Greenery: Ecocritical readings of late medieval English literature (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture) - Tapa blanda

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Rudd, Gillian

 
9780719072499: Greenery: Ecocritical readings of late medieval English literature (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
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ISBN 10: 0719072492 ISBN 13: 9780719072499
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2010

Sinopsis

Greenery blends current ecological concerns with informed analysis of medieval literature to arrive at new readings of late medieval English texts, some canonical (eg Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Chaucer’s Knight’s and Franklin’s Tales) some less frequently studied (lyrics, Patience, Sir Orfeo).

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Gillian Rudd is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool

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Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called 'green' terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern.

Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory's Morte D'Arthur, Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland's Piers Plowman. These discussions are contextualized by considering them alongside hitherto marginalized texts such as lyrics, Patience and the romance Sir Orfeo. The result is a study which reinvigorates our customary reading of late Middle English literary texts while also allows us to reflect upon the vibrant new school of eco-criticism itself.

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Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called green terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern.Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory s Morte D Arthur, Chaucer s Knight s and Franklin s Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland s Piers Plowman. These discussions are contextualized by considering them alongside hitherto marginalized texts such as lyrics, Patience and the romance Sir Orfeo. The result is a study which reinvigorates our customary reading of late Middle English literary texts while also allows us to reflect upon the vibrant new school of eco-criticism itself.

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Editorial
Manchester University Press
Año de publicación
2010
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ISBN 10 
0719072492
ISBN 13 
9780719072499
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Número de páginas
230
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