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

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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....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Estes, Heide (Heide Ruth) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Series:Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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