Gender And Sexuality In Early Irish Saga
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| Author | : Suzanne Conklin Akbari |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2013-01-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1442661399 |
Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body’s productive capacity – whether expressed through the flesh’s materiality, or through its role in performing meaning. The collection is divided into four clusters. ‘Foundations’ traces the use of physical remnants of the body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the form of the body as foundational in communal structures; ‘Performing the Body’ focuses on the ways in which the individual body functions as the medium through which the social body is maintained; ‘Bodily Rhetoric’ explores the poetic linkage of body and meaning; and ‘Material Bodies’ engages with the processes of corporeal being, ranging from the energetic flow of humoural liquids to the decay of the flesh. Together, the essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study.
| Author | : Sarah Künzler |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2016-08-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110455870 |
Bodies and their role in cultural discourse have been a constant focus in the humanities and social sciences in recent years, but comparatively few studies exist about Old Norse-Icelandic or early Irish literature. This study aims to redress this imbalance and presents carefully contextualised close readings of medieval texts. The chapters focus on the role of bodies in mediality discourse in various contexts: that of identity in relation to ideas about self and other, of inscribed and marked skin and of natural bodily matters such as defecation, urination and menstruation. By carefully discussing the sources in their cultural contexts, it becomes apparent that medieval Scandinavian and early Irish texts present their very own ideas about bodies and their role in structuring the narrated worlds of the texts. The study presents one of the first systematic examinations of bodies in these two literary traditions in terms of body criticism and emphasises the ingenuity and complexity of medieval texts.
| Author | : S. Sheehan |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2013-12-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137076380 |
Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.
| Author | : Mark Williams |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 608 |
| Release | : 2018-12-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 069118304X |
A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fiction Ireland’s Immortals tells the story of one of the world’s great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation’s languages, the book describes how Ireland’s pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era—and how they were recast again during the Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A lively narrative of supernatural beings and their fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams’s comprehensive history traces how these gods—known as the Túatha Dé Danann—have shifted shape across the centuries. We meet the Morrígan, crow goddess of battle; the fire goddess Brigit, who moonlights as a Christian saint; the fairies who inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s elves; and many others. Ireland’s Immortals illuminates why these mythical beings have loomed so large in the world’s imagination for so long.
| Author | : Anthony Bradley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This collection of essays focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in Irish history, biography, language, literature and drama. While the contributors employ a variety of methodological and critical perspectives, they share the conviction that the gendering of Ireland - not only of the nation, but of actual Irish men and women - is a construction of culture and ideology and not simply one of nature.
| Author | : Ann Dooley |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2006-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0802038328 |
Playing the Hero is a unique example of more contemporary literary methodologies – post-structuralist, feminist, historicist and beyond – being used to illuminate the Irish saga world.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 640 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Feminist theory |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Amanda Hopkins |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 184384379X |
An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises.
| Author | : Vern L. Bullough |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1136512241 |
Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the institutions that they created in the middle ages. The absorbing subject of sexuality in the Middle Ages is examined in 19 original articles written specifically for this "Handbook" by the major authorities in their scholarly specialties. The study of medieval sexuality poses problems for the researcher: indices in standard sources rarely refer to sexual topics, and standard secondary sources often ignore the material or say little about it. Yet a vast amount of research is available, and the information is accessible to the student who knows where to look and what to look for. This volume is a valuable guide to the material and an indicator of what subjects are likely to yield fresh scholarly rewards.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 666 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Celtic languages |
| ISBN | : |
