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106-013 Beowulf | |
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Note | Formerly available as 106-208/308. Students who have completed 106-208 or 106-308 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Bernard Muir |
Prerequisites | Usually 106-024 Introduction to Old English A and 106-029 Introduction to Old English B. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Thirty hours of lectures and tutorials scheduled across the semester |
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 | Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
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