Adam J. Goldwyn

Byzantine Ecocriticism (eBook, PDF)

Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Embraces ecofeminism for the study of Byzantine literature and culture

Examines depictions of women, romance, and nature in Byzantine literature to deconstruct underlying hegemonies

Analyzes the ideologies of power and control between women, men, and the environment

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319692036
• Artikelnr.: 52996100

Autorenporträt

Adam J. Goldwyn is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature and English at North Dakota State University, USA. He is co-translator of The Allegories of the Iliad (2015), a paraphrase of the Homeric epic by the twelfth-century Byzantine grammarian John Tzetzes.

Inhaltsangabe

.- 1 Byzantine Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis.- 2 Zoomorphic and Anthomorphic Metaphors in the "Proto-Romance" Digenis Akritis.- 3 Rape, Consent, and Ecofeminist Narratology in the Komnenian Romances.- 4 Witches and Nature Control in the Palaiologan Romances and Beyond.- 5 Byzantine Posthumanism: Autpoiesis, Sympoiesis, and an Eco-Ethics of Sustainability.

Rezensionen

"This book is a pathbreaking study in the field of Byzantine literature. ... the book is meant to be accessible also to a nonspecialist audience. ... All in all, Goldwyn's volume on Byzantine ecocriticism is a successful attempt to apply an innovative approach to medieval Greek romance and to show how meaningful modern ideologies and theoretical elaborations can be in interpreting premodern texts." (Rachele Ricceri, Speculum, Vol. 94 (4), October, 2019)