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Water in medieval literature : an ecocritical reading /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Ecocritical theory and practice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An introduction: Theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary reflections
- Water, literature, symbolism, and epistemology in the pre-modern age: a pan-European perspective
- Water and voyages in the Goliardic epic poem of Herzog Ernst: transformation and maturation through travel into the mysterious Orient
- The experience with water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: spiritual epistemology in the western seas
- Water worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: the search for happiness in a fluid world
- Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: the religious transformation through water
- Water symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: the material and the spiritual dimension of water in a Middle High German grail romance
- Mechthild of Magdeburg's mystical The flowing Light of the Godhead: spirituality, liquidity, and epistemology in medieval mysticism
- The water worlds in Boccaccio's Decameron (circa 1351): narrative explorations of tears, water in fountains, wells, and in the Mediterranean
- Water as markers of identity, space, and time in the Icelandic saga Njál's Saga: travel, war, and water in the world of old Norse literature
- Water creatures, wells, the other life, hybridity, and the aquatic dimension: the myth of Melusine in the prose romance by Jean d'Arras
- Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron and other problems with water: flooding, voyaging, sexual violence, and refuge.