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Emotions of amazement in Old English hagiography: AElfric's approach to wonder, awe and the sublime (1st edition)

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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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Peter Lang
3631882599 / 9783631882597
eBook (EPUB)
20/06/2022
Germany
English
218 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
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