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106-013 Beowulf | |
Note | Formerly available as 106-208/308. Students who have completed 106-208/308 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Bernard Muir |
Prerequisites | General prerequisite: Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites; plus 106-224/324 (106-024) Introductory Old English Language and Literature. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour tutorial 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 totalling 4000 words. |
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