Nature Speaks : : Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy / / Kellie Robertson.
What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a perverse form of anthropocentrism. And yet nature's voice proved a powerful and durable ethical...
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Robertson, Kellie, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Nature Speaks : Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy / Kellie Robertson. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (456 p.) : 10 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Middle Ages Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Citations and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Medieval Poetry and Natural Philosophy -- Part I. Framing Medieval Nature -- Chapter 1. Figuring Physis -- Chapter 2. Aristotle’s Nature and Its Discontents -- Part II. Allegorizing Nature in the Vernacular -- Chapter 3. Jean de Meun and the Rule of Necessity -- Chapter 4. Allegory Without Nature: Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de vie humaine -- Part III. Love and the Limits of Natural Reason -- Chapter 5. Chaucer’s Natures -- Chapter 6. “Kyndely Reson” on Trial: Translating Nature Aft er Chaucer -- Epilogue: Nature’s Silence: Humanism, Posthumanism, and the Legacy of Medieval Nature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a perverse form of anthropocentrism. And yet nature's voice proved a powerful and durable ethical tool for premodern writers, many of whom used it to explore what it meant to be an embodied creature or to ask whether human experience is independent of the natural world in which it is forged.The history of the late medieval period can be retold as the story of how nature gained an authoritative voice only to lose it again at the onset of modernity. This distinctive voice, Kellie Robertson argues, emerged from a novel historical confluence of physics and fiction-writing. Natural philosophers and poets shared a language for talking about physical inclination, the inherent desire to pursue the good that was found in all things living and nonliving. Moreover, both natural philosophers and poets believed that representing the visible world was a problem of morality rather than mere description. Based on readings of academic commentaries and scientific treatises as well as popular allegorical poetry, Nature Speaks contends that controversy over Aristotle's natural philosophy gave birth to a philosophical poetics that sought to understand the extent to which the human will was necessarily determined by the same forces that shaped the rest of the material world.Modern disciplinary divisions have largely discouraged shared imaginative responses to this problem among the contemporary sciences and humanities. Robertson demonstrates that this earlier worldview can offer an alternative model of human-nonhuman complementarity, one premised neither on compulsory human exceptionalism nor on the simple reduction of one category to the other. Most important, Nature Speaks assesses what is gained and what is lost when nature's voice goes silent. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. Literature and science Europe History. Nature in literature. Philosophy of nature in literature. Poetry, Medieval History and criticism. Religion and science Europe History. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh History. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017 9783110540550 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE ENGLISH 2017 9783110625264 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2017 9783110548198 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110550306 print 9780812248654 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293678 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812293678 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812293678/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Citations and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Medieval Poetry and Natural Philosophy -- Part I. Framing Medieval Nature -- Chapter 1. Figuring Physis -- Chapter 2. Aristotle’s Nature and Its Discontents -- Part II. Allegorizing Nature in the Vernacular -- Chapter 3. Jean de Meun and the Rule of Necessity -- Chapter 4. Allegory Without Nature: Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de vie humaine -- Part III. Love and the Limits of Natural Reason -- Chapter 5. Chaucer’s Natures -- Chapter 6. “Kyndely Reson” on Trial: Translating Nature Aft er Chaucer -- Epilogue: Nature’s Silence: Humanism, Posthumanism, and the Legacy of Medieval Nature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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