Anglo-Saxon Emotions: Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and Culture

320 Pages·2016·3.614 MB·

by  Alice Jorgensen, Frances McCormack, Jonathan Wilcox

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Studies in Early medieval
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Reading the Heart in old English language,
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Contents
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6 An Embarrassment of Clues: Interpreting Anglo-Saxon Blushes 91
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8 Learning about Emotion from the Old English Prose Psalms
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9 Those Bloody Trees: The Affectivity of Christ 143
Frances McCormack
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10 Emotion and Gesture in Hroðgar’s Farewell to Beowulf 163
Kristen Mills
11 Ne Sorga: Grief and Revenge in Beowulf 177
Erin Sebo
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Foreword
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literary corpus underpinned by an interdisciplinary intellectual approach; it is
both reflexive and closely analytical. Its approach and its content offers much
that is new for scholars of Anglo-Saxon England, and provides an insight for
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those working on other periods and places, or who study human emotions from
different perspectives, into the richness and diversity of the earliest evidence
written in English for the human experience of emotions.
JOANNA STORY
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