The Postmodern Beowulf: A Critical CasebookEileen A. Joy, Mary K. Ramsey, Bruce D. Gilchrist |
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Anglo Anglo-Saxon culture Anglo-Saxon England appropriation Archaeology argues audience barrow Bede Bede's Beowulf Beowulf poet Britain Cambridge century Christian construction context criticism Danes Danish Dating of Beowulf death digressions discourse dragon Earl Early Medieval English studies epic essay ethnic feud Finnsburg Frantzen Frisians Geatish Geatland Geats gender geographical Germanic giants Grendel Guthlac Heardred Hengest Heorot Heremod hero heroic Hildeburh hilt homeland Hrothgar Hygelac identity Ingeld interpretation J. R. R. Tolkien John king landscape language lines literary London manuscript masculinity meaning memory Mercian Middle Ages migration modern monsters myth narrative objects Offa Old English poetry Ongentheow oral origin pagan past Philology poem poem's poet's political Postmodern readers reading recent reference relation reprinted role Roman Saxon scholars scholarship Scyld sense Sigemund social society speech story structures studies sword symbolic textual theory tion Tolkien tradition trans translation violence warrior words writing York Zahirite þæt