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An Echo of an Echo (w/ Stephen Yandell)

An Echo of an Echo (w/ Stephen Yandell)

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In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Stephen Yandell about Beowulf and the many ways it inspired Tolkien.


Steve Yandell is a medievalist and Tolkien scholar who has been a Professor of English at Xavier University since 2003. He regularly teaches courses on both Tolkien and medieval literature, including Beowulf.


More Steve:

"A Pattern Which Our Nature Cries Out For": The Medieval Tradition of the Ordered Four in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien

Cruising Faery: Queer Desire in Giles, Niggle, and Smith

Selection from Math Son of Mathonwy, from the Mabinogi


The translations:

Tolkien - Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

Heaney - Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

Headley - Beowulf: A New Translation


Primary sources:

Tolkien - Beowulf: The Monsters and The Critics (PDF)

The Lord of the Rings

The Silmarillion


Also mentioned:

Howarth - 1066: The Year of the Conquest

Leyerle - The Interlace Structure of Beowulf


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