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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452823203321

Autore

Scarborough Connie

Titolo

Inscribing the environment [[electronic resource] ] : ecocritical approaches to medieval Spanish literature / / Connie Scarborough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, c2013

ISBN

3-11-026503-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; ; 13

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture, , 1864-3396 ; ; 13

Disciplina

860.9360902

Soggetti

Spanish literature - To 1500 - History and criticism

Nature in literature

Ecocriticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references (p. 157-169) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Nature untamed -- pt. 2. Nature tamed -- pt. 3. Nature stylized.

Sommario/riassunto

Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts.Applications of the concepts of ecocriticism to medieval literature, however,are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain with an eye to authors' depictions, realistic and symbolic, of their natural surroundings. It shows how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors' perceptions of the environment and established literary models.