While watching this weekend’s AFL Grand Final between West Coast and Collingwood, listen out for ‘action’ and ‘digression’ in the commentary. RICHARD WAINWRIGHT September 26, 2018 Why AFL commentary works the same way as Iron Age epic poetry Erin Sebo, Flinders University and Patrick Allington, Flinders University Like epic poets, AFL commentators improvise in short phrases, not sentences, because it creates vivid images of fast action.
Thar she blows! Michael Rosskothen September 3, 2018 How we showed Homer’s Odyssey is not pure fiction, with a little help from Facebook Murilo Da Silva Baptista, University of Aberdeen; Pedro Jeferson Miranda, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (UEPG), and Sandro Ely de Souza Pinto, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (UEPG) Analyse the great quest of Odysseus with a little 21st-century know how and it’s fascinating what you find out.
Íslendingasögur by Gilwellian - Árni Magnússon Institute October 22, 2015 Outlaws, trolls and berserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the Icelandic sagas Rebecca Merkelbach, University of Cambridge There are some surprising parallels between the characters in ancient Viking-era stories and modern popular culture.