Modernist Medievalisms and Medieval Modernisms: Auꝺr the Deep-Minded and Derdriu in Norse, Old Irish, Modernist Irish and Post-1945 Scottish Literature

• Main Author: Gabbard, Cori L.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: CUNY Academic Works 2015
• Subjects: Comparative; Identity; Medieval; Modernism; War; Women; The Ravens; Iceland
• Online Access: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/935; https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1949&context=gc_etds

This dissertation explores in a comparative manner the connection between female identity and war in medieval and twentieth-century literature, arguing that texts written before the early modern period acknowledge a relationship between women and conflict that modernist and post-1945 writing mitigat...