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Beowulf

Introduction

Summary & Intro

This ten minute introduction to Beowulf gives background, context, and solid summary

Assignment

Beowulf_Assignment.docx

Materials

Beowulf

Read by Seamus Heaney Part 1

Beowulf

read by Seamus Heaney: Part 2

Monomyth

Joseph Cambell

Discussion questions

Further research

Did ‘Beowulf’ have one author? Researchers find clues in stylometryUsing a statistical approach known as stylometry, which analyzes everything from the poem’s meter to the number of times different combinations of letters show up in the text, a team of researchers found new evidence that “Beowulf” is the work of a single author.

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