Water in medieval literature : an ecocritical reading

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Water in medieval literature : an ecocritical reading

Albrecht Classen

(Ecocritical theory and practice)

Lexington Books, c2018

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-308) and index

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内容説明

Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the world of literature. The great relevance of water also in the Middle Ages might come as a surprise for many readers, but the evidence assembled here confirms that also medieval poets were keenly aware of the importance of water to sustain all life, to provide understanding of life's secrets, to mirror love, and to connect the individual with God. In eleven chapters major medieval European authors and their works are discussed here, taking us from the world of Old Norse to Irish and Latin literature, to German, French, English, and Italian romances and other narratives.

目次

Introduction - Theoretical, Methodological, and Interdisciplinary Reflections Chapter One - Water, Literature, Symbolism, and Epistemology in the Pre-Modern Age: A Pan-European Perspective Chapter Two - Water and Voyages in the Goliardic Epic Poem of Herzog Ernst: Transformation and Maturation through Travel into the Mysterious Orient Chapter Three - The Experience with Water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: Spiritual Epistemology in the Western Seas Chapter Four - Water Worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: The Search for Happiness in a Fluid World Chapter Five - Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: The Religious Transformation Through Water Chapter Six - Water Symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: The Material and the Spiritual Dimension of Water in a Middle High German Grail Romance Chapter Seven -Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical The Flowing Light of the Divinity: Spirituality, Liquidity, and Epistemology Chapter Eight - Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1351): Narrative Explorations of Tears, Water in Fountains, Wells, and in the Mediterranean Chapter Nine - Water as Markers of Identity, Space, and Time in the Icelandic Saga Njal's Saga: Travel, War, and Water in the World of Old Norse Literature Chapter Ten - Water Creatures, Wells, the Other Life, Hybridity, and the Aquatic: The Myth of Melusine in the Verse Romance by Jean d'Arras Chapter Eleven - Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron and other Problems with Water: Flooding, Voyaging, Sexual Violence, and Refuge Epilogue

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