IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 701: Riddles, Rituals, and Things: Theoretical Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 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 701-a | Degolfulne dom and dyran cræftes: Knowledge, Control, and the Relationship between Man and Nature in the Exeter Book Riddles (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities, Theology |
Paper 701-b | Ritual in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 701-c | Fah ond fyrheard ferhwearde heold: Materiality and Old English Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts, Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities |
Abstract | This session aims to explore the benefits of some recent theoretical conversations for the understanding of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture. C. Dale approaches the Exeter Book Riddles through the growing field of eco-criticism, focussing on the idea of the natural world's resistance to Wisdom Literature's project of control and confinement. Focussing on Felix's Life of St Guthlac, T. Lynch explores the insights granted by the study of ritual for the understanding of hagiography in specific, Anglo-Saxon contexts. P. Koppinen considers the 'material turn' from post-structuralism to examine materiality and the relationship between words and things in Old English poems. |