TY  - GEN
AU  - Estes,Heide
TI  - Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
SN  - 9789089649447
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Literary theory
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Anglo-Saxon studies
KW  - Ecotheory
KW  - Old English language and literature
KW  - Ecocriticism
KW  - Environmental studies
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25945/1/1004136.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25945/1/1004136.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25945/1/1004136.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36456
ER  -