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Teaching “Beowulf” : Practical Approaches / ed. by Larry Swain, Ophelia Eryn Hostetter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 78Publisher: Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (VII, 293 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501517549
  • 9781501511905
  • 9781501512087
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: “Mystery Date” -- I The Basics -- Chapter 1 The Text of Beowulf: Teaching Issues and Solutions -- Chapter 2 Beowulf and Translation: Introducing Students to Old English -- Chapter 3 Of Fitts, Fights, and Funerals: Teaching the Episodes and Structure of Beowulf -- II Classrooms and Circulations -- Chapter 4 Beowulf: A Secondary Smorgasbord -- Chapter 5 The Dragon Has Left the Building: Teaching Beowulf in the Community College Classroom -- Chapter 6 Beowulf: Pedagogy in the Digital Age -- Chapter 7 Teaching Beowulf through Its Sources and Analogues in the Undergraduate Survey -- Chapter 8 Beowulf’s Legacies in Popular Culture: Using Film to Teach Narrative Expectation -- III Teaching Topics -- Chapter 9 Teaching Beowulf: Deconstructing the Orality/Literacy Binary and Toxic Nostalgia -- Chapter 10 Helmets and Shields and Swords: Teaching the Material Culture of Beowulf -- Chapter 11 Christian and Pagan Syncretism in Beowulf -- Chapter 12 Three-Dimensional Heroism in Beowulf -- Chapter 13 Teaching the Beowulf-Monsters -- Chapter 14 Teaching Beowulf as a Cultural Reliquary -- Chapter 15 Gender and Identity in Beowulf -- Chapter 16 Teaching Homo-Eroticism and Homo-Amory in Beowulf -- Chapter 17 The “Wildernesses” of Beowulf: Landscapes, Liminality, and Environmental Criticism -- Appendix A: List of Episodes & Events in Beowulf (compiled by Mae Kilker) -- Appendix B: Chronological Account of Geatish History
Summary: Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels. More students than ever before wrestle with Grendel in the darkness of Heorot or venture into the dragon’s barrow for gold and glory. This increase of attention and interest in the Old English epic has led to a myriad of new and varying translations of the poem published every year, the production of several mainstream film and television adaptations, and many graphic novel versions. More and more teachers in all sorts of classrooms, with varying degrees of familiarity and training are called upon to bring this ancient poem before their students. This practical guide to teaching Beowulf in the twenty-first century combines scholarly research with pedagogical technique, imparting a picture of how the poem can be taught in contemporary American institutions.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: “Mystery Date” -- I The Basics -- Chapter 1 The Text of Beowulf: Teaching Issues and Solutions -- Chapter 2 Beowulf and Translation: Introducing Students to Old English -- Chapter 3 Of Fitts, Fights, and Funerals: Teaching the Episodes and Structure of Beowulf -- II Classrooms and Circulations -- Chapter 4 Beowulf: A Secondary Smorgasbord -- Chapter 5 The Dragon Has Left the Building: Teaching Beowulf in the Community College Classroom -- Chapter 6 Beowulf: Pedagogy in the Digital Age -- Chapter 7 Teaching Beowulf through Its Sources and Analogues in the Undergraduate Survey -- Chapter 8 Beowulf’s Legacies in Popular Culture: Using Film to Teach Narrative Expectation -- III Teaching Topics -- Chapter 9 Teaching Beowulf: Deconstructing the Orality/Literacy Binary and Toxic Nostalgia -- Chapter 10 Helmets and Shields and Swords: Teaching the Material Culture of Beowulf -- Chapter 11 Christian and Pagan Syncretism in Beowulf -- Chapter 12 Three-Dimensional Heroism in Beowulf -- Chapter 13 Teaching the Beowulf-Monsters -- Chapter 14 Teaching Beowulf as a Cultural Reliquary -- Chapter 15 Gender and Identity in Beowulf -- Chapter 16 Teaching Homo-Eroticism and Homo-Amory in Beowulf -- Chapter 17 The “Wildernesses” of Beowulf: Landscapes, Liminality, and Environmental Criticism -- Appendix A: List of Episodes & Events in Beowulf (compiled by Mae Kilker) -- Appendix B: Chronological Account of Geatish History

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Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels. More students than ever before wrestle with Grendel in the darkness of Heorot or venture into the dragon’s barrow for gold and glory. This increase of attention and interest in the Old English epic has led to a myriad of new and varying translations of the poem published every year, the production of several mainstream film and television adaptations, and many graphic novel versions. More and more teachers in all sorts of classrooms, with varying degrees of familiarity and training are called upon to bring this ancient poem before their students. This practical guide to teaching Beowulf in the twenty-first century combines scholarly research with pedagogical technique, imparting a picture of how the poem can be taught in contemporary American institutions.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024)