Beowulf

abjection/the abject

3 agons, 3 peoples

borders/boundaries/entrances/outside(rs)

bodies (limbs, hands, heads)

Christianity & syncretism

comitatus

cyclical violence /blood feud(ing)

distances (mental, physical, temporal)

domestic tragedy

dragon (symbolism and multiple meanings)

elegy/elegiac

feuds

fluids (things which melt, are wet, or flow)

/ crossing of boundaries

form (the way a text or expression is presented) &

structure & unity (connected to modernism)

gender (roles)/sexuality

genealogy

genocide/extinction vs. survival

gift economy

gnomic wisdom

heroic construction/identity/self representation

hypervisuality

interlace and narrative

intertextuality/intertexts - function of

kings vs. heroes

land/territory/displacement

language: use of Old Englishvs Modern English

lineage/connections/patronymics

Part I: List of Concepts/Ideas

ludo-narrative dissonance

masculinity, construction (heroes, crying, etc.)

materiality/circulation of treasure

media forms (genealogy of) for Beowulfs

modernism

monsters/monstrosity (man/society as monster)

overture

paratext

peace-weavers/-ing (and peace-ripping)

political nature of an epic

post-human

post-modernism (vs. modernism)

power in Beowulf (social, political, physical

corruption)

recursion

revenge

revision and retelling in Beowulf

second wave feminism

sex (as connected to power and corruption)

structure of Beowulf (part 3 vs. first two parts)

temporality (time in Beowulf)

translation and (vs?) adaptation

treasure - function and changing nature

typology (e.g.Shield Sheafson / Christ as types

for Beowulf)

ubi sunt

unity

words & deeds