| Description |
1 online resource (250 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms Series |
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Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms Series.
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| 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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus. |
| Subject |
Theocritus -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Ecocriticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grace Canevaro, Lilah Theocritus and Things Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2023 |
| ISBN |
9781399517522 (electronic book) |
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139951752X (electronic book) |
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9781399517515 (electronic book) |
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1399517511 (electronic book) |
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