Fr. 136.00

Nature and Medieval Literature

Anglais · Livre Relié

Expédition généralement dans un délai de 3 à 5 semaines

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An account of the varying responses to nature found in major medieval literature.

Nature and Medieval Literature investigates medieval writers who explore natural themes but also critique the human world through the patterns of nature. Starting with a consideration of ecological criticism in general, it shows how Welsh, French, and English authors deal differently with the Peredur/Perceval story. It then embarks on full-chapter studies of the treatment of nature in a range of major authors and texts: the work of Chaucer, then the Scottish Chaucerians, Dunbar and Henryson, the medieval and early modern outlaw myths (mostly about Robin Hood), the medieval English romances, and finally, a range of medieval English lyrics. In each case, it is shown how the texts at times represent the actual forces and patterns of the natural and animal worlds, but how in other cases--and sometimes overlapping with an understanding of nature itself--authors can use the natural and animal world as a basis for a critique of the human and increasingly urban world of the medieval period.

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Stephen Knight is retired honorary research professor at the University of Melbourne, and formerly distinguished research professor at Cardiff University.

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This book describes how medieval authors represent the natural world – both seeing it in terms of natural and animal forces and meanings, but also as a different domain that can cast a revealing and critical light on the human and urban world.

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