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887574
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Estes, Heide, (Heide Ruth)
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Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes : : ecotheory and the environmental imagination /\ Heide Estes.
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam :: Amsterdam University Press,, [2017]
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, ©2017.
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Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures
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1 online resource (208 pages)
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9048528380
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: 9789048528387
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9089649441
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9789089649447
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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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.
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecology in literature.
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Landscapes in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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Altenglisch
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Ecocriticism
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecology in literature.
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English literature-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- History and criticism.
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Landscape in literature.
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Landscapes in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
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Literatur
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Nature in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Umwelt
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| Dewey Classification
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821.7
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PN1065.E78 2017eb
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| Parallel Title
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Ecotheory and the environmental imagination
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