Language, Sign and Gender in Beowulf

by Gillian R. Overing and Associate Professor Gillian R. Overing B.A. M.A. Ph.D.

Not a book about what Beowulf means but how it means, and how the reader participates in the process of meaning construction.

Overing's primary aim is to address the poem on its own terms, to trace and develop an interpretive strategy consonant with the extent of its difference. Beowulf's arcane structure describes cyclical repetitions and patterned intersections of themes which baffle a linear perspective, and suggest instead...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809315637
• ISBN13: 9780809315635
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"