Manchester University Press
Conclusion
Abstract
The Conclusion to the book summarises the book’s larger arguments, asserting that medieval literature has much to contribute to our understanding of emotion in medieval historical contexts. It weighs the relative usefulness of the theoretical and methodological strategies investigated in the book. In seeking to answer the questions raised in the book about words, bodies, performativity, audiences and change, it also identifies emerging issues that the analysis has raised. The Conclusion also foregrounds the importance of various kinds of intertextual relationships for the creation and transmission of existing and innovating generic emotional norms, as successive generations of authors and audiences explore genre-related emotion schemas as effective in communicating and producing feelings. Whether they work to maintain or subvert or whether they innovate and alter existing models, emotions in literature move, educate and inform English audiences about changing ways to be human across the medieval era.
Abstract
The Conclusion to the book summarises the book’s larger arguments, asserting that medieval literature has much to contribute to our understanding of emotion in medieval historical contexts. It weighs the relative usefulness of the theoretical and methodological strategies investigated in the book. In seeking to answer the questions raised in the book about words, bodies, performativity, audiences and change, it also identifies emerging issues that the analysis has raised. The Conclusion also foregrounds the importance of various kinds of intertextual relationships for the creation and transmission of existing and innovating generic emotional norms, as successive generations of authors and audiences explore genre-related emotion schemas as effective in communicating and producing feelings. Whether they work to maintain or subvert or whether they innovate and alter existing models, emotions in literature move, educate and inform English audiences about changing ways to be human across the medieval era.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Abbreviations x
- Introduction 1
- 1 Words, taxonomies and translations 48
- 2 Embodiment and action 94
- 3 Performativity and performance 135
- 4 Audiences and affectivity 179
- 5 Fifteenth-century feelings 228
- Conclusion 273
- Bibliography 281
- Index 314
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Abbreviations x
- Introduction 1
- 1 Words, taxonomies and translations 48
- 2 Embodiment and action 94
- 3 Performativity and performance 135
- 4 Audiences and affectivity 179
- 5 Fifteenth-century feelings 228
- Conclusion 273
- Bibliography 281
- Index 314
