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It appears that, when addressing questions of materiality, Christian texts are preoccupied with modes of reading the body, the text, and the world around them. Aelfric’s treatment of the material body in the life of Saint Agatha serves as a didactic vehicle on two levels: the torture of her body serves as a vehicle into everlasting saint-hood, whilst the transformation of her body into text operates as a secondary vehicle, allowing others to do the same. Thus, we are taught to read her body as...
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It appears that, when addressing questions of materiality, Christian texts are preoccupied with modes of reading the body, the text, and the world around them. Aelfric’s treatment of the material body in the life of Saint Agatha serves as a didactic vehicle on two levels: the torture of her body serves as a vehicle into everlasting saint-hood, whilst the transformation of her body into text operates as a secondary vehicle, allowing others to do the same. Thus, we are taught to read her body as...
In poetry which features figures related to heroic society, such as Beowulf, it appears that it is not so much the presence of the female, but rather a woman who performs Halberstam’s “female masculinity” which causes a greater scrutiny on what constitutes the male. It is interesting to note that the tension generated by the potential contamination, and consequent obliteration of the category of “male” which surfaces in Beowulf is figured as an act of penetration. Although female prese...
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In poetry which features figures related to heroic society, such as Beowulf, it appears that it is not so much the presence of the female, but rather a woman who performs Halberstam’s “female masculinity” which causes a greater scrutiny on what constitutes the male. It is interesting to note that the tension generated by the potential contamination, and consequent obliteration of the category of “male” which surfaces in Beowulf is figured as an act of penetration. Although female prese...
Discuss the theme of female identity in As I Lay Dying and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Discuss the theme of female identity in As I Lay Dying and Their Eyes Were Watching God.