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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jorgensen, Alice
• McCormack, Frances
• Wilcox, Jonathan

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• Anglo-Saxon Emotions, 2015, p.1-17

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This introduction presents an overview of key concepts present in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a snapshot of the study of Anglo-Saxon emotions at an exciting moment of emergence. It showcases scholars who have made important pioneering contributions. The book directly confronts the central questions of what Anglo-Saxonists can gain from and contribute to contemporary developments in the study of emotions, especially in cognitive science, and addresses specifically how modern readers can understand and respond to the emotions encoded in Old English poems. In modern English, one can distinguish between emotion in general and particular emotions, and between emotions, moods and dispositions. It marks the emergence of emotion as a major theme, alongside the closely linked topics of identity, subjectivity and the mind. Individual contributions bring together questions of poetic convention with folk psychology; spontaneous bodily signals with social meaning; emotion scripts with translation; and the emotions texts describe with the emotions they provoke.