Albrecht Classen

Water in Medieval Literature (eBook, ePUB)

An Ecocritical Reading

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498539852
• Artikelnr.: 49259346

Autorenporträt

Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Inhaltsangabe

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