Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination

Free Download Giulia Sissa, "Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination "
English | ISBN: 1350268941 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it. Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the

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