Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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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.
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Keywords
- reading Byzantine Literature in the Anthropocene
- medieval ecocriticism
- zoomorphic metaphor in Digenis Akritis and Chaucer
- anthropomorphic metaphor in Digenis Akritis and Chaucer
- portrayal of women in Byzantine romance
- gender in Byzantine depictions of hunting
- rape in Byzantine literature
- ecofeminism and Byzantine literature
- sexual violence in Rhodanthe and Dosikles
- Sexual violence in Drosilla and Charikles
- The Tale of the Shepherdess
- ecofeminist reading of medieval romance
- witches in Palaiologan Romances
- social construct of ideology through translation
- intersection of feminism and environmentalism
- Medea as feminist representation
- Livistros and Rodamni
- Byzantine Achilleid
- posthumanism in Byzantine literature
- Achilles as patriarchal symbol
Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This book is a pathbreaking study in the field of Byzantine literature. … the book is meant to be accessible also to a nonspecialist audience. … All in all, Goldwyn’s volume on Byzantine ecocriticism is a successful attempt to apply an innovative approach to medieval Greek romance and to show how meaningful modern ideologies and theoretical elaborations can be in interpreting premodern texts.” (Rachele Ricceri, Speculum, Vol. 94 (4), October, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Byzantine Ecocriticism
Book Subtitle: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance
Authors: Adam J. Goldwyn
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69203-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69202-9Published: 19 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88730-2Published: 23 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69203-6Published: 29 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 240
Topics: Medieval Literature, European Literature, History of Medieval Europe