In this thesis I analyse T. S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"" in an ecocritical manner. By making use of contemporary theory on the relation between human and environment I shed new light on the...Show moreIn this thesis I analyse T. S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"" in an ecocritical manner. By making use of contemporary theory on the relation between human and environment I shed new light on the conceptualization and representation of the environment in ""The Waste Land."" I do this by close reading descriptions of the environment in the poem, analyzing the struggle between the material and the spiritual, and analyzing language and agency.Show less
Medieval heroes act according to a certain set of values. These values have changed from the heroic ethos in the Early Middle Ages to the chivalric code in the Late Middle Ages. In this thesis,...Show moreMedieval heroes act according to a certain set of values. These values have changed from the heroic ethos in the Early Middle Ages to the chivalric code in the Late Middle Ages. In this thesis, this change is made clear by using the texts of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green KnightShow less
