Byzantine Ecocriticism Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance /

• Main Author: Goldwyn, Adam J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Literature, Medieval.; European literature.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Medieval Literature.; European Literature.; History of Medieval Europe.

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...

Table of Contents:

• -- 1 Byzantine Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis
• 2 Zoomorphic and Anthomorphic Metaphors in the "Proto-Romance" Digenis Akritis
• 3 Rape, Consent, and Ecofeminist Narratology in the Komnenian Romances
• 4 Witches and Nature Control in the Palaiologan Romances and Beyond
• 5 Byzantine Posthumanism: Autpoiesis, Sympoiesis, and an Eco-Ethics of Sustainability.