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Hearing voices: getting more out of reading Old English textsHearing voices: getting more out of reading Old English textsJohn Lye’s online guide to analysing literary texts is tailored for the use of university students, but teaches techniques that work at every level of criticism.
Work your way through John Lye’s online guide. Use the guidelines he gives for analysing poetry to make some notes about the Old English poem ‘Deor’, in a translation by Stephen Pollington, given below. Post your analysis to the Hearing voices II forum.
You might also like to look at the Critical Reading website created by Professor Barry Laga at Mesa State University. This looks at both literary criticism and critical theory.
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