Prisca Augustyn

The Semiotics of Fate, Death and the Soul in Germanic Culture

The Christianization of Old Saxon

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The ninth-century Old Saxon Heliand gospel yields seminal sets of words for fate and the self that paint the cultural background into which Christianity was introduced. The Heliand contains robust mythopoetic links to an Indo-European tradition, which were conducive to the synthesis of ancient mythological scenarios with the dogma of the immortal soul. Peirce's semiotic informs the linguistic analysis and promotes the ethnophilosophical description of the formation of belief, while the linguistic data inform the cultural analysis and substantiate the different levels of description in the semiotic paradigm. Through the combination of historic… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8204-5277-7
EAN: 9780820452777
Produktnummer: 19042861
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 198 S.
Masse: H16.0 cm x B23.7 cm x D1.6 cm 412 g
Gewicht: 412
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

The Author: Prisca Augustyn is Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. She received an M.A. in linguistics from the University of Georgia, Athens, and a Ph.D. in Germanic linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley.