Tag: criticism
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Loving Medb
Review essay examining past critical perspectives on Queen Medb, a character in the early Irish Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle-Raid of Cooley), published in the festschrift for University of Toronto Professor Emerita Ann Dooley, Gablánach in Scélaigecht: Celtic Studies in Honour of Ann Dooley. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, “Loving Medb,” in Gablánach in Scélaigecht:…
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Gablánach in Scélaigecht: Celtic Studies in Honour of Ann Dooley
A collection of sixteen original essays celebrating the career of Professor Emerita Ann Dooley of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies and Celtic Studies Program, published by Four Courts Press, Dublin. Co-edited with Joanne Findon and Westley Follett. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon, and Westley Follett, eds., Gablánach in Scélaigecht: Celtic…
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Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó
Essay on heroes, masculinity, and the body in the early Irish saga The Story of Mac Dathó’s Pig, published in the scholarly collection The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. First presented at Victoria College, University of Toronto in March 2006. A revised version appears in my thesis. Full bibliographical reference:…
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Matrilineal Subjects: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Metamorphosis in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
Essay on “Math son of Mathonwy,” the Fourth Branch of the medieval Welsh Mabinogi., published in the top-tier feminist journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. First presented in David Townsend’s Theory seminar at the Centre for Medieval Studies, spring 2004. “Matrilineal Subjects” was one of three finalists for the 2007 Catharine Stimpson…
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Fer Diad De-Flowered: Homoerotics and Masculinity in Comrac Fir Diad
Short essay on heroic violence and homoeroticism in the Fer Diad episode of the early Irish Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Ulidia 2. A revised version appears in my thesis. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, “Fer Diad De-Flowered: Homoerotics and Masculinity in Comrac Fir Diad,” in Ulidia 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on…
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Giants, Boar-Hunts, and Barbering: Masculinity in Culhwch ac Olwen
Essay on the early Welsh Arthurian tale, Culhwch and Olwen, published in the scholarly journal Arthuriana. First presented in David N. Klausner’s Middle Welsh seminar at the Centre for Medieval Studies, 2004. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, “Giants, Boar-hunts, and Barbering: Masculinity in Culhwch ac Olwen,” Arthuriana 15.3 (Fall 2005), 3–25. Founded in 1991, Arthuriana…
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