IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 617: Writing the Natural World, II: Gendering Natural Imagery
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research, Swansea University |
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Organiser: | Simon Meecham-Jones, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge / Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research, Swansea University |
Moderator/Chair: | Catherine A. M. Clarke, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO) / Department of English, Swansea University |
Paper 617-a | 'Nature and Nurture': Maternal Imagery in Julian of Norwich (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Theology |
Paper 617-b | 'Ymage repaired and disnatured fro Kynde': The Literary Construction and Deconstruction of Gender in Medieval Narratives of Merlin and the Passing Man (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative |
Paper 617-c | Lilies, Daisies, and 'Swete Cypresse': Nature Imagery in the Digby Mary Magdalene Play (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English |
Abstract | This session investigates the ways in which schemes of imagery from the natural world are used to problematise and undercut gender-specific patterns of expectation in secular and religious medieval texts. |