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Author Grace Canevaro, Lilah.

Title Theocritus and Things [electronic resource] : Material Agency in the Idylls.

Imprint Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
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Description 1 online resource (250 p.).
Series Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms Series
Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms Series.
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents 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
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
Summary Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus.
Subject Theocritus -- Criticism and interpretation.
Theocritus. (OCoLC)fst00011272
Ecocriticism.
Écocritique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Ecocriticism. (OCoLC)fst00901428
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Grace Canevaro, Lilah Theocritus and Things Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2023
ISBN 9781399517522 (electronic bk.)
139951752X (electronic bk.)
9781399517515 (electronic bk.)
1399517511 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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