appeal to both metaphorical and literal understandings of exile. Patrick Conner adopts a New Historicist approach to the poems in the Exeter Book by reading them alongside guild statutes produced at Exeter. In doing so, he argues that The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and all contain elements that refer to The Riming Poem, Resignation A Resignation B exile, salvation, and spiritual rewards in terms of capital. Thus Conner concludes that the to perpetuate, to guarantee, and to strengthen the social elegies ‘once functioned relationships necessary to the production of a monastic economic hegemony. Stanley examination of Anglo-Saxon poetry provides crucial reading Greenfield’s toward our understanding of exile through the period. In his 1955 article ‘The Formulaic Expression of the Theme of in Anglo-Saxon followed Francis ‘Exile’ Poetry’, Greenfield identification of repeating words and phrases indicative of patterns in Magoun, Jr.’s grammatical-metrical structure. was to further explore Greenfield’s aim ‘verbal formulas’ as they relate to poetic themes, in this instance focusing on the theme of exile. He demonstrated found that four aspects of exile are repeatedly expressed by Anglo-Saxon poets: status, deprivation, state of mind and movement. He acknowledged that these are not the only aspects of exile to be found in Old English poetry, but argued through the presentation of numerous key phrases that these features of exile received special emphasis by multiple poets of the age, particularly and The Wanderer, The Seafarer The Lament. Wife’s In 1953, Greenfield had already considered the role of exile as a sub-theme in ‘The Theme of Spiritual Exile in here focused on how, rather than why, Christ I’. His argument exile was incorporated as a theme. Greenfield argued that is primarily concerned Christ I with celebrating the Nativity, combining the sense of joy at arrival with that of Christ’s sorrow for spiritual exile from Heaven and God. Greenfield identified five man’s instances of the subtheme of exile within expulsion from Paradise, despair after Christ I: the Fall, exiles in Limbo awaiting the Harrowing of Hell, the scattering of the flock after
appeal to both metaphorical and literal understandings of exile. Patrick Conner adopts a New Historicist approach to the poems in the Exeter Book by reading them alongside guild statutes produced at Exeter. In doing so, he argues that The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Riming Poem, Resignation A and Resignation B all contain elements that refer to exile, salvation, and spiritual rewards in terms of capital. Thus Conner concludes that the elegies ‘once functioned to perpetuate, to guarantee, and to strengthen the social relationships necessary to the production of a monastic economic hegemony. Stanley Greenfield’s examination of Anglo-Saxon poetry provides crucial reading toward our understanding of exile through the period. In his 1955 article ‘The Formulaic Expression of the Theme of ‘Exile’ in Anglo-Saxon Poetry’, Greenfield followed Francis Magoun, Jr.’s identification of repeating words and phrases indicative of patterns in grammatical-metrical structure. Greenfield’s aim was to further explore ‘verbal formulas’ as they relate to poetic themes, in this instance focusing on the theme of exile. He demonstrated found that four aspects of exile are repeatedly expressed by Anglo-Saxon poets: status, deprivation, state of mind and movement. He acknowledged that these are not the only aspects of exile to be found in Old English poetry, but argued through the presentation of numerous key phrases that these features of exile received special emphasis by multiple poets of the age, particularly The Wanderer, The Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament. In 1953, Greenfield had already considered the role of exile as a sub-theme in ‘The Theme of Spiritual Exile in Christ I’. His argument here focused on how, rather than why, exile was incorporated as a theme. Greenfield argued that Christ I is primarily concerned with celebrating the Nativity, combining the sense of joy at Christ’s arrival with that of sorrow for man’s spiritual exile from Heaven and God. Greenfield identified five instances of the subtheme of exile within Christ I: expulsion from Paradise, despair after the Fall, exiles in Limbo awaiting the Harrowing of Hell, the scattering of the flock after
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