The Storied Matter of the Greenwood in the More-Than-Human World

This article brings posthumanist and new materialist perspectives to bear on the enmeshment of “the human” with among materialities greenwood in early Robin Hood ballads, focusing Monk. The suggests that medieval outlaw tales offer ecocriticism a site within literature not only challenges deconstructs prevailing notions human exceptionalism anthropocentrism, but also portrays forest as storied place, what Wendy Wheeler calls “meaning-bearing field agency,” imbued interacting stories both animate inanimate life, such deer hunted by his outlaws, less obvious beings, famous Trysting Tree.