"Ovid's Metamorphoses offers a compelling site for reconsidering the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it. The poem's recurrent theme is the physical transformation of humans into other life forms, a theme that invites readers to consider how human and non-human agencies have evolved from and adapted to one another in a relationship characterized by fluctuating perceptions of friction and symbiosis, distance and proximity. This volume of essays traces the variety of ways in which the world of the Metamorphoses offers a set of structures for…mehr
"Ovid's Metamorphoses offers a compelling site for reconsidering the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it. The poem's recurrent theme is the physical transformation of humans into other life forms, a theme that invites readers to consider how human and non-human agencies have evolved from and adapted to one another in a relationship characterized by fluctuating perceptions of friction and symbiosis, distance and proximity. This volume of essays traces the variety of ways in which the world of the Metamorphoses offers a set of structures for modelling the relationship between humans and other agencies within the biosphere in ways that answer to many of the precepts of contemporary eco-criticism. The contributors make the case for seeing the worldview depicted in this ancient text as an exemplar of the 'premodern' ecological mindset that contemporary environmental thought seeks to approximate in many ways. Their papers also scrutinize a number of critical moments in the history of the text's ecological reception (including reflections by a contemporary poet, as well as studies of important Medieval and Renaissance receptions of Ovid) in an attempt to recuperate the Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the history of environmental thought"--
Giulia Sissa is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature and Classics at UCLA, USA. She is the author of The Daily Life of the Greek Gods (with M. Detienne, 2000), Greek Virginity (1990), Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World (2008), Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion (2017) and Le Pouvoir des femmes. Un défi pour la démocratie (2021). Francesca Martelli is Associate Professor of Classics at UCLA, USA. She is the author of Ovid (2020) and Ovid's Revisions (2013).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Contributors Series preface Introduction by Giulia Sissa and Francesca Martelli Whoa! (a poem by John Shoptaw) Anthropology / Tragedy / Dark Ecology 1. Cuncta Fluunt: The Fluidity of Life in Ovid's Metamorphic World by Giulia Sissa 2. Medea the Middle and the Muddle in the Metamorphoses by Marco Formisano Cross-Species Encounters 3. Animal Listening by Shane Butler 4. Multispecies ethnographies multispecies temporalities by Francesca Martelli 5. Are trees really like people? by Emily Gowers Science / Wisdom Traditions 6. The World in an Egg: Reading Medieval Ecologies by Miranda Griffin 7. The Titania Translation: A Midsummer Night's Dream and the two Metamorphoses by Julia Lupton 8. Metamorphosis in a Deeper World by Claudia Zatta Agriculture 9. Language Life and Metamorphosis in Ovid's Roman backstory by Diana Spencer 10. 'Who can impress the forest?' Agriculture warfare and theatrical experience in Ovid and Shakespeare by Sandra Fluhrer Epilogue John Shoptaw (essay on the writing of Whoa!) Bibliography
List of Contributors Series preface Introduction by Giulia Sissa and Francesca Martelli Whoa! (a poem by John Shoptaw) Anthropology / Tragedy / Dark Ecology 1. Cuncta Fluunt: The Fluidity of Life in Ovid's Metamorphic World by Giulia Sissa 2. Medea the Middle and the Muddle in the Metamorphoses by Marco Formisano Cross-Species Encounters 3. Animal Listening by Shane Butler 4. Multispecies ethnographies multispecies temporalities by Francesca Martelli 5. Are trees really like people? by Emily Gowers Science / Wisdom Traditions 6. The World in an Egg: Reading Medieval Ecologies by Miranda Griffin 7. The Titania Translation: A Midsummer Night's Dream and the two Metamorphoses by Julia Lupton 8. Metamorphosis in a Deeper World by Claudia Zatta Agriculture 9. Language Life and Metamorphosis in Ovid's Roman backstory by Diana Spencer 10. 'Who can impress the forest?' Agriculture warfare and theatrical experience in Ovid and Shakespeare by Sandra Fluhrer Epilogue John Shoptaw (essay on the writing of Whoa!) Bibliography
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