IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1104: The Holy and the Unholy: Queer Approaches to Good and Evil in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 16 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Queeries: An International Journal of Queer Studies |
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Organiser: | Noreen Giffney, Women's Education, Research & Resource Centre, University College Dublin |
Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Salih, School of Literature & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia |
Paper 1104-a | Christ's Orificial Body and the Homodevotional Ga(y)ze in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities, Sexuality |
Paper 1104-b | Offending the Audience (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama, Sexuality |
Paper 1104-c | The Queerness of Antichrist: A Theoretical Examination of Evil in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Mentalities, Sexuality, Theology |
Abstract | This session employs post-modern Queer Theory to interrogate pre-modern and modern representations of good and evil and, by extension, moral and immoral acts, identities, desires, and perceptions. Michael O'Rourke examines the Queer erotics and passionate desires which are attendant upon Christ's body from "The Dream of the Rood" to the morality plays to "Ancrene Wisse". Norren Griffney considers the body, genealogy, and uses of Antichrist in medieval apocalyptic discourse, while probing the links made between Antichrist and other outlawed groups. Focusing on the morality play "Mankind", Garrett Epp asks what it means, and what it might once have meant, to stage the medieval equivalent of 'in-yer-face' theatre. |