Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Spanish Literature
Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of the concepts to medieval literature, however, are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain, showing how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors’ perceptions of the environment and established literary models.

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Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Spanish Literature
Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of the concepts to medieval literature, however, are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain, showing how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors’ perceptions of the environment and established literary models.

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Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Spanish Literature

Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Spanish Literature

by Connie Scarborough
Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Spanish Literature

Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Spanish Literature

by Connie Scarborough

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Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of the concepts to medieval literature, however, are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain, showing how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors’ perceptions of the environment and established literary models.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110309393
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 03/15/2013
Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , #13
Pages: 195
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.02(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Connie Scarborough, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ecocritical Sensibilities and Spanish Medieval Texts 1

Part I Nature Untamed

Chapter 1 The Forest of Corpes Poema de Mio Cid 11

Chapter 2 Desert and Mountains Vida de Santa María Egipciaca Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos Vida de San Milldn de la Cogolla 25

Chapter 3 The Sea: Libro de Alexandre and the Cantigas de Santa Maria 43

Part II Nature Tamed

Chapter 4 The Urban Garden Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea 63

Chapter 5 Fields Cantigas de Santa Maria Milagros de Nuestra Señora Poema de Mio Cid Libro de Alexandre 79

Part III Nature Stylized

Chapter 6 Spiritual locus amoenus Milagros de Nuestra Señora 93

Chapter 7 Sensual locus amoenus Razón de amor con los denuestos del agua y el vino 115

Chapter 8 Idealized Countryside: Laus Hispaniae in Poema de Fernán González and Estoria de España 133

Conclusions 149

Works Cited 157

Illustrations 171

Index 185

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