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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English Language

106-208/308 Beowulf

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Prerequisite/s:

106-224/324 Introductory Old English Language and Literature.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Two 1.5-hour seminars per week

Subject Description:

This is an advanced course in Old English in which the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf will be read in the original. Students completing this subject successfully will have achieved a deeper understanding of the subtleties of Old English, enabling them to perceive rhetorical figures, formal structures and narrative strategies in medieval literature; will have an understanding of the perceived essential elements of Western epic and of how new works in the tradition draw upon and/or work against generic expectation; and will have studied the impact of Christianity on the traditional pagan Germanic heroic ethos.

Assessment:

Written work of up to 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • C L Wren, Beowulf, Rev W F Bolton Exeter U P.
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