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A course designed to found interpretations of the poem on solid philological and linguistic foundation. Poslední úprava: Čermák Jan, prof. PhDr., CSc. (19.09.2024)
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Beowulf: A Philological Reading
Winter Semester, 2025-2026 Monday, 15.50 – 17.25, P/111
PREREQUISITES: History of English I OR working knowledge of Old English REQUIREMENTS: course work (weekly reading assignments); 1 presentation THE DEPARTMENT´S AI POLICY STATEMENT: https://uajd.ff.cuni.cz/ai-policy/ PROGRAMME
Week 1 (29 Sep) Introductory: Lines 1-52 Required reading 1 Robinson, F. C. (1983): „An Introduction to BEOWULF“. IN. Osborne, Marijane, Beowulf. A Verse Translation with Treasures of Ancient North, University of California Press, xi-xix Required reading 2 Heaney, Seamus (2000): „Introduction““. In Heaney S. Beowulf. A New Translation. London: Faber and Faber, pp. 9-27.
Week 2 (6 Oct) ll. 64 – 114 Required Reading 3 Scragg, Donald. 1991. "The Nature of Old English Verse." In The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, edited by Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, 55–70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Week 3 (13 Oct) Lines 115 – 198a Presentation 1 Robinson, Fred C. 1979. “Two Aspects of Variation in Old English Poetry.” In Old English Poetry: Essays on Style, edited by Daniel G. Calder, 127–46. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Week 4 (20 Oct) No class (to be made up for on an extra date).
Week 5 (27 Oct) Lines 405 – 455; 662 – 687; 710 – 852 Presentation 2 Franková, Roberta (1986). „ʽMereʼand ʽSundʼ: Two Sea-Changes in Beowulf“. In: Modes of Interpretation in Old English Literature. Essays in Honor of Stanley B. Greenfield. Ed. Peter Brown et al. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, s. 153–172.
Presentation 3 Fulk, R. D. "Afloat in Semantic Space: Old English sund and the Nature of Beowulf's Exploit with Breca." The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 114, no. 3, 2015, pp. 287-313.
Week 6 (3 Nov) Lines 928 – 979; 1050 – 1159a Presentation 4 Cronan, Dennis. "Poetic Meanings in the Old English Poetic Vocabulary." F অশrð fela, Old Norse Studies in Honour of Ursula Dronke, edited by Guðrún Nordal, et al., The Viking Society for Northern Research, 2010, pp. 1-19.
Week 7 (10 Nov) No class (to be made up for on an extra date).
Week 8 (17 Nov) No class: Study week (“Týden humanitních věd / A Week of Humanities”)
Week 9 (24 Nov) Lines 1251 – 1287; 1345 – 1396 Presentation 5 Pascual, Rafael J. "Material Monsters and Semantic Shifts: Agníðendr, Grendel, and the Giant-Man Distinction." SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, vol. 24, 2021, pp. 1-32, https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.24.2021.1-32.
Week 10 (1 Dec) Lines 1677 – 1768 Required reading 4 Neidorf, Leonard (2013–2014). “Lexical Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Old English Poetry“. SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English 20, s. 7–48.
Week 11 (8 Dec) Lines 2417 – 2565 Presentation 6 Robinson, Fred C. "Elements of the Marvelous in the Characterization of Beowulf: A Reconsideration of the Textual Evidence." Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope, edited by Robert B. Burlin and Edward B. Irving, Jr., University of Toronto Press, 1974, pp. 119-37.
Presentation 7 Greenfield, S. B. "A Touch of the Monstrous in the Hero or Beowulf Re-Marvellized." English Studies, vol. 63, no. 4, 1982, pp. 294-300.
Week 12 (15 Dec) Lines 2729 – 2751; 2794 – 2808; 2813 – 2820; 3007b – 3075, Presentation 8 Neidorf, Leonard, and Chenyun Zhu. "The Germanic Onomasticon and the Etymology of Beowulf’s Name." Neophilologus, vol. 106, no. 1, 2022, pp. 109-26.
