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Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes, Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination

Author

Estes; Heide

Year

2017

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Ecocriticism

Language

English

Pages

208

ISBN

978-9-08964-944-7

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30-Aug-2024

Keywords

Language & Literature

Description

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 that 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.

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