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Byzantine Ecocriticism, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance
The New Middle Ages Series
Author: Goldwyn Adam J.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Byzantine Ecocriticism:
Keywords
reading Byzantine Literature in the Anthropocene; medieval ecocriticism; zoomorphic metaphor in Digenis Akritis and Chaucer; anthropomorphic metaphor in Digenis Akritis and Chaucer; portrayal of women in Byzantine romance; gender in Byzantine depictions of hunting; rape in Byzantine literature; ecofeminism and Byzantine literature; sexual violence in Rhodanthe and Dosikles; Sexual violence in Drosilla and Charikles; The Tale of the Shepherdess; ecofeminist reading of medieval romance; witches in Palaiologan Romances; social construct of ideology through translation; intersection of feminism and environmentalism; Medea as feminist representation; Livistros and Rodamni; Byzantine Achilleid; posthumanism in Byzantine literature; Achilles as patriarchal symbol
Publication date: 05-2018
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 12-2017
Support: Print on demand
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Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by which such control was exerted; and the anxieties surrounding its limits. Adam Goldwyn thus demonstrates the ways in which intersectional ecocriticism, feminism, and posthumanism can be applied to medieval texts, and illustrates how the legacies of medieval and Byzantine environmental practice and ideology continue to be relevant to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.
.- 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.
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.