Goldwyn, Adam J.. Byzantine Ecocriticism - Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance. Springer International Publishing, 2017.
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Adam J. Goldwyn

Byzantine Ecocriticism

Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance
  • Springer International Publishing
  • 2017
  • Gebunden
  • 256 Seiten
  • ISBN 9783319692029

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

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