Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781350348127 |
ISBN10: | 13503481211 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 296 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Language: | English |
722 |
Category:
Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis
Reading through Pandemic Times
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 15 June 2023
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Long description:
What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline, Mario Tel?, brings together a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons with contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, Oedipus the King, Prometheus Bound, and Trojan Women, our experience is precariously refracted back in the formal worlds of plays named after and, to an extent, epitomized by tragic characters.
Structured around four thematic clusters - Air Time Faces, Communities, Ruins, and Insurrections - this book presents timely interventions in critical theory and in the debates that matter to us as disaster becomes routine in the time-out-of-joint of a (post-)pandemic world. Violently encompassing all pre-existing and future crises (relational, political and ecological), the pandemic coincides with the queer unhistoricism of tragedy, and its collapsing of present, past, and future readerships.
Structured around four thematic clusters - Air Time Faces, Communities, Ruins, and Insurrections - this book presents timely interventions in critical theory and in the debates that matter to us as disaster becomes routine in the time-out-of-joint of a (post-)pandemic world. Violently encompassing all pre-existing and future crises (relational, political and ecological), the pandemic coincides with the queer unhistoricism of tragedy, and its collapsing of present, past, and future readerships.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading Greek Tragedy through Pandemic Times
I. Air Time Faces
1. Oedipus
2. Teiresias Cadmus Dionysus
3. Iphigenia
II. Communities
4. Alcestis
5. The suppliant women
III. Ruins
6. Antigone
7. Niobe
IV. Insurrections
8. Prometheus
9. Hecuba
10. The Trojan women
Epilogue
Introduction: Reading Greek Tragedy through Pandemic Times
I. Air Time Faces
1. Oedipus
2. Teiresias Cadmus Dionysus
3. Iphigenia
II. Communities
4. Alcestis
5. The suppliant women
III. Ruins
6. Antigone
7. Niobe
IV. Insurrections
8. Prometheus
9. Hecuba
10. The Trojan women
Epilogue