Apocalyptic Ecologies

From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature

AvShannon Gayk

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-06
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226837611

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Shannon Gayk is professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Image, Text, and Religious Reform in Fifteenth Century England.

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"There is a deep beauty in the way Gayk unwraps . . . the tensions and imperfections of our engagement with the environment, both then and now."

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Introduction: Learning to DieExcursus: A Brief History of Medieval Climate ChangePart I. Edenic Ecologies1. Being Earth: Performing the “Fayre Processe” of Creation2. “This Deadly Life”: Elegy and Ecological Care after EdenPart II. Everyday ApocalypseExcursus: On Plague, Precedent, and the Punishment Paradigm3. Becoming Beholden: Floods, Fires, and Acts of Attention4. Ordinary Apocalypses: Wondrous Weather in Early EnglandPart III. Apocalyptic Ecologies5. Fifteen Ways of Looking: Signs at the End of the WorldEpilogue: Learning to Love: Ecological Attention and the Work of CareAcknowledgmentsNotesAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex