Ancient Christian ecopoetics : cosmologies, Saints, things /
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| Author / Creator: | Burrus, Virginia, author. |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12396782 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedicationi; Contents; Introduction; I. Beginning Again with Khora: Traces of a Dark Cosmology; Prelude: Anticipations of an Eco-Chorology; Dreaming Khora: Plato's Timaeus; Interlude: Fragments of an Eco-Chorology; Khoric Legacies: Readers of Timaeus and Genesis; Interlude: Beginning Again with Scripture; In/Conclusion: Khora, God, Materiality; Postlude: Beginnings, Again; II. Queering Creation: Hagiography without Humans; Prelude: Ecocriticism as Queer Theory; Before Hagiography, Autozoography: The Life of Plotinus
- Queerly Ecological: The Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of EgyptInterlude: Desertification; Holy Disfigurations: The Life of Syncletica; Saint as Posthuman Assemblage: The Life of Simeon the Stylite; Interlude: Performance Art; In/Conclusion: Saints and Other Queer Creatures; Postlude: A Tough Love; III. Things and Practices: Arts of Coexistence; Prelude: Theorizing Things; Feeling Things: Relics and Icons in an Animate World; Situating Things: Architecture, Landscape, Cosmos; Interlude: Fragments of a Material Theology of Things
- Speaking Things: Rhetoric and Performativity in Basil's HexameronDesiring Things: Contemplation, Creation, and God in Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius; Interlude: Words and Things; In/Conclusion: Things, Practices, Piety; Postlude: The Things That Matter; Epilogue: Worm Stories; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments
