UID:
kobvindex_HPB1020031366
Format:
1 online resource (209 pages).
ISBN:
9789048528387
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9048528380
Series Statement:
Eastern Buddhist Voices
Content:
Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's 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:
Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgments/Dedication --
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1. Introduction --
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2. Imagining the Sea in Secular and Religious Poetry --
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3. Ruined Landscapes --
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4. Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness --
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5. Animal Natures --
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6. Objects and Hyperobjects --
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7. Conclusion: Ecologies of the Past and the Future --
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Works Cited --
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Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Estes, Heide. Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes : Ecotheory and the Anglo-Saxon Environmental Imagination. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2017 ISBN 9789089649447
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9789048528387
