IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 201: New Perspectives on the Exeter Book Riddles
Monday 12 July 2004, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Paper 201-a | Structures of Power in Some Exeter Book Riddles (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 201-b | Exeter Book Riddle 4: A Trap for the Unwary (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Sexuality |
Paper 201-c | Runes, Swords, and Semiotics in the Exeter Book Riddles (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | This session approaches the endlessly tantalising Exeter Book Riddles from three very different perspectives: the growing field of semiotic study, feminist criticism and discourse analysis, and reader-response theory. The papers will address a range of riddles, including the 'obscene' riddles, artefact-riddles, and problematic or unsolved riddles. |