Books by Adam Goldwyn
This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted H... more This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. The wartime writings of Theodore
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This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness a... more This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts-John Kaminiates' Capture of Thessaloniki (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki's Capture of Thessaloniki (1186), and Niketas Choniates' History (ca. 1204-17)and the three extant twelfth-century Komnenian novels to consider how the authors' positions as both eyewitness and victim require an interpretive method that distinguishes witness literature from other kinds of writing about the past. Drawing on theoretical developments in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (such as Giorgio Agamben's homo sacer and Michel Foucault's biopolitics) and comparisons with modern examples (Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's If This is a Man), Witness Literature emphasizes the affective, subjective, and experiential in medieval Greek historical writing.
Translations by Adam Goldwyn
Edited Volumes by Adam Goldwyn
Brill's Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Rom... more Brill's Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Roman classical receptions across the western hemisphere from the late fi fteenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together fourteen essays (plus introduction) by scholars working at the intersection of Classics and all aspects of American studies, this unique collection examines how Hispanophone, Lusophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and/or Indigenous individuals-among others-engaged with ancient Greco-Roman literary cultures and traditions. By coming at the matter from a multilingual transhemispheric perspective, it disrupts prevailing accounts of classical reception in the Americas which have typically privileged North over South, Anglophone over non-Anglophone, and the cultural production of dominant racial, ethnic, and social groups over that of colonized, marginalized others. Instead it off ers a fresh account of how Greco-Roman literatures and ideas spread across the western hemisphere from Canada to the Southern Cone via the Caribbean, treating classical reception in the early Americas as a dynamic, polyvocal phenomenon which is truly transhemispheric in reach.
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde exa... more Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines how the writers and artists who lived from roughly the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth sought to build a new world from the ashes of one marked by two world wars, global economic depression, the rise of nationalism, and the collapse of empires. By surveying the modernist appropriation of Ancient Greece and Rome, the fourteen chapters in this volume demonstrate how the Classics, as foundational texts of the old order, were nevertheless adapted to suit the stylistic innovation and formal experimentation that characterized modernist and avant-garde literature and art.
Articles and Book Chapters by Adam Goldwyn
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Byzantine literature by and large reflects the experiences of the urban elite who comprised its p... more Byzantine literature by and large reflects the experiences of the urban elite who comprised its patrons, authors, and audience. As a result, much of this cultural production elides the experiences of the agricultural workers whose labor in palatial pleasure gardens and vast rural farming estates supplied these aristocrats with much of their food, wealth, and leisure. In Eumathios Makrembolites' twelfth-century Hysmine and Hysminias, for instance, the novel's central aristocratic couple meet in a garden that is described in great detail, though the presence of the gardeners themselves goes unnarrated. This paper argues that contemporary critical theory drawn from Chicanx Studies and African and African American Studies-which have long foregrounded the subjectivity of slaves, migrant laborers, and other marginalized agricultural workers-offers models for recuperating the lives and experiences of agricultural workers in Byzantium. These recuperative models, applied to other elements of the Byzantine archive (such as the court decisions recorded in the sixth-century Novels of Justinian and farm manuals such as the tenth-century Geoponika), demonstrate the physical, economic, and personal hardships endured by agricultural workers, and can thus offer a corrective to a scholarly tradition that has too often reflected the bias of its sources in this erasure.
A study of the appropriation of Byzantine Studies by the alt-right and men's rights activists, an... more A study of the appropriation of Byzantine Studies by the alt-right and men's rights activists, and what Byzantinists can do about it.
Intro to Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development. Eds. Adam J. ... more Intro to Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development. Eds. Adam J. Goldwyn and René M. Silverman. Palgrave-MacMillan: 2016.
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