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Author Overing, Gillian R., 1952-

Title Language, sign, and gender in Beowulf / Gillian R. Overing
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1990

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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
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SUBJECT Beowulf
Beowulf fast
Subject Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Semiotics and literature -- England
Feminism and literature -- England
Sex role in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Feminism and literature
Semiotics and literature
Sex role in literature
Beowulf (anoniem)
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585029628
9780585029627