Building the Necropolis: Killing Mother/Nature in<i>The Spanish Tragedy</i>and<i>Titus Andronicus</i>

Gruber, Elizabeth D.

doi:10.1080/10436928.2014.964152

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“…48 Just as 'the conquest of nature required literature's explanatory power and imaginative force', so does Lavinia's violated ecosystem require literature to explain and begin to address what has occurred. 49 This reinterpretation of Marcus's blazon illustrates how a revisioning of 'blue' nature and the body as complex systems can reshape how we recognise agency. In deliberately reworking the critical lens by which Lavinia is interpreted, this article attempts to change the narrative around Lavinia much as the dialogue around the role of women within the broader 'climate change narrative' must also be altered to afford women and 'nature' greater agency -and even to redefine the terms themselves.…”

Section: Your Statue Spouting Blood In Many Pipesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reviving Lavinia

Hansen

2019

Critical Survey

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This article revives the agency of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus through a blended ecocritical and complexivist approach. A ‘blue’ ecocritical lens identifies Lavinia’s alignment with aquatic imagery, and tracks the development of this imagery across four main phases in the play: human tears, a river, a flood, and a freeze. These phases broadly map onto different modes of ecological relations as the play explores alternative patterns of human–environmental interactions. Lavinia is reinterpreted as an active and independent complex ecosystem, and one capable of communicating through the same aquatic imagery which is utilised in the narrative to attempt to contain and commodify her. Titus’s aquatic discourse finds parallels in our own climate crises, in ongoing problematic associations between women and nature, and in our need to generate new models of agency and ecological relations.

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Section: Your Statue Spouting Blood In Many Pipesmentioning

confidence: 99%