Theocritus and Things : : Material Agency in the Idylls /

Theocritus and Things : : Material Agency in the Idylls / / Lilah Canevaro.

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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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Canevaro, Lilah ,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms : ACNM
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 11 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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