Papers: The inaugural issue of Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture seeks conference papers (critical, scholarly, theoretical) examining relationships between literary texts and social contexts that hinge upon the significance of genres and forms of discourse. How and why do literary genres emerge and change within and against fields of cultural production? Or, alternately: how and why do social discourses shape distinctive modes and forms of literary art? Or, antithetically: how and why do literary works evade generic/modal classifications and cultural narratives? Beyond such chiastic formulations, what other factors (e.g. audience, gender, identity, occasion, politics) also contribute to the synergy between genres and cultures? Comparative, interdisciplinary, and trans-historical approaches are encouraged.

Limitations: Abstracts (200 words). Conference papers (2,000-3,000 words). Journal articles (3,000-4,000 words). New work. No simultaneous submissions.

Guidelines: Selected papers from the electronic conference (February, 2008) will be considered for publication (as essays, revised and expanded) in the journal, Appositions, which will launch/publish in May, 2008.

Conference Location: http://appositions.blogspot.com/

Electronic Submissions: Abstracts to showard [at] du.edu by October 1, 2007; completed conference papers, by January 1, 2008.
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APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, http://appositions.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1946-1992, Volume One (2008): Genres & Cultures