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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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. |
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Open Access EbpS |
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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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Nature dans la littérature.
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Écocritique.
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Paysages dans la littérature.
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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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Anglo-Saxon studies, Old English language and literature, Ecotheory, Ecocriticism, Environmental studies. |
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Ecotheory and the environmental imagination |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017] 9789089649447 (DLC) 2017466435 |
| ISBN |
9789089649447 hardcover |
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9089649441 hardcover |
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9789048528387 ebook |
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9048528380 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000062590646 |
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