Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780521030601
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; History: World; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medieval; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100; English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism; History / General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; General
First sentence: If it is permissible to define literature, with a certain rhetorical flourish, as a mirror of society, it is nevertheless a more or less distorting mirror depending on the conscious or unconscious desires of the collective soul which is examining itself - depending, more particularly, on the interests, prejudices, sensibilities and neuroses of the social groups responsible for making the mirror and holding it up to society, or at least that part of society capable of seeing, that is, of reading.