Mental, Physical and Ontological Boundaries of the Human in Old Norse literature

本研究考察了古斯堪的纳维亚语文本如何处理具体化、碎片化和渗透性的过程。它将跨越遗产论、残疾研究、物质论和新唯物主义的学术框架，考察创造和消费这些文本的个人--从传奇到神话--如何探索“人”的物质、物理和本体论边界，设想人将批判性地陷入一个物质世界。将保持对躯体损失和残缺的双重关注，以及通过各种假肢和附属物延伸身体的躯体“获得”和突变。有关更多信息，请参阅下面的完整研究提案。

This research investigates the ways in which Old Norse texts grapple with processes of embodiment, fragmentation andpermeability. Spanning the scholarly frameworks of posthumanism, disability studies, thing theory, and new materialism,it will examine how the individuals creating and consuming these texts-from the sagas to the myths-explored themental, physical and ontological boundaries of the 'human', envisioning man to be critically enmeshed in an agentivematerial world. A dual focused will be maintained on somatic loss and mutilation, and somatic 'gain' and mutation throughthe extension of the body by various prosthetics and appendages. See full research proposal below for more information.