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The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

Editat de Professor Mario Telò, Professor Melissa Mueller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 dec 2019
Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three major Greek tragedians problematize objects and affect, providing fresh readings of some of the masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The so-called new materialisms have complemented the study of objects as signifiers or symbols with an interest in their agency and vitality, their sensuous force and psychosomatic impact-and conversely their resistance and irreducible aloofness. At the same time, emotion has been recast as material "affect," an intense flow of energies between bodies, animate and inanimate. Powerfully contributing to the current critical debate on materiality, the essays collected here destabilize established interpretations, suggesting alternative approaches and pointing toward a newly robust sense of the physicality of Greek tragedy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350143593
ISBN-10: 1350143596
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 9 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Editors are well established figures and the contributors comprise some of the best-known names in the field as well as rising stars of the younger generation

Notă biografică

Mario Telò is Professor of Classics at University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is author of Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon (2016) and an edition and commentary of Eupolis's Demes (2007).Melissa Mueller is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is author of Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy (2016).

Cuprins

List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Greek Tragedy and the New Materialisms - Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA1. Stone into Smoke: Metaphor and Materiality in Euripides' Troades - Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada2. Morbid Materialism: The Matter of the Corpse in Euripides' Alcestis - Karen Bassi, University of California, USA3. Orestes' Urn in Word and Action - Joshua Billings, Princeton University, USA4. Weapons as Friends and Foes in Sophocles' Ajax and Euripides' Heracles - Erika Weiberg, Florida State University, USA5. The Familiar Mask - Al Duncan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA6. The Other Side of the Mirror: Reflection and Reversal in Euripides' Hecuba - Ava Shirazi, Princeton University, USA7. Memory Incarnate: Material Objects and Private Visions in Classical Athens from Euripides' Ion to the Gravesite - Seth Estrin, University of Chicago, USA8. The Boon and the Woe: Friendship and the Ethics of Affect in Sophocles' Philoctetes - Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA9. Noses in the Orchestra: Bodies, Objects, and Affect in Sophocles' Ichneutae - Anna Uhlig, University of California, Davis, USA10. Speaking Sights and Seen Sounds in Aeschylean Tragedy - Naomi Weiss, Harvard University, USA11. Electra, Orestes, and the Sibling Hand - Nancy Worman, Barnard College and Columbia University, USA12. Materialisms Old and New - Edith Hall, King's College London, UKBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

This is an enormously engaging book, full of subtle and imaginative treatments of tragedy . What it offers most clearly is a taste of the great variety of modern materialisms and also a sharp sense of what these movements disavow: explorations of the soul, the spirit, transcendence, language as a transparent or logical system, transparency or logic, human agency, consciousness, intentionality, or authorship. Engaging with the volume is an extraordinarily useful way to understand the many potentials, and the constraints, of this varied set of intellectual movements. I can well imagine teaching with these essays, if only to prod my students to excitement, irritation, and ideas.
This valuable collection almost without exception succeeds brilliantly in exemplifying the exhilarating range of potential in critical applications of the new materialisms to Athenian tragedy. At the same time, it does not shy away from some frank expressions of discomfort with the ethical risks inherent in the idea of matter as almost subjectively 'vibrant' or in the notion of the destabilising 'in-between-ness' of affect, theorising that could seem to justify the alleviation of human responsibility for our material and social environment.
This collected edition is at the cutting edge of theoretical engagements with Athenian tragic drama, and showcases world leading scholars teasing out the implications of the tragedians' obsession with objects and their connections to emotional experience.
The studies contained in this volume show that the remit of new materialism is broad and generous, that it can be mobilised in all sorts of ways.
This valuable collection almost without exception succeeds brilliantly in exemplifying the exhilarating range of potential in critical applications of the new materialisms to Athenian tragedy. At the same time, it does not shy away from some frank expressions of discomfort with the ethical risks inherent in the idea of matter as almost subjectively 'vibrant' or in the notion of the destabilising 'in-between-ness' of affect, theorising that could seem to justify the alleviation of human responsibility for our material and social environment. These readings of the Greek tragedies' own complex engagement with matter and affect further suggest that some of the 'new' materialisms are not entirely as new as they may seem.