IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 203: Critical Studies in Old English Masculinities, II: Anxious Masculinities
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Caroline R. Batten, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford Gareth Lloyd Evans, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford |
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Moderator/Chair: | Marjorie Housley, Department of English University of Notre Dame Indiana |
Paper 203-a | (Trans)lating Love and Loss in Guthlac B and Felix's Vita S. Guthlaci (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Sexuality |
Paper 203-b | Bonds of Sinew: Masculine Performance and the Disabled Body in Old English Depictions of Weland (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 203-c | The Shame of Monsters and Men: Anxious Masculinity in Beowulf (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | These three linked sessions (and round table) explore the wide range of masculinities and masculine characters found in Old English texts. We seek to examine early medieval masculinities with the same critical scrutiny that has been brought to the study of women and femininities in Old English literature. Each session examines the multiple ways in which masculinity is constructed, performed, and subverted in early English texts, in dialogue with various critical frameworks of gender and sexuality. This session (2 of 3) examines the construction and problematization of masculinities in Old English and Anglo-Latin literature. |