Counter-Empathy and Elegiac Critique in the Old English Christ and Satan.
The article discusses counter-empathy and elegiac critique of Old English religious poetry Christ and Satan. Topics include trend of Old English religious poetry by writing the tropes of Germanic heroism into Christian history; structural similarities to elegy in Satan's laments pointed by literary...
| Publicado en: | Philological Quarterly Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 143 - 171 |
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Department of English, University of Iowa
Spring2017
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| Sumario: | The article discusses counter-empathy and elegiac critique of Old English religious poetry Christ and Satan. Topics include trend of Old English religious poetry by writing the tropes of Germanic heroism into Christian history; structural similarities to elegy in Satan's laments pointed by literary critic Stanley B. Greenfield; and development of the story in Anglo-Saxon exile terms providing natural basis for Christian instruction. |
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