This work includes twenty-four essays including a preface, introduction, afterword, and sections containing seminal methodological pieces by such giants as Edward Said and Michel Foucault, as well as contemporary applications to Beowulf and other Old English and Germanic texts focusing on historicism, psychoanalysis, gender, textuality, and post-colonialism.

About the Author
Eileen Joy is a professor in the Department of English and Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA. Joy has a PhD in English from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an MFA and BA in creative writing and English from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Mary K. Ramsey is Assistant Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University, USA.


Book Information
ISBN 9781933202082
Author Eileen A. Joy
Format Paperback
Page Count 772
Imprint West Virginia University Press
Publisher West Virginia University Press
Weight(grams) 1348g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 164mm * 39mm