Dating Beowulf : studies in intimacy / edited by Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver.

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TextSeries: Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 30. | Online access: Manchester University Press Manchester Open Access | Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL) | Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access BooksPublisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9781526136442
1526136449

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Studies in intimacy

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dating Beowulf.DDC classification:

829/.3 23

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PR1585 .D365 2020eb

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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.

Summary: Featuring essays from some of the most prominent voices in early medieval English studies, Dating Beowulf: studies in intimacy 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 poem. This volume presents an argument for the relevance of the early Middle Ages to affect studies and vice versa, while offering a riposte to anti-feminist discourse and opening avenues for future work by specialists in the history of emotions, feminist criticism, literary theory, Old English literature, and medieval studies alike. To this end, the chapters embody a range of critical approaches, from queer theory to animal studies and ecocriticism to Actor-Network theory, all organized into clusters that articulate new modes of intimacy with the poem.

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Featuring essays from some of the most prominent voices in early medieval English studies, Dating Beowulf: studies in intimacy 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 poem. This volume presents an argument for the relevance of the early Middle Ages to affect studies and vice versa, while offering a riposte to anti-feminist discourse and opening avenues for future work by specialists in the history of emotions, feminist criticism, literary theory, Old English literature, and medieval studies alike. To this end, the chapters embody a range of critical approaches, from queer theory to animal studies and ecocriticism to Actor-Network theory, all organized into clusters that articulate new modes of intimacy with the poem.