IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 218: Exploring the Monstrous, I: Constructions of Identity
Monday 12 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory & Practical Application) / Glasgow Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow |
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| Organiser: | Asa S. Mittman, Department of Art & Art History, California State University, Chico |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jeff Massey, Department of English, Molloy College, New York |
| Paper 218-a | Queering Mandeville's Female Monsters: Transformative, Transgender, Transsexual (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Women's Studies |
| Paper 218-b | 'The angels men complain of': Monstrous Masculinity in La Conte du Graal (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Women's Studies |
| Paper 218-c | Living Large and Leaving the Liminal: The Giant Saint and the Incarnation in the South English Legendary's Life of St Christopher (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Philosophy, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This is one of two sessions on monsters and monstrosity submitted by MEARCSTAPA. The year's theme of Travel and Exploration is a perfect fit with our interest in monstrosity, a concept frequently linked to geography in the Middle Ages. These three papers focus on clothing, armor, and gender in constructions of monstrosity. The papers will interrogate the issue of where identity lies, on the outside or the inside, in the interior individual, in its body, or even in the clothing by which it is covered. In all cases, the construction of monsters bears important implications for our understandings of medieval notions of the human. |