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Postmodern Beowulf A Critical Casebook

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ISBN-10: 1933202084

ISBN-13: 9781933202082

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eileen A. JOY, Mary K. RAMSEY, Mary K. Ramsey

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With essays by Eileen A. Joy, Mary K. Ramsey, Edward Said, Claire Sponsler, Nicholas Howe, Allen J. Frantzen, John D. Niles, John Moreland, Alfred K. Siewers, James W. Earl, Janet Thormann, John M. Hill, Jeffrey J. Cohen, Carol J. Clover, Clare A. Lees, Mary Dockray-Miller, Shari Horner, Michel Foucault, Carol Braun Pasternack, Gillian Overing, Seth Lerer, Susan Kim, and Michelle R. Warren
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Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 772
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.06" long x 1.54" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English

After everything, the postmodern "Beowulf"
Liquid Beowulf
The world, the text, and the critic
In transit : theorizing cultural appropriation in medieval Europe
Beowulf and the ancestral homeland
Writing the unreadable Beowulf
Locating Beowulf in literary history
Ethnicity, power and the English
Landscapes of conversion : Guthlac's mound and Grendel's mere as expressions of Anglo-Saxon nation-building
Beowulf and the origins of civilization
Enjoyment of violence and desire for history in Beowulf
The ethnopsychology of in-law feud and the remaking of group identity in Beowulf : the cases of Hengest and Ingeld
The ruins of identity
Regardless of sex : men, women, and power in early Northern Europe
Men and Beowulf
Beowulf's tears of fatherhood
Voices from the margins : women and textual enclosure in Beowulf
What is an author?
The textuality of old English poetry
Swords and signs : dynamic semeiosis in Beowulf
Hrothgar's hilt and the reader in Beowulf
"As I once did with Grendel" : boasting and nostalgia in Beowulf
Post-philology
Reading Beowulf with original eyes