Theocritus and Things
Material Agency in the Idylls
Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-1749-2 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-1749-2 (ISBN)
Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus
Provides a new approach to canonical Greek poetry
Brings Classics into conversation with burgeoning theoretical frameworks
Speaks to current political concerns about the relationship between humans and nature
Decentres the male human subject and listens to a wider cast of characters, offering a 'from below' reading
This book contributes to the literary-theoretical field of Material Ecocriticism, expanding its chronological remit, and is the first to apply it to Classics. Material Ecocriticism has been described as an exercise in listening and it is to a series of underrepresented agents (women, nature, the nonhuman) in the poetry of Theocritus that this book urges us to listen. This 'from below' reading that allows nature and materiality their agency, that sees objects and the labour behind them, gives a new way in to the paradoxes of Hellenistic pastoral poetry: the urban backdrop to bucolic poetry, the artifice of the locus amoenus. This book reveals a detailed picture of material agency and a diverse cast of characters human and nonhuman in Theocritus' Idylls, showing that while the poetry might be paradoxical it is not rarefied. And through a dark-ecological reading it highlights the darkness that undercuts the idyll.
Provides a new approach to canonical Greek poetry
Brings Classics into conversation with burgeoning theoretical frameworks
Speaks to current political concerns about the relationship between humans and nature
Decentres the male human subject and listens to a wider cast of characters, offering a 'from below' reading
This book contributes to the literary-theoretical field of Material Ecocriticism, expanding its chronological remit, and is the first to apply it to Classics. Material Ecocriticism has been described as an exercise in listening and it is to a series of underrepresented agents (women, nature, the nonhuman) in the poetry of Theocritus that this book urges us to listen. This 'from below' reading that allows nature and materiality their agency, that sees objects and the labour behind them, gives a new way in to the paradoxes of Hellenistic pastoral poetry: the urban backdrop to bucolic poetry, the artifice of the locus amoenus. This book reveals a detailed picture of material agency and a diverse cast of characters human and nonhuman in Theocritus' Idylls, showing that while the poetry might be paradoxical it is not rarefied. And through a dark-ecological reading it highlights the darkness that undercuts the idyll.
Lilah Grace Canevaro is Senior Lecturer in Greek in the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Her previous publications include Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Hesiod's Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency (Oxford University Press, 2015).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.06.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms |
| Zusatzinfo | 11 B/W illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-1749-X / 139951749X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-1749-2 / 9781399517492 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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