UID:
edocfu_9959053760902883
Format:
1 online resource (208 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-485-5140-4
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90-485-2838-0
Series Statement:
Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes 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.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-8964-944-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789048528387
