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Meeting the Other in "The Seafarer" and "The Ruin"

Hilyer, John Layne
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1589384180858157

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2020, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, English.
This paper reads two Old English poems through an ecocritical lens. Primarily, I identify the need to see translation—as literary interpretation—of Other languages and environments as a site of relation to a subject. Throughout this essay the subject “Other” refers to both language and environment built by human and natural agents along the border of their worlds. I read The Seafarer as a space of meeting between the land- dweller and sea-dweller, then focus on The Ruin as a scene of transient human presence. A new space to feel the loss of environment—both human and natural—opens while meeting the Other. In the conclusion, I offer three examples of engagement with ecological loss including both modern and contemporary sources as the beginning of an ecocritique with the terms described in this thesis. Loss ought not place the poet in the posture of defeat, nor avoid translation in transactional terms—that is to say, by putting a price tag on the earth. Rather, I suggest reorientation of the responsibility of the poet toward meeting, speaking, and seeing the Other.
Miriamne Krummel, PhD (Advisor)
Heide Estes, PhD (Committee Member)
Environmental Studies; Linguistics; Literature

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  • Hilyer, J. L. (2020). Meeting the Other in "The Seafarer" and "The Ruin" [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1589384180858157

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hilyer, John. Meeting the Other in "The Seafarer" and "The Ruin". 2020. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1589384180858157.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hilyer, John. "Meeting the Other in "The Seafarer" and "The Ruin"." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1589384180858157

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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