ENGL 40221 - Beowulf: Text and Culture

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

Using a glossed text of Beowulf in Old English, an examination of a wide range of critical and cultural issues: What relationship do we expect between "heroic" texts and the society that produced and enjoyed them? What cultural investments of our own lead us to read certain Old English texts and not others? How did Beowulf receive canonical status? What is a translation? And what strategies of reading can we bring to a thousand-year old poem?

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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