Emotions of Amazement in Old English Hagiography Ælfric's Approach to Wonder, Awe and the Sublime.
This monograph examines three aesthetic emotions in Ælfric's Lives of Saints. Looking into Ælfric's usage of this lexical domain and his depiction of emotion dynamics, this monograph shows how the emotion family of amazement is central to the hagiographical genre, and it highlights importa...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Frankfurt a.M. :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,
2022.
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| Series: | Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature Ser.
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| Summary: | This monograph examines three aesthetic emotions in Ælfric's Lives of Saints. Looking into Ælfric's usage of this lexical domain and his depiction of emotion dynamics, this monograph shows how the emotion family of amazement is central to the hagiographical genre, and it highlights important emotion-regulation scripts that operate in these texts. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783631882481 3631882483 |