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...

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Published in:	Philological Quarterly Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 143 - 171
Main Author:	NORCROSS, KATHERINE R.
Format:	Article
Published:	Department of English, University of Iowa Spring2017
Subjects:	Christ & Satan (Poem) Old English language Religious poetry Christians Laments Greenfield, Stanley B.
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