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The Postmodern Beowulf: A Critical Casebook

Eileen A. JOY and Mary K. RAMSEY

This work includes twenty-four essays including a preface, introduction, afterword, and sections containing seminal methodological pieces by such giants as Edward Said and Michel Foucault, as well as contemporary applications to Beowulf and other Old English and Germanic texts focusing on historicism, psychoanalysis, gender, textuality, and post-colonialism.

GenresBeowulfEpic poetry, English (Old)History and criticismCivilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature

704 pages

English edition · First published 2006 by West Virginia University Press · ISBN 9781933202082

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