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Tragic Bodies - Edges of the Human in Greek Drama (Hardcover)
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Tragic Bodies - Edges of the Human in Greek Drama (Hardcover)
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This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to
how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object,
person and thing, living and dead, and so serve as vehicles for
confronting the edges of the human. At the same time, it explores
the ways in which Greek tragedy pulls up close to human bodies,
examining their physical edges, their surfaces and parts, their
coverings or nakedness, and their postures and orientations.
Drawing on and advancing the latest interplays of posthumanism and
materialism in relation to classical literature, Nancy Worman shows
how this tragic enactment may seem to emphasize the human body, but
in effect does something quite different. Greek drama instead often
treats the body as a thing that has the status and implications
associated with other objects, such as a cloak, an urn, or a toy
for a dog. Tragic Bodies urges attention to key scenes in Greek
tragedy that foreground bodily identifiers as semiotic
materializing. This occurs when signs with weighty symbolic
resonance distil out on the dramatic stage as concrete sites for
contention and conflation orchestrated through proximity, contact,
and sensory dynamics. Reading the dramatic script in this way
pursues the felt knowledge at the body's edges that tragic
representation affords, a consideration attuned to how bodies
register at tragedy's unique intersections - where directive and
figurative language combine to highlight visual, tactile, and aural
details.
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