This course will use the digital archive of Beowulf materials assembled in the Electronic Beowulf CD-ROM set. The collection includes full facsimiles of the manuscript, the eighteenth-century Thorkelin transcripts, the earliest and most important nineteenth-century collations, and the first edition of the poem. It also includes an electronic edition, transcript, comprehensive glossary, and current bibliography. Powerful search tools facilitate countless innovative, individualized, investigations of the text. We will meet in CB 343 unless we require the facilities in the collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH) in Young Library, 3-52. There is no printed textbook. Instead, we will use the edition and glossary from the Electronic Beowulf, accessible from the Syllabus page of the course website. The complete Users' Guide to Electronic Beowulf, a bibliography, and supplementary articles are available at http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm. There are three major requirements for the course: active participation in discussion of assigned topics and translations in class and online (30 percent); two oral presentations on assigned sections of the text (30 percent); and one formal research paper (40 percent), taking advantage of the image archive and the search facilities of the Electronic Beowulf CD set, available in RCH and in Young Library CD collections. The research paper is due no later than 6 pm on the last day of class, 30 April. Incompletes are strongly discouraged. Readings: January
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