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Witness Literature in Byzantium

Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees

By: Adam J. Goldwyn

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Witness Literature in Byzantium

Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees

By: Adam J. Goldwyn

This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’ Capture of Thessaloniki (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s Capture of Thessaloniki (1186), and Niketas Choniates’ History (ca. 1204–17) – and the three extant twelfth-century Komnenian novels to consider how the authors’ positions as both eyewitness and victim require an interpretive method that distinguishes witness literature from other kinds of writing about the past. Drawing on theoretical developments in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (such as Giorgio Agamben’s homo sacer and Michel Foucault’s biopolitics) and comparisons with modern examples (Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s If This is a Man), Witness Literature emphasizes the affective, subjective, and experiential in medieval Greek historical writing.

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3030788571

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Byzantine Ecocriticism

Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance

By: Adam J. Goldwyn

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Byzantine Ecocriticism

Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance

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Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by which such control was exerted; and the anxieties surrounding its limits. Adam Goldwyn thus demonstrates the ways in which intersectional ecocriticism, feminism, and posthumanism can be applied to medieval texts, and illustrates how the legacies of medieval and Byzantine environmental practice and ideology continue to be relevant to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.

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Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II

By: Adam J. Goldwyn

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Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II

By: Adam J. Goldwyn

This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer’s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. The wartime writings of Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, Rachel Bespaloff, Hermann Broch, Max Horkheimer, Primo Levi, and others were attempts both to understand the collapse of European civilization and the Enlightenment through critiques of their foundational texts and to imagine the place of the Homeric epics in a new post-War humanism. The book thus also explores the reception of these writers, analyzing how Jewish child-survivors like Geoffrey Hartman and Hélène Cixous and writers of the post-Holocaust generation like Daniel Mendelsohn continued to read the epics as narratives of grief, trauma, and woundedness into the twenty-first century. .

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Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II

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Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II

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Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance

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Witness Literature in Byzantium

Witness Literature in Byzantium

Byzantine Ecocriticism

Byzantine Ecocriticism

Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

Byzantine Ecocriticism

Byzantine Ecocriticism

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