id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt qz20sq90p1w Marjorie Housley Queer Time and the Ethics of Emotion in Medieval North Atlantic Heroic Literature 2019 .txt text/plain 377 13 31 The fourth and final chapter examines how the spatiality of fear functions alongside processes of thinking and knowing, bringing the mind in proximity with possible futures; by linking the emotional to the embodied, readers engage affectively with the often-fantastical traumas experienced in heroic literature. Reading heroic texts from English, Irish, and Scandinavian literary traditions as figurations of a historical imaginary, this dissertation focuses on negative affects like anger and fear to examine how feelings illuminate a dialectic between nostalgia for a constructed past and concern about a dreaded future. cache/qz20sq90p1w.txt txt/qz20sq90p1w.txt