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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Estes, Heide (Heide Ruth) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Collection:Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.