English Literature 12

I just wanted to post some of my reflections on Friday’s class ‘teaching round circle session’.
First of all, I am enjoying the relaxing atmosphere of the class, especially the Friday tea. I think this is great, although I think from now on we will try and conduct our Friday sessions in the student lounge…
I wanted [...]

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Beowulf Study Notes:
These notes are not nearly as detailed as the Chaucer ones from previous post, as I merely did marginalia while reading (defacing my textbook by writing in the margins…), but I think they are more realistic in their expectations for your studying.
General:
vocabulary:
epic, Kenning, caesura, assonance, alliteration (see pg. 15 of your text, or [...]

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Genre– the epic : this involves several things:
1. a hero who does heroic things (usually represents a battle between good and evil) these things are usually pretty big and overblown, such as Beowulf’s fighting Grendel’s mother without his sword, or being able to go into the underwater world for quite some time without drowning…still trying [...]

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Hi everyone,
I hope you all like the new look of the blog and that it inspires you…I hope to change the look every once in a while to keep things fresh. I am still wondering about ways to integrate blogging into our literature environment. This is a major drain on my brain these days, as [...]

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Hi everyone…
As promised, here are my ‘reading notes’ from Chaucer’s ‘Prologue’. Please do not freak out, as this is not the intense detail you would need to know for an exam . If they help your studying, please use them, gratis ; if they hinder you or stress you out, ignore them. They are [...]

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