Sissa, Giulia
(ed.)
Martelli, Francesca
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: Ancient Environments
Número de páginas: 264 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 24-08-2023
EAN: 9781350268944
ISBN: 978-1-350-26894-4
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
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.