AMAZEMENT and FEAR in Guthlac A and Guthlac B: Emotional Communities, Polysemy and Models of Sainthood

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DOI :

https://doi.org/10.20420/Phil.Can.2023.598

Mots-clés :

vieil anglais, crainte, peur, émotions, Guthlac

Résumé

Cet article explore le rôle de la peur et de l’effroi dans Guthlac A et le rôle de la crainte dans Guthlac B. Sur la base de théories récentes sur les émotions, d'études sur l'adaptation de sources latines en vers en vieil anglais et d'études sur les communautés émotionnelles au Moyen Âge, le but de cet article est d'examiner comment ces deux auteurs en vieil anglais interprètent l'expérience émotionnelle dans ces poèmes et comment ils construisent une dimension émotionnelle effective dans leurs textes qui est liée aux idées doctrinales. Cette recherche souligne comment chacun de ces auteurs préfère une réponse émotionnelle à d'autres et comment ils utilisent également un langage figuré pour transmettre une série de messages doctrinaux qui sont construits autour d'une appréciation de la vertu sainte et des connaissances laïques et religieuses, et une peur de la contamination morale qui est déclenché par le démoniaque.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Francisco Javier Minaya Gómez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Francisco Javier Minaya Gómez est professeur adjoint à la Faculté des lettres de l’Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, où il enseigne la littérature anglaise médiévale et la traduction. Son domaine d’expertise est la conceptualisation et l’expression des émotions dans la langue et la littérature anglaises anciennes à partir d'une approche cognitive. Il a publié sur l’expérience esthétique dans la poésie en vieil anglais, et ses publications récentes se sont concentrées sur l'expression des émotions dans le corpus de textes hagiographiques en vieil anglais.

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Publiée

2023-05-31

Comment citer

Minaya Gómez, F. J. (2023). AMAZEMENT and FEAR in Guthlac A and Guthlac B: Emotional Communities, Polysemy and Models of Sainthood. Philologica Canariensia, 29, 237–257. https://doi.org/10.20420/Phil.Can.2023.598

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