CONGRESS CANCELED Paranormal Encounters in the Medieval North
Description
This session focuses on literary constructions, narrations, and depictions of otherworldly,other-than-human, and otherwise ambiguous figures associated with paranormal phenomena across medieval Scandinavia, inviting new critical approaches and creative re-interpretations. We especially welcome perspectives from ecocriticism, new materialism, object-oriented-ontology, and other rogue offshoots of contemporary critical theory to problematize how the very methodologies chosen for analyses tend to shape the interpretative results they yield. Paranormal phenomena become auspicious sites for interrogating what, then, was considered normal in premodern North, exposing socio-historical contingencies of the very concept of normativity. Miriam Mayburd
CONGRESS CANCELED Paranormal Encounters in the Medieval North
Schneider 1245
This session focuses on literary constructions, narrations, and depictions of otherworldly,other-than-human, and otherwise ambiguous figures associated with paranormal phenomena across medieval Scandinavia, inviting new critical approaches and creative re-interpretations. We especially welcome perspectives from ecocriticism, new materialism, object-oriented-ontology, and other rogue offshoots of contemporary critical theory to problematize how the very methodologies chosen for analyses tend to shape the interpretative results they yield. Paranormal phenomena become auspicious sites for interrogating what, then, was considered normal in premodern North, exposing socio-historical contingencies of the very concept of normativity. Miriam Mayburd