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Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lehigh University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611461688
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Genesis B and the Comedic ImperativeDDC classification:
  • 829.1
LOC classification:
  • PR205 -- .G67 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Deposition of a Dame -- Chapter II: Comedy, Wit, Tropology, Allegory -- Chapter III: Adamic Resolve -- Chapter IV: Adamic Failure -- Chapter V: Father of Lies -- Chapter VI: "God was Himself a Warlord" -- Chapter VII: 'No Fiend Here in the Realm' -- Chapter VIII: DOM is Darker and Deeper -- Chapter IX: The BODA and Gottschalk -- Chapter X: Adam and Eve and the Light -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.
Summary: Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative argues that the Old English (from Old Saxon) poem Genesis B does not present, as some scholars assert, an unorthodox view of the Fall of Adam and Eve but that the poem reflects the comedic "happy ending" that characterizes much medieval Christian literature: the eventual attainment of Heaven.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Deposition of a Dame -- Chapter II: Comedy, Wit, Tropology, Allegory -- Chapter III: Adamic Resolve -- Chapter IV: Adamic Failure -- Chapter V: Father of Lies -- Chapter VI: "God was Himself a Warlord" -- Chapter VII: 'No Fiend Here in the Realm' -- Chapter VIII: DOM is Darker and Deeper -- Chapter IX: The BODA and Gottschalk -- Chapter X: Adam and Eve and the Light -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative argues that the Old English (from Old Saxon) poem Genesis B does not present, as some scholars assert, an unorthodox view of the Fall of Adam and Eve but that the poem reflects the comedic "happy ending" that characterizes much medieval Christian literature: the eventual attainment of Heaven.

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