| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 196 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Evolution of the Anglo-Saxon Devil -- Literature and Cultural Archaeology -- Devil as Tempter -- Demonic Instigation in Patristic Theology -- Demonic Instigation in Narrative Literature -- Vercelli Book and the Devil's Arrows -- AElfric -- Role of the Devil -- Range of Narrative Functions -- Life of Nicholas: The Accidental Devil -- Lives of Margaret: The Devil as Saint-Maker -- Devil as Observer -- Exterior Evil and the Landscape of Old English Narrative -- Devil in Hell -- Devil of the Air -- Liturgical Devil -- Devil of the Homilies -- Space and Poetry -- Mise-en Scene in Elene and Andreas -- Devil and the Demons -- Bede's Ecclesiastical History -- Cynewulf -- Guthlac Cycle -- Dialogue and Demonology: Defining the Opponent -- Open Registers of Demonic Representation -- Devil as Idiom. |
| Summary |
"The devil is perhaps the single most recurring character in Old English narrative literature, and yet his function in the highly symbolic narrative world of hagiography has never been systematically studied. Certain inconsistencies characteristically accompany the nebulous devil in early medieval narrative accounts - he is simultaneously bound in hell and yet roaming the earth; he is here identified as the chief of demons, and there taken as a collective term for the totality of demons; he is at one point a medical parasite and at another a psychological principle." "Satan Unbound argues that these open-ended registers in the conceptualisation of the devil allowed Anglo-Saxon writes a certain latitude for creative mythography, even within the orthodox tradition. The narrative tensions resulting from the devil's protean character opaquely reflect deep-rooted anxieties in the early medieval understanding of the territorial distribution of the moral cosmos, the contested spiritual provinces of the demonic and the divine. The ubiquitous conflict between saint and demon constitutes an ontological study of the boundaries between the holy and the unholy, rather than a psychological study of temptation and sin."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Devil in literature.
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Devil in literature. |
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English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
450-1100 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dendle, Peter, 1968- Satan unbound. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001 9780802048394 (DLC) 2002392171 (OCoLC)46856529 |
| ISBN |
9781442679580 (electronic book) |
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1442679581 (electronic book) |
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1282033778 |
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9781282033771 |
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0802048390 (bound) |
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0802083692 (paperback) |
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9780802048394 |
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9780802083692 |
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