IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 303: Critical Studies in Old English Masculinities, III: Relational Masculinities
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
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: | David Clark, School of English, University of Leicester |
Paper 303-a | Finding Male Friendship in Early Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Social History |
Paper 303-b | Enigmatic Masculinities: Locating Gendered Subjectivity in the Riddle Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 303-c | Static Masculinity: Grief without Mourning in Beowulf’s Hrethel Episode (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 (3 of 3) examines the role of masculinities in interpersonal relationships in Old English and Anglo-Latin literature. |