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Title
Emotional alterity in the medieval North Sea world / Erin Sebo, Matthew Firth, Daniel Anlezark, editors.
ISBN
9783031339653 (electronic bk.)
3031339657 (electronic bk.)
9783031339646
3031339649
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 284 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-33965-3 doi
Call Number
PN682.E48
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.02
Summary
This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable, physiologically impossible, or simply unfathomable in modern social contexts. The intent of such episodes is not always clear; medieval texts rarely explain emotional responses or their motivations. The implication is that the meanings communicated by such emotional display were so obvious to their intended audience that no explanation was required. This raises the question of whether such meanings can be recovered. This is the task to which the contributors to this book have put themselves. In approaching this question, this book does not set out to be a collection of literary studies that treat portrayals of emotion as simple tropes or motifs, isolated within their corpora. Rather, it seeks to uncover how such manifestations of feeling may reflect cultural and social dynamics underlying vernacular literatures from across the medieval North Sea world. Erin Sebo is Associate Professor of Early English Literature and Language at Flinders University, Australia. Matthew Firth is Associate Lecturer in Medieval History and Literature at Flinders University, Australia. Daniel Anlezark is the McCaughey Professor of Early English Literature and Language at the University of Sydney, Australia.
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Includes index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 29, 2023).
Series
Palgrave studies in the history of emotions.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783031339646
Chapter 1: Emotional Alterity in the Medieval Northern Sea World
Chapter 2: Grotesque Emotions in Old Norse Literature: Swelling Bodies, Spurting Fluids, Tears of Hail
Chapter 3: fr orbirni sv mjok at hann grtr: Emotionality in the Sagas of East Iceland
Chapter 4: On the Wild Side: Impossible Emotions in Medieval German Literature
Chapter 5: In an Overfurious Mood: Emotion in Medieval Frisian Law and Life
Chapter 6: The Vasa Mortis and Misery in Solomon and Saturn II
Chapter 7: De Profundis: Sadness and Healing
Chapter 8: The Hagiographers of Early England and the Impossible Humility of the Saints
Chapter 9: Rage and Lust in the Afterlives of King Edgar the Peaceful
Chapter 10: Shrink Not Appalled from My Great Sorrow: Translating Emotion in the Celtic Revival.
