Adam J. Goldwyn

Byzantine Ecocriticism

Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance. Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2018. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,0 cm / 14,8 cm / 1,5 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9783319887302
117,69 €
inkl. MwSt.
256 Seiten
Mai 2018
Palgrave Macmillan

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

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.

.- 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.