Theocritus and Things Material Agency in the Idylls
Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of TheocritusProvides a new approach to canonical Greek poetryBrings Classics into conversation with burgeoning theoretical frameworksSpeaks to current political concerns about the relationship between hum...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2023]
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| Colección: | Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms : ACNM
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009761839506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Material Agency
- 1. The Cup
- Material Ecocriticism: An Exercise in Listening
- Boundaries: Author, Genre, Tradition
- Oiko-criticism and Dark Ecology: Revisiting Hesiod’s Farm
- 2. The Woman
- Material Feminism: Changing Nature
- Idyll 1: Ekphrasis and Materiality
- Idyll 2: Reading Bodies
- Idyll 15: Women’s Work
- 3. The Fisherman and the Rock
- Idylls 7 and 21: Imagined Landscapes
- Idyll 23: Vital Stone
- Excursus: San Sperate
- 4. The Plaited Trap
- Idyll 1: Creative Matter
- Idyll 28: Emigration and Collaboration
- From Distaffs to Guineas
- 5. Beyond the Cup
- Idylls 6 and 11: His Monstrous Materials
- The Pipes Are Calling
- Slàinte
- A Concluding Excursus: Marsden
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
