IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1729: Medieval Ecocriticisms: Human and Non-Human Others
Thursday 6 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Ecocriticisms |
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Organiser: | Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York |
Moderator/Chair: | Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York |
Paper 1729-a | Animals and Gods in Norse Mythology (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities, Pagan Religions |
Paper 1729-b | Otherness as a Symbol for Corrupt Human Nature in Old Icelandic Romance: An Ecotheological Reading of Ála Flekks Saga (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Monasticism, Theology |
Paper 1729-c | Beastly Criminals or Criminal Beasts?: Animals as 'Other' within the Law (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
Abstract | The IMC theme for 2017 of 'Otherness' refers primarily to human interactions with other human beings. The papers in this session examine how ecological approaches can engage with constructions of human 'otherness'. Two of the papers in this session consider humans with 'distorted bodies' in relationships with animals, monstrous, or magical beings, and wilderness in Middle English and Old Icelandic literature; the third examines the treatment of animals in a legal context in medieval France. The papers overlap in seeking to explore how our understanding of the human can be enriched by analysis of animals and landscapes. |