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

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

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Mario Telo (Contributor) Melissa Mueller (Contributor)  

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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. 9 bw illus
Mario Telo 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).
  • Contributor: Mario Telo
  • Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN13: 9781350143593
  • Number of Pages: 320
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 445
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Release Date: 2019-12-26
  • Series: Criminal Practice Series
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Mario Telo 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).

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