A critical poetics of allure: 10 antiphons for the bringing-to-appearance of the place of allure as a complicity of human and non-human matter in writing, or, the Physis of the Whale in Anglo-Saxon England

Women and Water: Icelandic Tales and Anglo-Saxon Moorings

“…We explore what early medieval ideas about water have to say about modes of knowing, seeing and understanding and we ask how might they resonate now (see, e.g., Stock 1993)? The recognition that water is itself a place as much as land is an emerging topic of much recent scholarship: in Anglo-Saxon Studies it figures in explorations of identity and landscape, for example, as well as in translation and animal studies and in explorations of the posthuman (see Lees and Overing 2006;Sobecki 2011;Remein 2012;Klein and Schipper 2014). The connections of women to water have also been explored across a variety of disciplines, from the physics of fluid mechanics on through to the literary, theological and psychoanalytic (see Theweleit 1987, Hayles 1992and Niemanis 2017.…”