Emotions of Amazement in Old English Hagiography: ÆLfric's Approach to Wonder, Awe and the Sublime

ISBN-13: 9783631872178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Francisco Javier Minaya Gomez

Opis

This monograph examines three aesthetic emotions in AElfric's Lives of Saints. Drawing on recent research on emotional communities, this research combines methods from Cognitive Sciences and other studies on early Medieval English language and literature in order to explore AElfric's usage of the terms in the lexical domain of amazement. The main aim of this study is to identify preferred modes of expression that would reveal a series of emotional rules in the context of AElfric's emotional community. Looking into AElfric's usage of this lexical domain and how he depicts emotion dynamics in these texts, 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.

Spis treści

Aesthetic emotions - emotions of amazement - Old English hagiography - Cognitive Science - Emotional Communities - Ælfric - Lives of Saints

O autorze

Dr. Francisco Javier Minaya Gómez is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), and a teacher of early Medieval English literature. His research focuses on the conceptualization and expression of emotions in Old and Middle English language and literature.