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Appetite for Deconstruction in Exeter Book Riddle 12

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ID8862597
AuthorsJennifer Neville (0000-0001-8108-4899, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume93
Issue5
Pages519-528
Publication date2012-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnglish Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0013838x.2012.698529
OpenAlexW2079099976
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited8

Although one of the notorious “obscene” riddles, Exeter Book Riddle 12 contains more than sexual titillation and denial. This article will address the text's antithetical pairings. Observing these pairings highlights issues of race, class, gender, and morality, but the text confounds any straightforward process of separating self from other in any of these areas and presents a disturbing enmeshing of the two that contradicts the usual expectations of a well-ordered, moral Anglo-Saxon society

Art · Class (philosophy · Deconstruction (building · Denial · Epistemology · Literature · Morality · Psychoanalysis · Race (biology · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Medieval Literature and History · Psychology · Gender Studies · Philosophy

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Citations per year0.43
Citation span2019 - 2024 (6)
Highly citedNo

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