Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2021

Seiten: 115-132

Zeitschrift: SubStance

Bandnummer: 50

Heftnummer: 3

ISSN: 0049-2426

eISSN: 1527-2095

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Abstract: 
Inspired by growing trends of reevaluating ancient literary works in the light of current environmental crises, this study offers a rereading of a pastoral classic, Virgil's Eclogues. It discusses the work's occurrences of 'pathetic fallacy' regarding their ecocritical merit. While traditional understandings of this literary device determine it to be primarily a (mis) attribution of human emotions to natural objects, this article argues that, through the lens of material ecocriticism, its productivity lies elsewhere: it informs the reader about conceptions of human-nonhuman connectedness while encouraging affective attunements between humans and the environment.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Rozzoni, S. (2021) From 'Pathetic Fallacy' to Affective Attunement: Reading Virgil's Eclogues through the Lens of Material Ecocriticism, SubStance, 50(3), pp. 115-132

APA-Zitierstil: Rozzoni, S. (2021). From 'Pathetic Fallacy' to Affective Attunement: Reading Virgil's Eclogues through the Lens of Material Ecocriticism. SubStance. 50(3), 115-132.