Preface, After everything, The Postmodern "Beowulf" / Eileen A. Joy
Introduction, Liquid Beowulf / Eileen A. Joy and Mary K. Ramsey
World, the text, and the critic / Edward Said
In transit : theorizing cultural appropriation in medieval Europe / Claire Sponsler
Beowulf and the ancestral homeland / Nicholas Hower
Writing the unreadable Beowulf / Allen J. Frantzen
Locating Beowulf in literary history / John D. Niles
Ethnicity, power and the English / John Moreland
Landscapes of conversion : Guthlac's mound and Grendel's mere as expressions of Anglo-Saxon nation-building / Alfred K. Siewers
Beowulf and the origins of civilization / James W. Earl
Enjoyment of violence and desire for history in Beowulf / Janet Thormann
Ethnopsychology of in-law feud and the remaking of group identity in Beowulf : the cases of Hengest and Ingeld / John M. Hill
Ruins of identity / Jeffrey J. Cohen
Regardless of sex : men, women, and power in early northern Europe / Carol J. Clover
Men and Beowulf / Clare A. Lees
Beowulf's tears of fatherhood / Mary Dockray-Miller
Voices from the margins : women and textual enclosure in Beowulf / Shari Horner
What is an author? / Michel Foucault
Textuality of Old English poetry / Carol Braun Pasternack
Swords and signs : dynamic semeiosis in Beowulf / Gillian Overing
Hrothgar's hilt and the reader in Beowulf / Seth Lerer
"As I once did with Grendel" : boasting and nostalgia in Beowulf / Susan Kim
Post-philology / Michelle R. Warren
Afterword, Reading Beowulf with original eyes / James W. Earl.
