Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes : Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination / / Heide Estes
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| Autore: |
Estes Heide (Heide Ruth)
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| Titolo: |
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes : Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination / / Heide Estes
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| Pubblicazione: | Leeds, UK : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 810/820 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nature in literature |
| Ecocriticism | |
| Landscapes in literature | |
| Ecology in literature | |
| English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 | |
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| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-003-69085-8 |
| 1-04-079153-0 | |
| 90-485-5140-4 | |
| 90-485-2838-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910320755703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.