附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-132) and index.
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.
