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Queer Euripides - Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy (Hardcover)
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Queer Euripides - Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy (Hardcover)
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This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of
an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly
conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three
great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been
seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of
gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy
have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its
ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in
exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature
afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects
and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings
of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and
relations more broadly. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by
experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and
critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and
provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models
of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic
form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather
than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings
showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new
vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force
of Euripidean drama. They further demonstrate how the analytical
frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last thirty years
deeply resonate with the ways in which Euripides' plays twist
poetic form in order to challenge well-established modes of the
social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource
for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model
of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current
interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms, and
reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the
center of the interpretive act.
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