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New Thinking: Beowulf

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out how the latest research in linguistic databases and games software is shedding light on the Anglo Saxon poem.

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough takes a look at the latest research shaping our understanding of the great Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf. She鈥檒l be finding out about the insights that digital approaches are bringing to the tale of gold-hoarding dragons, sword-wielding heroes and murderous fenland beasties. We discover what video games and grammar have to tell us about Old English literature.

Andrew Burn Andrew Burn is Professor of English, Media and Drama at University College London鈥檚 Institute of Education. He is director of ReMap a research centre that focuses on media arts, creative practice and play and games. He has published work on many aspects of the media, including young people's production of digital animation, film and computer games. Further information about his research can be found at: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=ANBUR40 and www.andrewburn.org.

Roxanne Taylor is a research student at the University of Manchester where she is completing her PhD. She is working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project on argument structure and genitive modification in Old English noun phrases.

Beowulf Retold is on Radio 3 on Sunday 30th October and is available on 大象传媒 Sounds for the following 28 days.

This podcast was made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI.

Producer: Ruth Watts

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