Presentation 9 Shippey, T. A. "Names in Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon England." The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment, edited by Leonard Neidorf, D. S. Brewer, 2014, pp. 23-45.
Week 13 (5 Jan) Lines 3137 – 3182 Presentation 10 C. T. Berkhout: „Brief Note. Beowulf 3123b: Under the Malice-Roof“ (1973)
Week 14 (make-up for Week 4; tbs) Presentation 11 B. Mitchell: „Literary Lapses: Six Notes on Beowulf and Its Critics“, The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 43, No. 169 (Feb., 1992), pp. 1-17.
Week 15 (make-up for Week 7; tbs) Required Reading 5: Fulk, R. D. (2014). „Beowulf and Language History“. In: The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment. Ed. Leonard Neidorf. D. S. Brewer, Cambridge, s. 19–36.
Primary text: Jack, George (ed.) (1994): Beowulf. A Student Edition. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
Recommended Modern English translations Crossley-Holand, Kevin (ed. and trans.) (1984): Beowulf. In: The Anglo-Saxon World. An Anthology. Oxford Unversity Press: Oxford and New York, pp. 74-154. Donaldson, E. Talbot (trans.) (1975): Beowulf. In: A Norton Critical Edition: Beowulf ... Background and Criticism. Ed. by J.F. Tuso. Repr. (1966). New York and London. Heaney, Seamus (2000): Beowulf: A New Translation. Faber and Faber: London. Morgan, Edwin (1952): Beowulf. A Verse Translation into Modern English. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.
Recommended secondary reading: Bjork, R. E. (2020). The reception history of Beowulf. SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, 25(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.25.2020.1-19 Donahue, Ch (1965). „Beowulf and Christian Tradition: A Reconsideration from a Celtic Stance.“ Garmonsway, G. N. – Simpson, J. – Davidson, H. E.: Beowulf and Its Analogues (1968) Lapidge, M. (1982). „Beowulf, Aldhelm, The Liber Monstrorum and Wessex“. Neidorf, L. (ed.) (2014). The Dating of Beowulf : A Reassessment. Cambridge: Brewer. Robinson, F. C. (1985). Beowulf and the Appositive Style. Tolkien, J. R. R. (1936). Beowulf. The Monsters and the Critics.
Poslední úprava: Čermák Jan, prof. PhDr., CSc. (19.09.2025)
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Primary text: Jack, George (ed.) (1994): Beowulf. A Student Edition. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
Recommended Modern English translations Crossley-Holand, Kevin (ed. and trans.) (1984): Beowulf. In: The Anglo-Saxon World. An Anthology. Oxford Unversity Press: Oxford and New York, pp. 74-154. Donaldson, E. Talbot (trans.) (1975): Beowulf. In: A Norton Critical Edition: Beowulf ... Background and Criticism. Ed. by J.F. Tuso. Repr. (1966). New York and London. Heaney, Seamus (1999): Beowulf: A New Translation. Faber and Faber: London. Morgan, Edwin (1952): Beowulf. A Verse Translation into Modern English. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.
Recommended secondary reading: Bjork, R. E. (2020). The reception history of Beowulf. SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, 25(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.25.2020.1-19 Donahue, Ch (1965). „Beowulf and Christian Tradition: A Reconsideration from a Celtic Stance.“ Garmonsway, G. N. – Simpson, J. – Davidson, H. E.: Beowulf and Its Analogues (1968) Lapidge, M. (1982). „Beowulf, Aldhelm, The Liber Monstrorum and Wessex“. Neidorf, L. (ed.) (2014). The Dating of Beowulf : A Reassessment. Cambridge: Brewer. Page, R. I. (1970): Life in Anglo-Saxon England. B.T. Batsford: London. Robinson, F. C. (1985). Beowulf and the Appositive Style. Tolkien, J. R. R. (1936). Beowulf. The Monsters and the Critics.
Poslední úprava: Čermák Jan, prof. PhDr., CSc. (19.09.2024)
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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) Poslední úprava: Čermák Jan, prof. PhDr., CSc. (19.09.2024)
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