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What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline, Mario Telo, brings together a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons with contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, Oedipus the King, Prometheus Bound, and Trojan Women, our experience is precariously refracted back in the formal worlds of plays named after and, to an extent, epitomized by tragic characters.
Structured around four thematic clusters - Air Time Faces, Communities, Ruins, and Insurrections - this book presents timely interventions in critical theory and in the debates that matter to us as disaster becomes routine in the time-out-of-joint of a (post-)pandemic world. Violently encompassing all pre-existing and future crises (relational, political and ecological), the pandemic coincides with the queer unhistoricism of tragedy, and its collapsing of present, past, and future readerships.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis is an exciting experiment in thinking with and through ancient theater and contemporary theory. It stimulates, provokes, and consoles, and will be a powerful resource for readers of all kinds. -- Joshua Billings, Professor of Classics, Princeton University, USA Telo's range with ancient and modern material is extraordinary. Every chapter contains unexpected references that require deep thought to fully absorb. It is not only a stimulating and provocative analysis of tragedy in the
context of global crises but a practical demonstration of how many different modern genres can be read alongside tragedy. * Mouseion *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Maße
Höhe: 238 mm
Breite: 158 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-350-34811-0 (9781350348110)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Mario Telo is Professor of Rhetoric, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Autor*in
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading Greek Tragedy through Pandemic Times
I. Air Time Faces
1. Oedipus
2. Teiresias Cadmus Dionysus
3. Iphigenia
II. Communities
4. Alcestis
5. The suppliant women
III. Ruins
6. Antigone
7. Niobe
IV. Insurrections
8. Prometheus
9. Hecuba
10. The Trojan women
Epilogue
