IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1202: Crossing the Border: Movement and Stasis in Old English Texts
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | University of Nottingham |
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Organiser: | Eleni Ponirakis, School of English, University of Nottingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Eleni Ponirakis, School of English, University of Nottingham |
Paper 1202-a | Emotions Inside and Outside: Crossing the Border (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities |
Paper 1202-b | Crossing Gender Boundaries: Spiritual Knowledge and Gender Fluidity in Ælfric's Lives of Saints (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities |
Abstract | These papers explore the idea of movement or resistance to movement across borders. 'Wondrous wanderings' explores how the non-human moves across engineered and natural boundaries in the riddles, and the resulting emotional responses. 'Emotions inside and outside' looks at how emotions travel across the boundary between inner and outer worlds in the OE prose Guthlac and other texts and 'Crossing gender' looks at how wisdom is gendered in Ælfric's Lives of Saints in those saints who cross gender boundaries. |