Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature write by Carolyne Larrington. This book was released on 2024-04-16. Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last twenty-five years, the ‘history of emotion’ field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence of sidelining literature — in particular secular literature — as evidence-source and object of emotion study. Secular literature, whether fable, novel, fantasy or romance, has been understood as prone to exaggeration, hyperbole, and thus as an unreliable indicator of the emotions of the past. The aim of this book is to decentre history of emotion research and asks new questions, ones that can be answered by literary scholars, using literary texts as sources: how do literary texts understand and depict emotion and, crucially, how do they generate emotion in their audiences — those who read them or hear them read or performed?
Anglo-Saxon Emotions
Anglo-Saxon Emotions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo-Saxon Emotions write by Alice Jorgensen. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Anglo-Saxon Emotions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Research into the emotions is beginning to gain momentum in Anglo-Saxon studies. In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions (a major theme in other fields and a key field in interdisciplinary studies), this volume brings together established scholars, who have already made significant contributions to the study of Anglo-Saxon mental and emotional life, with younger scholars. The volume presents a tight focus - on emotion (rather than psychological life more generally), on Anglo-Saxon England and on language and literature - with contrasting approaches that will open up debate. The volume considers a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, examines the interplay of emotion and textuality, explores how emotion is conveyed through gesture, interrogates emotions in religious devotional literature, and considers the place of emotion in heroic culture. Each chapter asks questions about what is culturally distinctive about emotion in Anglo-Saxon England and what interpretative moves have to be made to read emotion in Old English texts, as well as considering how ideas about and representations of emotion might relate to lived experience. Taken together the essays in this collection indicate the current state of the field and preview important work to come. By exploring methodologies and materials for the study of Anglo-Saxon emotions, particularly focusing on Old English language and literature, it will both stimulate further study within the discipline and make a distinctive contribution to the wider interdisciplinary conversation about emotions.
Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature write by Megan G. Leitch. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.
Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature
Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature write by Frank Brandsma. This book was released on 2015. Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend.
Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion
Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion write by Glenn D. Burger. This book was released on 2019-04-11. Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a new, intersectional investigation of affects, feelings, and emotions in late Middle English literature.
