Beowulf and Tolkien : languages and myths

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Speaker(s)

Leo Carruthers

University of Paris IV

Events

From textual interpretation to the foundation of the novel : the case of The Three King…

Symposium

8 Jun 2016

15:50 - 16:30

Vincent Durand-Dastès

Au bord de l'eau and its posterity : between loyalty and revolt, order and barbarism

Myth and theoglossia in Yoshida Kanetomo and Yoshikawa Koretari

In the mirror of Homer. Performance, panhellenic authority and mythic exploration

Virgil's Aeneid : Founding story ? Founding text ?

Octavian, Hesiod, Virgil and the Arvalian brothers (reading in absentia by J.-N. Robert)

In the beginning was the Word : an investigation into the pseudological avatars of a fo…

François-Xavier Dillmann

The Heimskringla (or History of the Kings of Norway) by Snorri Sturluson

Hieroglossia and voice in the Kalevala and the Kalevala tradition

Rabelais' French and Latin hieroglossia and Greek dialectology

Beowulf and Tolkien : languages and myths

Beowulf and Tolkien : languages and myths

Speaker(s)

Leo Carruthers

Events

Introduction : what is the basis for a founding text ?

Is the Kojiki a fundamental text ?

Le Roman du Genji : a text with multiple dimensions

The Heike monogatari

Tales of the vague moon after the rain : Chinese inks and Japanese ghosts

The Zuo (Zuozhuan) Commentary, Confucian classic and historiographical model

From textual interpretation to the foundation of the novel : the case of The Three King…

Au bord de l'eau and its posterity : between loyalty and revolt, order and barbarism

Myth and theoglossia in Yoshida Kanetomo and Yoshikawa Koretari

In the mirror of Homer. Performance, panhellenic authority and mythic exploration

Virgil's Aeneid : Founding story ? Founding text ?

Octavian, Hesiod, Virgil and the Arvalian brothers (reading in absentia by J.-N. Robert)

In the beginning was the Word : an investigation into the pseudological avatars of a fo…

The Heimskringla (or History of the Kings of Norway) by Snorri Sturluson

Hieroglossia and voice in the Kalevala and the Kalevala tradition

Rabelais' French and Latin hieroglossia and Greek dialectology

Beowulf and Tolkien : languages and myths

General discussion and conclusion by François Macé

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