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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.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Bernard Muir

Prerequisites

Normally 106-024 Introduction to Old English A and 106-029 Introduction to Old English B.

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.

Prescribed Texts
  • B Mitchell & F Robinson, Beowulf. Blackwell 1998.
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