Dan and I on affect, intimacy, and Old English studies; @b_a_saltzman on Beowulf's scenes of shared storytelling; Roberta Frank on the poem's little-mentioned yet all-encompassing back stories; @James_A_Paz on Beowulf's unseen skilled labourers;
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Donna Beth Ellard on childbirth and infant caregiving in Beowulf; Christopher Abram on Grendel's resistance of environmental destruction; @MaryKateHurley on agency and Hildeburh's joy; @MoPareles on animal communications as threats to human modes and norms of intimacy;
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Catalin Taranu on the poem's engagement with race, masculinity, and anxiety; Robin Norris on ‘Sad men in Beowulf’;
@vestigiaflammae on translation, Heaney, and Meyer;@irinibus on Andreas as ‘Beowulf's most loving reader’;Show this thread -
@HwaetsUp on Bryher's novel Beowulf as queer palimpsest; and@MDockrayMiller on Wiglaf's challenge to Beowulf's ‘static, heroic masculinity’. In short, "Our title is admittedly a little cheeky, but it is meant in part as the site of an alternative discourse about the poem."Show this thread
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