The Materialities of Greek Tragedy - Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2018
Editors:	Mario Telo • Melissa Mueller (Associate Professor)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-02879-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	1-350-02879-7
Barcode:	9781350028791

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