IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1808: Critical Studies in Old English Masculinities, IV: Embodied Masculinities
Thursday 8 July 2021, 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: | Gareth Lloyd Evans, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford |
Paper 1808-a | The Universal Male Body and the Problem of Women's Bodies in Old English Medicine (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine |
Paper 1808-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 1808-c | The Cruelty of Men and the Optimism of Dragons: Beowulf's Failed Masculinity (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 (4 of 4) examines bodies and the idea of the body in dialogue with masculine gender performances in early English texts. |