Date of Award
2005
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Medieval Studies
First Advisor
Dr. Jana K. Schulman
Second Advisor
Paul E. Szarmach
Third Advisor
Rand Johnson
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
An examination of the linguistic background and literary conceptions of anger in Old English. The first point of analysis will be the vocabulary of used to discuss anger and its manifestations in Old English prose didactic texts, particularly homilies and translations from Latin materials. Subsequent chapters will discuss anger as a literary phenomenon, first with respect to its use in the Old English hagiographic poem The Passion of St. Juliana and then Beowulf. The goal of these two chapters collectively is to outline the social use ( or misuse) of anger, and Christian understandings of how anger must be controlled or avoided.
Recommended Citation
Fox, Hilary E., "‘ÞÆT Is Yrre': The Construction and Use of Anger in Anglo-Saxon Literature" (2005). Masters Theses. 4194.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/4194