Ecopoetics and the Origins of English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Siewers, Alfred K.
Ecopoetics and the Origins of English Literature.
- Published
- Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, and Ken Hiltner, eds. Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 105-20.
- Description
- Views "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Malory's "Morte Darthur," and CT through the lens of ecopoetics, contending that they all rely upon the interdependence of author, text, and audience; employ metonyms rather more than metaphors; play with "time and nontime"; and suggest that land possesses ethical subjectivity. Includes analysis of the "green world" evident in the opening lines of GP and the concern with "elvishness" in WBPT and MLT in response to the destruction of nature in KnT.
- Contributor
- Stephanie LeMenager, ed.
Teresa Shewry, ed.
Ken Hiltner, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale