Tag: literature
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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 chapter 4 of my thesis, “Gender and sexuality in early Irish saga” (available online through ProQuest Dissertations). Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, “Fer Diad De-Flowered: Homoerotics and…
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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…
Sarah Sheehan 