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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. 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. Heide Estes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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Author

Estes, Heide

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9789048528387

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Nature, Literary Fiction