Format:
1 Online-Ressource (250 p.)
ISBN:
9781399517522
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139951752X
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9781399517515
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1399517511
Series Statement:
Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms Series
Content:
Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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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
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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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Grace Canevaro, Lilah Theocritus and Things Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2023
Language:
English
