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Record Nr.

UNISA996379044103316

Autore

Estes Heide (Heide Ruth)

Titolo

Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes : Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination / / Heide Estes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2018

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

90-485-5140-4

90-485-2838-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Collana

Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures

Disciplina

810/820

Soggetti

Nature in literature

Ecocriticism

Landscapes in literature

Ecology in literature

Altenglisch

Literatur

Umwelt

English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism

Landscape in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.