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Wild : tales from early medieval Britain / Amy Jeffs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeffs, Amy, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- Nature in literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- English literature--Middle English.
- English literature--Old English.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Riverrun, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun: these are wild landscapes of a world almost familiar. In Wild, Amy Jeffs journeys - on foot and through medieval texts - from landscapes of desolation to hope, offering the reader an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home. The seven chapters, entitled Earth, Ocean, Forest, Beast, Fen, Catastrophe, Paradise, open with fiction and close with reflection. They blend reflections of travels through fen, forest and cave, with retelling of medieval texts that offer rich depictions of the natural world. From the Old English elegies to the englynion and immrama of the Celtic world - stories that largely represent figures whose voices are not generally heard in the corpus of medieval literature: women, outcasts, animals"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Prologue: wayless
- Earth: the lament of Hos
- Ocean: the wanderer and the hall
- Forest: the wildman, the waterfall and the wind
- Beast: the mountain on my back
- Fen: treasure guardian
- Catastrophe: portents and parchment
- Paradise: the message in the sand
- Appendix: the Exeter Book reborn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1529424232
- 9781529424232
- OCLC:
- 1296116584
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