Journal article
Authors list: Rozzoni, Stefano
Publication year: 2021
Pages: 115-132
Journal: SubStance
Volume number: 50
Issue number: 3
ISSN: 0049-2426
eISSN: 1527-2095
Publisher: 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.
Citation Styles
Harvard Citation style: 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 Citation style: Rozzoni, S. (2021). From 'Pathetic Fallacy' to Affective Attunement: Reading Virgil's Eclogues through the Lens of Material Ecocriticism. SubStance. 50(3), 115-132.
