Biographical note: Connie Scarborough, Lubbock, USA.
Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts.Applications of the concepts of ecocriticism to medieval literature, however,are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain with an eye to authors' depictions, realistic and symbolic, of their natural surroundings. It shows how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors' perceptions of the environment and established literary models
Main description: Ecocriticism as a theoretical model primarily has been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of the tenents of ecocriticism to medieval literature is a farily recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from Medieval Spain with an eye to authors' depictions, realistic and symbolic, of their natural surroundings. It shows how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the author's perceptions of the environment and established literary models
