Syllabus
Programme
Week 1 (30 Sep) Introductory
Lines 1-52
Week 2 (7 Oct) ll. 1– 114
Presentation:
• Page, R. I. (1970): „The Violent Tenor of Life“. In Page R. I. (1970): Life in Anglo-Saxon England, London: Batsford, pp. 1-13.
Week 3 (14 Oct) ll. 115 – 198a
Presentation:
• F. C. Robinson: „Two Aspects of Variation in Old English Poetry“ (1979)
Week 4 (21 Oct) Christine Rauer (St Andrews): „Beowulf and Mercia: The House Did Hold Both Ingeld and Christ“ ll. 405 – 455; 662 – 687
Week 5 (28 Oct) Bank holiday. No class.
Week 6 (4 Nov) ll. 710 – 852
Presentation:
· B. Mitchell: „Literary Lapses: Six Notes on Beowulf and Its Critics“(1992)
Week 7 (11 Nov) ll. 928 – 979
Week 8 (18 Nov) ll. 1050 – 1159a
Week 9 (25 Nov) ll. 1251 – 1287; 1345 – 1396
Presentations:
· F. C. Robinson: „Elements of the Marvelous in the Characterization of Beowulf: A Reconsideration of the Textual Evidence“ (1974)
· S. B. Greenfield: „A Touch of the Monstrous in the Hero or Beowulf Re-Marvellized“ (1982)
Week 10 (2 Dec) ll. 1677 – 1768
Week 11 (9 Dec) ll. 2417 – 2565
Week 12 (16 Dec) ll. 2729 – 2751; 2794 – 2808; 2813 – 2820
Week 12 (6 Jan) ll. 3007b – 3075, 3137 – 3182
Presentations:
· A. J. Bliss: „Beowulf, Lines 3074-3075“ (1979)
· B. Mitchell: „Beowulf, Lines 3074-3075: The Damnation of Beowulf?“ (1982)
· C. T. Berkhout: „Brief Note. Beowulf 3123b: Under the Malice-Roof“ (1973)
Annotation
A course designed to found interpretations of the poem on solid philological and linguistic foundation.
