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02896aam a2200493Ii 4500 001 860E2C16580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170303t20172017ne b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9089649441 020 $a 9789089649447 035 $a (OCoLC)974847581 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d QGK $d IUP $d IUL $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d OCL $d TXI $d SILO 050 4 $a PN1065 $b .E88 2017 082 04 $a 810/820 100 1 $a Estes, Heide $q (Heide Ruth), $e author. 245 10 $a Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes : $b ecotheory and the environmental imagination / $c Heide Estes. 246 30 $a Ecotheory and the environmental imagination 264 1 $a Amsterdam : $b Amsterdam University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a 208 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Nature in literature. 650 0 $a Ecocriticism. 650 0 $a Landscapes in literature. 650 0 $a Ecology in literature. 650 7 $a Altenglisch $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4112501-0 650 7 $a Ecocriticism $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4790005-2 650 7 $a Literatur $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4035964-5 650 7 $a Umwelt $g Motiv $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4121809-7 650 7 $a English literature $y Old English, ca. 450-1100 $x History and criticism. $2 idszbzes 650 7 $a Nature in literature. $2 idszbzes 650 7 $a Landscape in literature. $2 idszbzes 650 7 $a Ecocriticism. $2 idszbzes 650 7 $a Ecocriticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901428 650 7 $a Ecology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901557 650 7 $a Landscapes in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01899802 650 7 $a Nature in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034680 830 0 $a Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017023930.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=860E2C16580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search