Water in Medieval Literature: An Ecocritical Reading (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

by Albrecht Classen (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2017

  $43.55

  This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.