| Beowulf Research Help Please...It's British Literature [message #44729] |
Wed, 07 September 2011 12:54  |
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 Robyn Sue
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The category says nothing is off topic, so...
I need some research help with finding academic websites in the UK about paganism in Beowulf. I got the .uk down, but I need the British equivalent to .edu; I think it's .ac, but I'm not sure. I just need help with being pointed in the right direction as to where I might be able to find supporting material.
The paper is due in October, so I've got time. Five to seven pages is nothing. *whimper*
Am I crazy if listen to the voices in my little world? :D
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| Re: Beowulf Research Help Please...It's British Literature [message #44730 is a reply to message #44729 ] |
Wed, 07 September 2011 13:30  |
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Maren
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| Robyn Sue wrote on Wed, 07 September 2011 12:54 |
The category says nothing is off topic, so...
I need some research help with finding academic websites in the UK about paganism in Beowulf. I got the .uk down, but I need the British equivalent to .edu; I think it's .ac, but I'm not sure. I just need help with being pointed in the right direction as to where I might be able to find supporting material.
The paper is due in October, so I've got time. Five to seven pages is nothing. *whimper*
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Yes, .ac.uk is the equivalent domain to .edu. Do you know about Google's domain-specific search? You can just put .ac.uk in the "search within a site or domain" field and then try some different search terms in the upper boxes.
Intute is a great collection of subject guides compiled by librarians from several British universities...but I've just seen that they lost their funding and will be phasing it out in the next few years.  Anyway, they only stopped updating in July 2011, so most of the links should still work, but I did a quick search for Beowulf and only two of the results were actually on .ac.uk sites. You could maybe find some general info on paganism that way, though.
Also, ask your librarian! There may be one who specializes in English and/or history and/or religion, but even if there isn't I'm sure they've encountered students from the same class in the past and might know just where to steer you. Good luck!
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| Re: Beowulf Research Help Please...It's British Literature [message #44779 is a reply to message #44732 ] |
Sat, 10 September 2011 19:30 |
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Is there a reason you're looking particularly for British academic websites? There are plenty of English professors in the United States who specialize in medieval English literature. (In fact, the Tolkien Professor Corey Olsen has done at least one podcast on Beowulf, if I remember correctly.)
If you've found a discrepancy in Beowulf, you probably need a good annotated edition. An annotated edition of a work will give you lots of information about the work itself: different versions that exist, parts that may be lost, how different translators have translated different bits, etc. Also, a good annotated edition often has a good bibliography, too, which can be useful for looking up other resources.
"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard
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| Re: Beowulf Research Help Please...It's British Literature [message #44829 is a reply to message #44824 ] |
Tue, 13 September 2011 00:43 |
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Robyn Sue
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| blondviolinist wrote on Mon, 12 September 2011 22:01 |
| Robyn Sue wrote on Mon, 12 September 2011 12:36 |
It's a British Literature class which falls under English so I need to use MLA. My instructor hasn't said what citation format to use, but I would think MLA. I've only has to use APA once and that was for my General Psychology class last year. I do have access to JSTOR. And I think I found an article or something that might help. I need three outside sources for my paper. So hopefully I can find something soon.
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No, no, no! I wasn't talking about citation formats. (Though if you're writing an English paper, of course you use MLA. Music uses Turabian or Chicago Manual of Style.) JSTOR and the MLA thingymajig are searchable databases of thousands of academic articles. I use it to read the academic articles I'm assigned for classes, as well as to do research on the various topics I write on. I probably download an average of two to three articles per week from JSTOR... but I am a grad student.
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Oh, okay. Hehe.  Still, I did get one article from JSTOR. Hopefully it'll help me. *crosses fingers* 
Some of my mom's papers she's done for her school had her use APA when it was a literature or English class. It was strange.
Am I crazy if listen to the voices in my little world? :D
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| Re: Beowulf Research Help Please...It's British Literature [message #44842 is a reply to message #44841 ] |
Tue, 13 September 2011 12:37 |
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Robyn Sue
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Okay. I admit that I am (was) ignoring the articles that had the Christian perspective; but I will look at those too now.
I'm also discussing the verse that follows the lines that show the paganism in Beowulf. To me it seems that this verse was either added or reconstructed because it talks about their "heathen hope" and about God and the "Prince of Heaven".
If anyone would like to read my paper after it's completed, I'd be happy to email it to you (either by regular email or private messaging). If anyone does read it, I'd like to hear your critique on it.
[Updated on: Wed, 14 September 2011 12:41]
Am I crazy if listen to the voices in my little world? :D
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