The Materialities of Greek Tragedy
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The Materialities of Greek Tragedy

Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Materialities of Greek Tragedy

Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Stone into Smoke
  12. 2. Morbid Materialism
  13. 3. Orestes’ Urn in Word and Action
  14. 4. Weapons as Friends and Foes in Sophocles’
  15. 5. The Familiar
  16. 6. The Other Side of the Mirror
  17. 7. Memory Incarnate
  18. 8. The Boon and the Woe
  19. 9. Noses in the Orchestra
  20. 10. Speaking Sights and Seen Sounds in Aeschylean Tragedy
  21. 11. Electra, Orestes, and the Sibling Hand
  22. 12. Materialisms Old and New
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index