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Theocritus and Things Material Agency in the Idylls.

Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grace Canevaro, Lilah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Colección:Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms Series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • 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