The Eighth Deadly Sin: Dejection as Passion in The Wanderer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

contributor: Wilkinson, Benjamin Matthew (author)
date: 2010-05-10T14:08:48Z (accessioned); 2010-06-18T18:58:36Z (accessioned); 2010-05-10T14:08:48Z (available); 2010-06-18T18:58:36Z (available); 2010-05-10T14:08:48Z (issued)
identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10339/14780 (uri)
description: Since the nineteenth century, the Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer has been classified as an Old English elegy. Drawing on Evagrius Ponticus's Praktikos and John Cassian's The Institutes, this thesis reexamines our traditional methods of classification for this Exeter Book poem by using an early eastern Christian version of the seven deadly sins--the deadly passions--as a new interpretive framework. (abstract)
language: en_US (iso)
publisher: Wake Forest University
subject: English literature; Medieval literature; Anglo-Saxon literature; Old English poetry; English language; Old English
title: The Eighth Deadly Sin: Dejection as Passion in The Wanderer
type: Thesis; Sigal, Gale (committeeChair); Overing, Gillian (committeeMember); Hena, Omaar (committeeMember)
degree: English (discipline)
rights: Release the entire work for access only to the Wake Forest University system for one year from the date below. After one year, release the entire work for access worldwide. (accessRights)