Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes : ecotheory and the environmental imagination /

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for peoples actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments....

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Estes, Heide (Heide Ruth) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Colección:Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.
Temas:
Nature in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Landscapes in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature dans la littérature.
Écocritique.
Paysages dans la littérature.
Literary theory.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Ecocriticism
Ecology in literature
Landscapes in literature
Nature in literature
Altenglisch
Literatur
Umwelt
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Landscape in literature.
Anglo-Saxon studies, Old English language and literature, Ecotheory, Ecocriticism, Environmental studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Imagining the sea in secular and religious poetry
  • Ruined landscapes
  • Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness
  • Animal natures
  • Objects and hyperobjects
  • Conclusion: ecologies of the past and the future.

Ejemplares similares