Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes write by Heide Estes. This book was released on 2017. Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes write by Albert Joseph McMullen. This book was released on 2015. Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study traces the cultural interplay between Irish and Old English literary landscapes. Combining an ecocritical approach to reading representations of the landscape with a comparatist perspective, each chapter shows that the landscape and the natural world were not only static motifs, but that they allow for the observation of literary influence. The first chapter investigates the political use of the landscape in Irish and Anglo-Saxon saints' Lives. I argue that the anonymous author of the Life of Cuthbert was following a common Irish hagiographic practice of using place-names to claim churches, monasteries, or lands for the writer's monastic foundation. Furthermore, Bede was aware of this agenda when he rewrote the Life of Cuthbert some twenty years later and consciously removed many of the place-names that localize Cuthbert's miracles and ministrations from the text.
Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400
Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400 write by Catherine A. M. Clarke. This book was released on 2006. Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pastoral and locus amoenus traditions in Medieval English literature, and the early mythologisation of English landscape, space and identity through pastoral topoi. In its exploration of literary representations of ideal landscapes and the production of English identity across Latin and vernacular texts from Bede to Chaucer, this study looks in particular at pastoral and locus amoenustraditions in Medieval English literature, and the early mythologisation of English landscape, space and identity through pastoral topoi. From Bede's Ecclesiastical History and its seminal interpretation of Britain as thedelightful island, the study moves through representations of landscape in Old English poetry to the exploitation of the symbolic potential of their local landscapes by regional monastic houses in twelfth- and thirteenth-century texts and pastoral conventions, performances and the idea of the city in the fourteenth century. Introductory and concluding sections form bridges to current scholarship on representations of Englishness through pastoral topoi in the Early Modern period. Catherine A.M. Clarke is Professor of English, University of Southampton.
Undoing Babel
Undoing Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Undoing Babel write by Tristan Major. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Undoing Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century.
Landscape in Children's Literature
Landscape in Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape in Children's Literature write by Jane Suzanne Carroll. This book was released on 2012-08-06. Landscape in Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces — that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children’s fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of landscape topoi from their earliest inception in medieval vernacular texts through to contemporary children's literature. The identification and analysis of landscape topoi synthesizes recent theories about interstitial space together with earlier morphological and topoanalytical studies, enabling the study of fictional landscapes in terms of their physical characteristics as well as in terms of their relationship with contemporary texts and historical precedents. Ultimately, by providing topoanalytical studies of other children’s texts, Carroll proposes topoanalysis as a rich critical method for the study and understanding of children’s literature and indicates how the findings of this approach may be expanded upon. In offering both transferable methodologies and detailed case-studies, this book outlines a new approach to literary landscapes as geographical places within socio-historical contexts.
