Dating Beowulf : studies in intimacy /
Featuring essays from some of the most prominent voices in early medieval studies, Dating Beowulf playfully redeploys the word 'dating,' which usually heralds some of the most divisive critical impasses in the field, to provocatively phrase a set of new relationships with an Old English po...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2020].
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| Series: | Manchester medieval literature and culture ;
30. |
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Table of Contents:
- Getting intimate / Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver
- Part 1 : Beowulf in public: Community, joy, and the intimacy of narrative in Beowulf / Benjamin A. Saltzman
- Beowulf and the intimacy of large parties / Roberta Frank
- Beowulf as Wayland's work : thinking, feeling, making / James Paz
- Part 2 : Beowulf at home: Beowulf and babies / Donna Beth Ellard
- At home in the fens with the Grendelkin / Christopher Abram
- Part 3 : Beowulf outside: Elemental intimacies: agency in the Finnsburg episode / Mary Kate Hurley
- What the raven told the eagle : animal language and the return of loss in Beowulf / Mo Pareles
- Part 4 : Beowulf's contact list: Men into monsters : troubling race, ethnicity, and masculinity in Beowulf / Catalin Taranu
- Sad men in Beowulf / Robin Norris
- Differing intimacies : Beowulf translations by Seamus Heaney and Thomas Meyer / David Hadbawnik
- Part 5 : Beowulf in bed: Beowulf and Andreas : intimate relations / Irina Dumitrescu
- Beowulf, Bryher, and the Blitz : a queer history / Peter Buchanan
- Dating Wiglaf : emotional connections to the young hero in Beowulf / Mary Dockray-Miller.