Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2013
Abstract
The paper gives an overview of the two basic types of portrayal of the forest in Later Medieval vernacular literature, terre gaste and locus amoenus, with examples from Czech, French and English. With reference to the concepts of topoi (loci communes) and horizon of expectation as related to genre and literary experience, it discusses the typical traits of these opposite concepts across language boundaries as well as possible reader expectations and responses to these two disparate fashions in which natural environment could be cast.