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



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Autore: Estes Heide (Heide Ruth) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes : Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination / / Heide Estes Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam University Press, 2018
Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 pages)
Disciplina: 810/820
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto non controllato: Anglo-Saxon studies, Old English language and literature, Ecotheory, Ecocriticism, Environmental studies
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 90-485-5140-4
90-485-2838-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910320755703321
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Serie: Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.