Posted: 2008-04-21 12:53am
I think you're reading too much into what was probably just an attempt at adding some extra drama. Alternatively, you know some sane post-modernists. Because when I think of "pomo Beowulf", I imagine a version where the guy was a closet homosexual transvestite and all the manly-man monster-slaying stuff was just overcompensation.Illuminatus Primus wrote:They take things like traditional hero stories and such and try to "deconstruct it" or turn it on its head. Hence the classic hero becomes a flawed man who dies trying to make up for the mistakes that haunted him his whole life.