Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes : ecotheory and the environmental imagination - 九大コレクション

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Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes : ecotheory and the environmental imagination

責任表示	Heide Estes
著者	Estes, Heide
本文言語	English (英語)
出版者	Amsterdam University Press
出版年	2017-
出版地	Amsterdam, Netherlands
関連情報	シリーズ Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures
概要	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.続きを見る
目次	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.
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