Movement, Space, and Power in Cynewulf’s Juliana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12358367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kelly Williams (0000-0003-0217-5800, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-94 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Exemplaria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-2573 • E-ISSN: 1753-3074 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10412573.2020.1743532 |
| OpenAlex | W3057266703 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
Cynewulf’s Juliana has long been the subject of feminist criticism, particularly focusing on the moments when Juliana claims power and agency in enclosure, even in her imprisonment. This article reevaluates Juliana’s claims to power and agency from the perspective of modern critical theory and pragmatics, arguing that Juliana uses place-deixis to claim her body as a sovereign space, challenging the secular and political authority imposed upon her by her pagan father, her fiancé, and the emperor. These authorities force Juliana to move physically — first from her household, then to court, and then to different locations where she is tortured and imprisoned. However, her bodily movement contrasts not only with her spiritual fixity, but with her continuing sovereignty over the space of her body. Place-deixis and spatial imagery work with references to God’s all-encompassing physical presence to redefine “power the relationship” and dwarf the limited authority that earthly authorities seem to wield
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Body politic · Deixis · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Linguistics · Movement (music · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Reinterpretation · Sociology · Sovereignty · Subject (documents · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
Delegation of Power
Space and place
Land and Book
New Readings on Women in Old English Literature
Postcolonialism
The representation of the mind as an enclosure in Old English poetry
Reading, writing and resurrection
Invocation of the Trinity and the Tradition of the Lorica in Old English Poetry
Demonstratives in Space and Interaction
Pragmatics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |