Nature and Medieval Literature
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| Title: | Nature and Medieval Literature |
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| Description: | This book begins by considering ecocritical approaches to literary texts and then moves to a discussion of the ways in which Welsh, French and English authors recount the Peredur/Perceval story. The study then embarks on full-chapter studies of the treatment of nature in a range of major authors and texts, including the work of Chaucer, the Scottish Chaucerians (Dunbar and Henryson), the medieval and early modern outlaw myths (particularly those concerning Robin Hood), the medieval English romances, and finally a selection of medieval English lyrics. The book argues that while some texts represent the actual forces and patterns of the natural and animal worlds, other texts use the natural and animal worlds both as a way of understanding nature itself and as a basis for a critique of the human and increasingly urban world of the medieval period. |
| Authors: | Stephen Knight |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Nature in literature, English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism, French literature--History and criticism |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, NATURE / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book begins by considering ecocritical approaches to literary texts and then moves to a discussion of the ways in which Welsh, French and English authors recount the Peredur/Perceval story. The study then embarks on full-chapter studies of the treatment of nature in a range of major authors and texts, including the work of Chaucer, the Scottish Chaucerians (Dunbar and Henryson), the medieval and early modern outlaw myths (particularly those concerning Robin Hood), the medieval English romances, and finally a selection of medieval English lyrics. The book argues that while some texts represent the actual forces and patterns of the natural and animal worlds, other texts use the natural and animal worlds both as a way of understanding nature itself and as a basis for a critique of the human and increasingly urban world of the medieval period. |
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| ISBN: | 9781837721023 9781837721047 |
