CONGRESS CANCELED Early Medieval English Speculative Fictions
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Recently, critics have begun to use categories such as horror and science fiction to explore the imaginative depths of Anglo-Saxon literature, as well as their implications for Anglo-Saxon intellectual culture and worldview. James Paz and Carl Kears' recent volume, Medieval Science Fiction, demonstrates some of the myriad and exciting ways medievalists can think with and about speculative fiction and medieval literature. While speculative fiction offers exciting and useful ways of thinking about genre, narrative, literariness, canon, and reading, both as we experience them now and as they existed in Anglo-Saxon England, it can be argued that applying the frameworks of later genres troubles our historical understandings of early texts. This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship of Anglo-Saxon texts to the subgenres of speculative fiction: science fiction, fantasy, horror, alternate history, and others. James Ensley
CONGRESS CANCELED Early Medieval English Speculative Fictions
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Recently, critics have begun to use categories such as horror and science fiction to explore the imaginative depths of Anglo-Saxon literature, as well as their implications for Anglo-Saxon intellectual culture and worldview. James Paz and Carl Kears' recent volume, Medieval Science Fiction, demonstrates some of the myriad and exciting ways medievalists can think with and about speculative fiction and medieval literature. While speculative fiction offers exciting and useful ways of thinking about genre, narrative, literariness, canon, and reading, both as we experience them now and as they existed in Anglo-Saxon England, it can be argued that applying the frameworks of later genres troubles our historical understandings of early texts. This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship of Anglo-Saxon texts to the subgenres of speculative fiction: science fiction, fantasy, horror, alternate history, and others. James Ensley