How heroes work in epic tales, old english tales and literature, the legend of Beowulf, and how these devices are used in the tales of Tolkien.

Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

How heroes work in epic tales, old english tales and literature, the legend of Beowulf, and how these devices are used in the tales of Tolkien. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Beowulf and the Epic Hero

In this subject, students investigate the development of literature for children from the traditional literatures of myth and legend, folk and fairy tales, through early publishing, to the emergence of genres of adventure, fantasy and realism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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