The Signum Scene
The Signum Scene podcast covers Signum University news, Signum Symposia, and creator chats from Signum Plaza—engaging talks on literature for fans and scholars. Featuring event updates, faculty chats, MA student thesis presentations, and interviews with leading academics and creators, it offers something for everyone.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 137
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Mythmoot V: 05 - JRR Tolkien's Guidelines for Translation and Sir Orfeo
A translator is not free: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Guidelines for Translation and Their Application in Sir
Orfeo
Curtis Weyant
While bemoaning his struggles with translating the Middle English poem “Pe…
00:29:12 |
Wed 25 Jul 2018
Mythmoot V: 06 - Narrative Functions of Sickness in Egils Saga Skallagrimssonar and Laxdaela Saga
Getting Sick of It: Narrative Functions of Sickness in Egils Saga Skallagrímssonar and Laxdæla
Saga
Laura Lee Smith
Many characters die in the course of Egils Saga Skallagrímssonar and Laxdæla Sa…
00:19:50 |
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Mythmoot V: 07 - Crossing Frontiers from the Home front to the Battlefront
The Bitter Watches of the Night: From Anne Elliot to Éowyn of Rohan—Crossing Frontiers from
the Home front to the Battlefront
Jennifer Ewing
J. R. R. Tolkien is often accused of either not having…
00:41:37 |
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Mythmoot V: 04 - The composite authorship of Andreas
The composite authorship of Andreas
David Maddock
The Old English poem “Andreas” has long been a source of controversy in the Anglo-Saxon scholarly community. Although it bears no runic signature, …00:27:29 |
Thu 12 Jul 2018
Mythmoot V: 03 - The Postmodern Kaleidoscope of London Below in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere
The Postmodern Kaleidoscope of London Below in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Chris Yokel
In Neil Gaiman’s first novel Neverwhere, an ordinary Londoner named Richard Mayhew is ushered into the fantastica…00:30:46 |
Thu 12 Jul 2018
Mythmoot V: 02 - Tolkien’s Crossing of Revisionary Boundaries
Tolkien’s Crossing of Revisionary Boundaries
Chris Gavaler and Nathaniel Goldberg
Some novelists revise their stories by restarting them. Others revise by revealing new things about them. Still oth…00:27:56 |
Thu 12 Jul 2018
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