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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 201: Anglo-Saxon Explorations of Space and Time

Monday 12 July 2010, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Department of English, University of Sydney
Organiser:Daniel Anlezark, daniel.anlezark@arts.usyd.edu.au
Moderator/Chair:Daniel Anlezark, daniel.anlezark@arts.usyd.edu.au
Paper 201-aExploring Time and Space in Andreas
(Language: English)
Anna Wallace, Department of English, University of Sydney
Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 201-bBeowulf's Geographic Modes: Realism or Not?
(Language: English)
Helen Appleton, Department of English, University of Sydney
Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Rhetoric
Abstract

The literature of the Anglo-Saxons reveals a variety of modes of perceiving and representing time and space. This variety is found within literary works and across the corpus of Old English literature. At times geographic accounts appear to aim for a descriptive realism, which can be found beside more symbolic landscapes which are also explored by writers and their characters. Papers in this session will examine and discuss these tropes in relation to the Old English poem Andreas, translations of Latin geographic literature, and the Old English charms.