IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 203: Getting Emotional with Beowulf
Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Oxford Medieval Studies |
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| Organiser: | Francis Leneghan, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Daniel Thomas, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Paper 203-a | Beowulf and Emotional Practice (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 203-b | The Surging of Water, the Surging of Feeling: The Mental Seascape in Beowulf (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Maritime and Naval Studies, Mentalities |
| Paper 203-c | Righteous Indignation: Beowulf's Anger Reconsidered (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities |
| Abstract | The past decade or so has seen a surge of interest in representations of emotional states in medieval literature. Beowulf is a poem of contrasting emotions: its characters, both human and monstrous, move through a range of inner states, from melancholy and despair to joy and delight, from crippling anxiety and fear to violent rage, from wonder to horror. Papers in this session will focus on connections between oral poetry and social practice, representations of the mind as a mental sea-scape, and hagiographical contexts for the hero's anger in his combats with the monsters. |