Masculinity and Conversion in Old English Guthlac A
Masculinity and Conversion in Old English Guthlac A
Author(s): Jacek OlesiejkoSubject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Anglistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: old English
Summary/Abstract: The article turns to Judith Butler’s writings on abjection to elucidate the Christian subjectivity that emerges from the Old English poetic life of Guthlac of Crowland, known as Guthlac A. The abject is defi ned as the other within the subject who is in the process of conversion from secular values and the Germanic past. Guthlac’s conversion from his secular and ancestral values informs a notion of masculinity nascent in his subjectivity, masculinity that results from the abjection of ancestral secular identity by transposing it onto the demonic other, the destruction of which transforms and sanitizes ancestral landscape.
Journal: ANGLICA - An International Journal of English Studies
- Issue Year: 26/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-21
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English