Format:
VI, 189 S.
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Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource De Gruyter eBook-Paket Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN:
9783110309393
Series Statement:
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 13
Content:
Biographical note: Connie Scarborough, Lubbock, USA.
Content:
Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts.Applications of the concepts of ecocriticism to medieval literature, however,are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain with an eye to authors' depictions, realistic and symbolic, of their natural surroundings. It shows how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors' perceptions of the environment and established literary models
Content:
Ecocriticism as a theoretical model primarily has been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of the tenents of ecocriticism to medieval literature is a farily recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from Medieval Spain with an eye to authors' depictions, realistic and symbolic, of their natural surroundings. It shows how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the author's perceptions of the environment and established literary models.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Introduction. Ecocritical Sensibilities and Spanish Medieval Texts; Part I - Nature Untamed; Chapter One.The Forest of Corpes: Poema de Mio Cid; Chapter Two. Desert and Mountains: Vida de Santa Maria Egipciaca, Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos, and Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla; Chapter Three. The Sea: Libro de Alexandre and the Cantigas de Santa Maria; Part II - Nature Tamed; Chapter Four. The Urban Garden: Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea; Chapter Five. Fields: Cantigas de Santa Maria, Milagros de Nuestra Señora, Poema de Mio Cid, and Libro de Alexandre; Part III: Nature Stylized
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Chapter Six. Spiritual locus amoenus: Milagros de Nuestra SeñoraChapter Seven. Sensual locus amoenus: Razón de amor con los denuestos del agua y el vino; Chapter Eight. Idealized Countryside: Laus Hispaniae in Poema de Fernán González and Estoria de España; Conclusions; Works Cited; Illustrations; Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110265033
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110309393
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110309430
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Scarborough, Connie L., 1954 - Inscribing the environment Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter, 2013 ISBN 3110309394
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110309393
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Spanisch
;
Literatur
;
Natur
;
Umwelt
;
Geschichte 1200-1500
;
Ecocriticism
;
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9783110265033
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