TY - BOOK ID - 77891641 TI - Greenery : ecocritical readings of late medieval English literature PY - 2010 SN - 1781701717 1847793843 9781847793843 9781781701713 0719072484 9780719072482 9780719072499 0719072492 PB - Manchester Manchester University Press DB - UniCat KW - Nature in literature. KW - English literature KW - Ecocriticism. KW - Ecological literary criticism KW - Environmental literary criticism KW - Criticism KW - Nature in poetry KW - History and criticism. KW - Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval. KW - Literature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. KW - Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval. KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Middle English. KW - Middle English literature KW - Thematology KW - Old English literature KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1200-1499 KW - Sir Orfeo. KW - earth. KW - eco-criticism. KW - fields. KW - gardens. KW - natural world. KW - sea. KW - trees. KW - wilds. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77891641 AB - Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called 'green' terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern.Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory's Morte D'Arthur, Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland's Piers Plowman. These discussions are contextualized by considering them alongside hitherto marginalized texts such as lyrics, Patience and the romance Sir Orfeo. The result is a study which reinvigorates our customary reading of late Middle English literary texts while also allows us to reflect upon the vibrant new school of eco-criticism itself. ER -