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Greenery : ecocritical readings of late medieval English literature / Gillian Rudd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rudd, Jill, author.
- Series:
- Manchester medieval literature and culture.
- Manchester medieval literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature in literature.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Ecocriticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed exclusivelyin the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. This book 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, it moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) that 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 that reinvigorates our customary reading of late Middle English literary texts while also allowing us to reflect upon the vibrant new school of eco-criticism itself.
- Contents:
- Preface: Green reading
- 1. Earth and world
- 2. Trees
- 3. Wilds, wastes and wilderness
- 4. Sea and coast
- 5. Gardens and fields
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Apr 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781781701713
- 1781701717
- 9781847793843
- 1847793843
- OCLC:
- 818847250
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