Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy

Author : Daniel C. Remein (Assistant Professor of English)

Hardback

Published : Thursday 19 December 2019

ISBN : 9781526136435

Price : €29.25

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Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy

by Daniel C. Remein (Assistant Professor of English)

Hardback

19 Dec 2019

LITERARY CRITICISM
>> Medieval

€29.25

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Dating Beowulf explores the difficulties and pleasures of intimacy with Beowulf -philological and speculative, playful and serious - and how they organise themselves in an array of interrelated critical practices. Opening avenues for future work, it complicates urgent questions in the discourses of literary theory and Old English studies.

Featuring essays from some of the most prominent voices in early medieval studies, Dating Beowulf 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. The volume argues for the relevance of the early Middle Ages to affect studies and vice-versa, offering a riposte to antifeminist discourse and opening avenues for future work by specialists in the history of emotions, literary theorists, students of Old English literature and medieval scholars alike. To this end, the essays embody a range of critical approaches from queer theory to animal studies and ecocriticism to actor-network theory. -- .

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