Ecocriticism, ecology, and the cultures of antiquity / edited by Christopher Schliephake ; foreword by Brooke Holmes ; afterword by Serenella Iovino

Published:: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Physical Description:: xvii, 371 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Schliephake, Christopher, 1985-

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Ecocritical theory and practice

Contents:

Foreword: Before Nature?, Brooke Holmes ; Introduction, Christopher Schliephake ; Part I: Environmental (Hi)stories: Negotiating Human-Nature Interactions. (1) Environmental Mosaics Natural and Imposed, J. Donald Hughes ; (2) Poseidon's Wrath and the End of Helike: Notions about the Anthropogenic Character of Disasters in Antiquity, Justine Walter ; (3) Glades of Dread: The Ecology and Aesthetics of loca horrida, Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska ; (4) Response: Hailed by the Genius of Ruins -- Antiquity, the Anthropocene, and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes Bergthaller ; Part II: Close Readings: Literary Ecologies and the More-than-Human World. (5) Eroticized Environments: Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Roots of Erotic Ecocritical Contemplation, Thomas Sharkie and Marguerite Johnson ; (6) Interspecies Ethics and Collaborative Survival in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Richard Hutchins ; (7) The Ecological Highway: Environmental Ekphrasis in Statius, Silvae 4.3, Christopher Chinn ; (8) Impervious Nature as a Path to Virtue: Cato in the Ninth Book of Bellum Civile, Vittoria Prencipe ; (9) Response: Re-Thinking Borderlines Ecologies -- A Literary Ethics of Exposure, Katharina Donn ; Part III: 'Green' Genres: The Pastoral and Georgic Tradition. (10) The Environmental Humanities and the Pastoral Tradition, Terry Gifford ; (11) "How / to make fields fertile": Ecocritical Lessons from the History of Virgil's Georgics in Translation, Laura Sayre ; (12) Nec provident futuro tempori, sed quasi plane in diem vivant -- Sustainable Business in Columella's De Re Rustica?, Lars Kessler and Konrad Ott ; (13) Response: Back to the Future -- Rethinking Time in Precarious Times, Roman Bartosch ; Part IV: Classical Reception: Presence, Absence, and the Afterlives of Ancient Culture. (14) The Myth of Rhiannon: An Ecofeminist Perspective, Anna Banks ; (15) Emblems and Antiquity: An Exploration of Speculative Emblematics, Lucy Mercer and Laurence Grove ; (16) The Sustainability of Texts: Transcultural Ecology and Classical Reception, Christopher Schliephake ; (17) Daoist Spiritual Ecology in the "Anthropocene", Jingcheng Xu ; (18) Response: From Ecocritical Reception of the Ancients to the Future of the Environmental Humanities (with a detour via Romanticism), Kate Rigby ; Afterword: Revealing Roots -- Ecocriticism and the Cultures of Antiquity, Serenella Iovino.

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History

ISBN:

9781498532846 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1498532845 (hardcover alkaline paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-349) and index.

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