Inscribing the environment : ecocritical approaches to medieval Spanish literature / Connie Scarborough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scarborough, Connie.

Series:

Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture, 1864-3396 ; 13

Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--To 1500--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Nature in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts.Applications of the concepts of ecocriticism to medieval literature, however,are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain with an eye to authors' depictions, realistic and symbolic, of their natural surroundings. It shows how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors' perceptions of the environment and established literary models.

Contents:

pt. 1. Nature untamed

pt. 2. Nature tamed

pt. 3. Nature stylized.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 157-169) and index.

ISBN:

9783110265033

3110265036

OCLC:

851970316