Body in The Old Norse Literature - YBEC167

• Title: Body in The Old Norse Literature
• Guaranteed by: Programme SHV - Language and Literature Module (24-KO)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2022 to 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, MC [HT]
• Capacity: 10 / unknown (10)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Marie Novotná, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Marie Novotná, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : YBAJ212, YMKDE019
• Is incompatible with: YBAJ212

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Hana Gabrielová (06.01.2023)

The course aims to delineate a space for ideas about the body found in Old Norse literature and, in the context of contemporary analyses in body-related research, to search for other polarities than the body- soul dualism. The themes analysed in detail will be: somatic displays of emotions; change of form in the context of battle ecstasy and of magic; corporeality of revenants; physical aspects of Old Norse terms for "soul" and the human-animal relationship.