Sadomasochistic Beowulf

Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissolution in Old English Literature

AvChristopher Vaccaro

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien New Queer Medievalisms

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Beskrivning

Sadomasochistic Beowulf applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English literature, advancing the knowledge of both fields. Its arguments are formulated through the works of Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Georges Bataille, and others. The book covers a range of Old English texts from heroic verse narratives to the prose texts of devotional and penitential anthologies and relates these to the poem Beowulf.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:535 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Queer Medievalisms
Antal sidor:251
Förlag:De Gruyter
ISBN:9781501517945

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Christopher Vaccaro is Senior Lecturer of English language and literature, gender studies, and medieval studies at the University of Vermont, where he has taught since 1999. Professor Vaccaro has three books, Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in medieval cultures (Manchester University, 2022), Tolkien and Alterity (Palgrave-Springer, 2017), and The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium (McFarland, 2013), and has published a number of articles and book chapters.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: Narratives of Transformation1. Narrativizing S/M Pleasures2. Hrothgar's Hosiery: A Bædling Hermeneutics3. Submitting to Divine PowerPart II: Desire and Fantasy4. Ritualized Sacrifice5. All the Sadistic Ladies6. Contemporary VisionsCoda: Beowulf's Kinky PleasuresBibliographyIndex