| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) |
| Series |
The New Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
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 Making Kin in the Gardens of Romance |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 06, 2022) |
| Subject |
Romances, Byzantine -- History and criticism
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Nature in literature.
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Women in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- Nature.
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Nature in literature
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Romances, Byzantine
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319692036 |
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3319692038 |
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