Apocalyptic Ecologies : From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature

Name: Apocalyptic Ecologies
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226837604
Price: 16550 KES
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ISBN: 9780226837604

by Professor Shannon Gayk

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0226837602

ISBN-13 9780226837604

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 6th, 2024

Print length 304 Pages

Weight 567 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

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A meditative reflection on what medieval disaster writing can teach us about how to respond to the climate emergency. When a series of ecological disasters swept medieval England, writers turned to religious storytelling for precedents. Their depictions of biblical floods, fires, storms, droughts, and plagues reveal an unsettled relationship to the natural world, at once unchanging and bafflingly unpredictable. In Apocalyptic Ecologies, Shannon Gayk traces representations of environmental calamities through medieval plays, sermons, and poetry such as Cleanness and Piers Plowman. In premodern disaster writing, she recovers a vision of environmental flourishing that could inspire new forms of ecological care today: a truly apocalyptic sensibility capable of seeing in every ending, every emergency a new beginning waiting to emerge.

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