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The Children of Anger and Revenge: Managing Emotion in Early English Literature.

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正題名/作者:	The Children of Anger and Revenge: Managing Emotion in Early English Literature./
作者:	Park, Justin Germain.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	223 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-03A.
標題:	English literature. -
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ISBN:	9798538107674

The Children of Anger and Revenge: Managing Emotion in Early English Literature.
Park, Justin Germain.

The Children of Anger and Revenge: Managing Emotion in Early English Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 223 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2020.

In the West, the oldest form of anger management is revenge. In other words, the discourse of revenge is a means to control or guide the expression of anger and determine when anger has reached its proper end. However, revenge has frequently been mistaken as the natural expression of anger rather than a means to guide it. As a result of this naturalization of anger-as-revenge, other discourses which are called on to manage anger respond to the principles of revenge and not anger itself. In other words, revenge has shaped what we think anger is and has determined our response to it.This dissertation will examine literary instances of various discourses engaging the principles of revenge in the name of anger management. The specific strategies and techniques other discourses, such as forgiveness, patience, empathy, and games, deploy in seeking to manage anger are shaped by the principles of revenge, or what I will call the talionic economy. The talionic economy (from lex talionis or the law of retribution) comprises the principles of evaluation, debt, exchange, and equivalence. Because of the conflation of anger with revenge, the discourses which seek to manage anger respond, instead, to these principles.Thus, Christian forgiveness manages anger by reframing anger's source, the experience of injury, from a personal debt needing to be repaid (as in revenge), to a debt with divine entanglements. The discourse of patience, likewise, takes the principle of evaluation and seeks to move the evaluating perspective from the individual to that of a more cosmic vantage point. The discourse of empathy pushes on the idea of equivalence, suggesting that one person's experience is automatically equivalent to another's. And the discourse of games tries to take the whole structure of the talionic economy and shift it into what I will call (after game theorists) game-space, where actions and emotions have prescribed limits. In each case, the discourse seeking to manage anger engages the talionic economy, managing revenge.The first chapter will establish the limits and nuances of revenge as a means to manage anger itself. I will focus on two Old English poems: The Battle of Maldon and Beowulf. From these texts an understanding of the principles of revenge will emerge, one that remains relevant in Middle English and Early Modern texts as well. The second chapter, staying with Old English, will examine how forgiveness is imagined to contain and manage anger. I will look at the sermons of AElfric of Eynsham wherein can be seen the prominent role of debt in responding to anger. The third and fourth chapters will take Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales as their primary text. Throughout, I will explore how the discourses of patience and games are deployed to manage anger. Here, we can see how evaluation, as a principle of revenge, is strategically targeted by both discourses, each seeking to shift evaluatory frameworks. Finally, in the coda, I will turn to Shakespeare and the discourse of empathy. Empathy is frequently lauded as a means to manage anger today. Shakespeare, however, in exploring empathy's assumption of equivalence between subjects, reveals empathy's tendency to establish more boundaries than it breaks down.This dissertation seeks to show how the frequent conflation between anger and revenge has shaped the representations of what we might call anger management in early English literature. In doing this, I hope to show how the discursive tools for managing anger imagined in these texts reproduce the logic of revenge.

ISBN: 9798538107674Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Anger management

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