English Discipline Khulna University, Khulna Course Plan of Classics in Translation Section: B
Week Topic/Part of a text Core material Supplementary materials
1 Beowulf: Introduction Prologue: The rise of the Danes
2 Beowulf Heorot is attacked, The hero comes to Hereot, Feast at Hereot
1. “A Comparative Study of Three Modern Translations of the Old English Lines (675- 702) of Beowulf” by Salim E. Al-Ibia 2. https://daily.jstor.org/the-question-of-race-in-
beowulf/
3 Beowulf The fight with Grendle, Celebration at Hereot, 1. “Beowulf- The Anglo Saxon Hero” by Anupama Dogra and Alka Dogra
2. “Beowulf: The Heroic, The Monstrous, and Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Leadership”
by Thomas J. Napierkowski
3. “Ne Sorga: Grief and Revenge in Beowulf” by Erin Sebo
4 Beowulf Another attack, Beowulf fights Grendle’s mother 1. “Beowulf the Orator” by Peter S. Baker 2. “Beowulf: God, Men, and Monster” by Emily
Bartz
3. “Of Hands, Halls, and Heroes: Grendel’s Hand, Hroþgar’s Power, and the Problem of stapol in Beowulf” by Larry J. Swain
5 Beowulf Another celebration at Hereot, Beowulf returns home, The dragon wakes
1. “Bravery, Honor, and Loyalty as Morals in Beowulf” by Eleanor Cory
2. “Grendel’s Mother: The Deviant Other in Beowulf” by Cheri D. Molter
3. “Place symbolism and land politics in Beowulf” by Elden S
6 Beowulf Beowulf attacks the dragon, Beowulf’s funeral 1. “Point of view and identification in Beowulf”
by Peter Richardson.
2. Re-reading Grendel’s mother: Beowulf
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and the anglo-saxon metrical charms” by Sara Frances Burdorff
3. “The foreign Beowulf and the "fight at Finnsburg" by Scott Gwara
7 The Frogs: Introduction Act I, Sc I 1. “Aristophanes' Frogs and the Contest of Homer
and Hesiod” by Ralph M. Rosen
2. “The court of Comedy: Aristophanes, rhetoric, and democracy in fifth-century Athens” by Christopher J. G.
8 The Frogs Act I, Sc I 1. “Aristophanes’ Frogs as Social and Literary
Satire” by Oya Bayiltmiş
2. https://talimenam.blogspot.com/2014/12/social -satire-in-aristophanes-frogs.html#work
9 The Frogs Act I, Sc II 1. “Politics in the Frogs of Aristophanes” by
Sheppard, J.T. & Verrall, A.W
10 The Frogs Act I, Sc II 1. Dionysos’s role in Aristophanes’ Frogs” by
Martha Habash 2.
11 The Frogs Act II 1. “The "Frogs" of Aristophanes as a type of
play” by Young, A.M.
12 The Frogs Act II 1. “The Sociolinguistics of Gender, Social Status
and Masculinity in Aristophanes” by Katherine McDonald
13 The Frogs Act II 1. Tragedy and comedy in the Frogs of
Aristophanes” by Bruce Heide
References:
Books:
1. Aristophanes. (1985). The Peace, the Birds, the Frogs. Trans. Benjamin Bickley Rogers. Massachusetts: Harvard UP.
2. Beowulf. (2009). Trans. Seamus Heaney. New York: Faber & Faber.
3. Bowi, A. M. (1993). Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy. Cambridge: CUP.
4. Michelin, A. N. (1987). Euripides and the Tragic Tradition.Wisconsin: The U of Wisconsin P.
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5. Staver, R. J. (2005). A Companion to Beowulf. Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
Articles:
1. Al-Ibia, S. E. (2016). A comparative study of three modern translations of the old english lines (675-702) of Beowulf. Journal of Arts &
Humanities. 7(2): 66-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/journal.v7i2.1337
2. Bartz, Emily. Beowulf: god, men, and monster. Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University. 10 (1).
Available at: https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/jur/vol10/iss1/1
3. Baker. P.S. (1988). Beowulf the orator. Journal of English Linguistics. 21(3)
4. Bayiltmis, Oya. (2011). Aristophanes’ Frogs as social and literary satire. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science. 1(7) 5. Burdorff, S.F. (2014). Re-reading Grendel’s mother: Beowulf and the anglo-saxon metrical charms. Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and
Renaissance Studies. 45: 91-103
6. Christopher J. G. (2015). The court of Comedy: Aristophanes, rhetoric, and democracy in fifth-century Athens. Quarterly Journal of Speech.
101(3): 574-578, DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2015.1057936. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2015.1057936 7. Cory, Eleanor. (2010). Bravery, honor, and loyalty as morals in Beowulf" (2010). Paper 3.
http://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/fall2010/3
8. Dogra, Anupama & Dogra, A. (2016). Beowulf- the anglo-saxon hero. International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL). 4 (5): 79-81. http://dx.doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0405011
9. Elden, S. (2009). Place symbolism and land politics in Beowulf. Cultural Geographies. 16 (4): 447-463.
10.Habash, M. (2002). Dionysos’s role in Aristophanes’ Frogs. Mnemosyne. 40 (1).
11.Heide, B. (1991). Tragedy and comedy in the Frogs of Aristophanes. Ramus. 20(01): 95–111. doi:10.1017/s0048671x00002848 12.Gwara, Scott. (2008). The foreign Beowulf and the "fight at Finnsburg. Traditio. 63: 185-233.
https://doi.org/10.1353/trd.2008.0004
13.Molter, C.D. (2016). Grendel’s mother: The deviant other in Beowulf. Aletheia. 1(2).
14.McDonald, K. (2016). The sociolinguistics of gender, social status and masculinity in Aristophanes. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 2 (2):
155-188. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2016-0011
15.Napierkowski, T.J. (2005). Beowulf: the heroic, the monstrous, and anglo-saxon concepts of leadership. International Journal of Public Administration. 28(5-6):503-516, DOI: 10.1081/PAD-200055208. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1081/PAD-200055208
16.Rosen, R. M. (2004). Aristophanes' frogs and the contest of Homer and Hesiod. The Transactions of the American Philological Association.134 (2): 295-322. http://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/4
17.Sebo, Erin. (2015). Ne Sorga: Grief and revenge in Beowulf. Anglo-Saxon Emotions.
18.Sheppard, J.T. & Verrall, A.W. (1910) Politics in the Frogs of Aristophanes. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 30: 249-259.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/624304 .
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19.Swain, L.J. (2016). Of hands, halls, and heroes: Grendel’s hand, Hroþgar’s power, and the problem of stapol in Beowulf. Anglia. 134(2): 260–
284. DOI 10.1515/anglia-2016-0026
20.Young, A.M. (1933). The "Frogs" of Aristophanes as a type of play. The Classical Journal. 29 (1):23-32 http://www.jstor.com/stable/3289842
21.https://daily.jstor.org/the-question-of-race-in-beowulf/
22.https://talimenam.blogspot.com/2014/12/social-satire-in-aristophanes-frogs.html#work
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