| Description |
1 electronic resource (208 pages) |
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Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures |
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Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Anglo-Saxon studies, Old English language and literature, Ecotheory, Ecocriticism, Environmental studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Nature in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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Landscapes in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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Literary theory.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecology in literature.
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Landscapes in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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Altenglisch
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Ecocriticism
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Literatur
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Umwelt
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English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
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Nature in literature.
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Landscape in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019666923 |
| ISBN |
9789048528387 |
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9048528380 |
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