Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 137 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
1. Language : an overview process: -- Textual effects/affects -- Metonymy : implications for interpretation -- When a Kenning is not a Kenning -- Metonymy in action -- 2. Swords and signs : dynamic semeiosis in Beowulf: -- Interlace, text, and sign -- Peirce's concept of sign -- Words, things, and the space between -- The web of signs -- The giant sword hilt : a path out of secondness -- 3. Gender and interpretation in Beowulf: -- Voices for paradox -- Critical voices -- The Helenization of Hildeburh -- The voice of Wealhtheow : peace-weaver in a double bind -- Modthryth as spectacle and spectator |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-132) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda |
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Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Beowulf
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Beowulf fast |
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Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Semiotics and literature -- England
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Feminism and literature -- England
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Sex role in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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Feminism and literature
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Semiotics and literature
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Sex role in literature
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Beowulf (anoniem)
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England
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0585029628 |
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9780585029627 |
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