New Thinking: Beowulf
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What Are the Building Blocks of Beowulf?
Roxanne: I was just thinking about how, kind of what my research study on Beowulf was found is that sometimes you've kind of got two slots if you like. Andrew: Maybe it comes down again to some kind of aspect of language, the way in which language indicates some dramatic point of view in the text. Roxanne: What a game can do is put the whole thing into the second person, instead of he, he, and she,. It's you, the player, you are Beowulf, you are Grendel, you areGrendel's mother. That's sort of quite, quite radical, reversal of point of view is something that video
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