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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Overing, Gillian R., 1952- Language, sign, and gender in Beowulf. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1990 (OCoLC)556982228 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gillian R Overing |
| ISBN: | 0809315637 9780809315635 |
| OCLC Number: | 19325079 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xxvi, 137 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 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 |
| Responsibility: | Gillian R. Overing. |
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