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

Autorentext

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.

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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

Zusammenfassung

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

Inhalt

.- 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.