Listed in: English, as ENGL-76
Howell D. Chickering (Section 01)
This course has as its first goal the rapid mastery of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) as a language for reading knowledge. Selected prose and short poems, such as The Wanderer and The Battle of Maldon, will be read in the original, with emphasis on literary appreciation as well as linguistic analysis. After that, our objectives will be an appreciation of Beowulf in the original, through the use of the instructor’s dual-language edition, and an understanding of the major issues in interpreting the poem. Students will declaim verses and write short critical papers. Three class hours per week.
Spring semester. Professor Chickering.
Section 01
M 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM JOCH 21
W 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM JOCH 21
F 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM JOCH 21
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Guide to Old English | Wiley-Blackwell | Bruce Mitchell and Fred Robinson | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Word-hoard An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary | Yale University Press | Stephen A. Barney | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition | Anchor (Random House) | ed. and trans. by Howell D. Chickering | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature | Cambridge Univ. Press | Edited by Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Ecclesiastical HIstory of the English People | Penguin Classics | trans. Leo Sherley-Price | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary | University of Toronto Press | J.R. Clark-Hall | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.