Language, sign, and gender in Beowulf

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.