IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1649: Medieval Ecocriticisms, I: Wind, Water, Weather
Thursday 5 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Ecocriticisms |
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Organiser: | Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York |
Moderator/Chair: | Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York |
Paper 1649-a | 'Westron Wynde': Blustery Emotions in Middle English Lyrics (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English |
Paper 1649-b | The Hydrosocial Medieval: Water, Weather, and Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Science, Social History |
Abstract | Ecocriticism is a relatively new subfield of inquiry in the humanities, burgeoning in response to climate science. Interpreting literary texts from a perspective that foregrounds medieval weather conditions invites re-reading relationships between humans and the natural world as well as among humans. These three papers, in their focus on wind, weather, and water, demonstrate that the way that medieval writers thought about the natural world was complex and varied. |