Art imitates life so the mimetic theory stipulates. By examining the literature a culture produces, we may infer how they lived and what they valued. The Anglo-Saxons valued Christian values, the idea of fate, alienation, love, marital bonds, narration, and the after life. At least, these are some of the values we can tag through poetry of the time period. Although the Anglo-Saxon might indeed be hard pressed to articulate philosophy, Nussbaum is correct when noting in Cultivating Humanity that, "Philosophical questioning arises wherever people are."
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ReplyDeleteAs a team, we didn’t understand what your synthesis was explaining. You have a very good point in how Anglo-Saxons use their literature to describe their culture, and you had a good explanation on what Anglo-Saxon literature was based on, but you didn’t answer the question of how Anglo-Saxons and Greeks experienced conflict between their cultures. It is clear how Anglo-Saxon culture combines into their literature, but what did it have as an effect on the Greeks?