Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination

• Tác giả: Heide Estes
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 9089649441
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 810820 American literature in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource 1 electronic resource 208 pages)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 197524
• Chủ đề: 1. Altenglisch; 2. Ecocriticism; 3. Ecocriticism; 6. Ecology in literature; 8. English literature--History and criticism--Old English, ca. 450-1100; 9. Landscape in literature; 10. Landscapes in literature; 12. Literatur; 13. Nature in literature; 16. Umwelt

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

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.