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Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes : ecotheory and the environmental imagination / Heide Estes
(Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures)
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press |
| Year | [2017] |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| 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 |
| Notes | 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. Examining Old English poems, such as 'Beowulf' and 'Judith', as well as descriptions of natural events from the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more Open Access Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 11, 2018) |
| Authors | *Estes, Heide |
| Subjects | LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books LCSH:Nature in literature LCSH:Ecocriticism LCSH:Landscapes in literature LCSH:Ecology in literature BISACSH:POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval FREE:Ecocriticism FREE:Ecology in literature FREE:Landscapes in literature FREE:Nature in literature FREE:Altenglisch FREE:Ecocriticism FREE:Literatur FREE:Umwelt FREE:English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism All Subject Search FREE:Nature in literature FREE:Landscape in literature FREE:Ecocriticism |
| Classification | DC23:821.7 |
| ID | ED00001403 |
| ISBN | 9789048528387 |