IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1508: Critical Studies in Old English Masculinities, I: Relational Masculinities
Thursday 8 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
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: | Caroline R. Batten, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
Paper 1508-a | Enigmatic Masculinities: Locating Gendered Subjectivity in the Riddle Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 1508-b | Finding Male Friendship in Early Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 1508-c | Crying Out to Two Lords: Sex and Supplication in Wulf and Eadwacer (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | These four linked sessions (and a round table discussion) explore the wide range of masculinities and masculine characters found in Old English texts. We seek to examine early medieval masculinities with 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 (1 of 4) examines relational aspects - both interpersonal and cross-temporal - of masculinities in Old English and Anglo-Latin literature. |