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Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissolution in Old English Literature(3 New Queer Medievalisms)

Sadomasochistic Beowulf: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissolution in Old English Literature(3 New Queer Medievalisms)


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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 project explores a field of queer pleasures associated with the dispersal of the self, the extinguishing of the ego, the submission to a more dominant psyche, the postponement of jouissance, and with what Volker Wolterdorff calls "masochistic self-shattering." 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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I: Narratives of Transformation 1. Narrativizing S/M Pleasures 2. Hrothgar's Hosiery: A Bædling Hermeneutics 3. Submitting to Divine Power Part II: Desire and Fantasy 4. Ritualized Sacrifice 5. All the Sadistic Ladies 6. Contemporary Visions Coda: Beowulf's Kinky Pleasures Bibliography Index

About the Author :
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 two books, Tolkien and Alterity (Palgrave-Springer, 2017) and The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium (McFarland, 2013), and has published articles in Mythlore, the Journal of Tolkien Research, Mallorn, and a review in Speculum. He referees submissions for the Journal of Tolkien Research and for Mythlore, the journal of the Mythopoeic Society, for which he sits on the editorial board. He is the organizer for the Tolkien at UVM conference and co-organizer for Tolkien at Kalamazoo.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781501517945
  • Publisher: De Gruyter
  • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 250
  • Series Title: 3 New Queer Medievalisms
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1501517945
  • Publisher Date: 03 Nov 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Queer Narratives of Desire and Dissolution in Old English Literature


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