A Study of Anglo-saxon Literature from a Spatial Perspective

About This Novel

This book comprehensively examines the literary works of the Anglo-Saxon period from the perspective of modern space theory. It takes different levels of space: natural space, social space, psychological space and spiritual belief space as its warp, and different types of texts such as heroic epics, lyric poetry, saint biographies, and wisdom literature as its weft. It explores the spatial concepts and landscape characteristics elaborated in key texts. The study focuses on the interaction between different groups of characters and their places of residence, revealing that Anglo-Saxon writers were actively committed to transforming the abstract and broad concept of space into concrete spatial representations such as places, landscapes, regions, and boundaries that can be experienced and perceived. The research breaks the barriers between space, place and landscape, fully examines the interoperability and uniqueness between the three, and thereby digs out the spatial construction characteristics presented in the literary texts of this period and the social and cultural information they carry. This book contributes to the development of space discussions for early medieval texts, and to a certain extent enriches the application of spatial theory in domestic and foreign literary studies.

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