The materialities of Greek tragedy : objects and affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides /: objects and affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Melissa Mueller and Mario Telo.
• Editors: Mueller, Melissa; Telò, Mario, 1977-
• Contents: Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION Greek Tragedy and the New Materialisms; 1 Stone into Smoke Metaphor and Materiality in Euripides' Troades; 2 Morbid Materialism The Matter of the Corpse in Euripides' Alcestis; 3 Orestes' Urn in Word and Action; 4 Weapons as Friends and Foes in Sophocles' Ajax and Euripides' Heracles; 1. Ajax and acting out; 2. Heracles and working through; 5 The Familiar Mask; Masks' off-stage lives; Familiar masks in tragedy 6 The Other Side of the Mirror Reflection and Reversal in Euripides' HecubaReflection and the senses; Reflection and light; Reflection, reversal, and tragic aesthetics; 7 Memory Incarnate Material Objects and Private Visions in Classical Athens, from Euripides' Ion to the Gravesite; 8 The Boon and the Woe Friendship and the Ethics of Affect in Sophocles' Philoctetes; 9 Noses in the Orchestra Bodies, Objects, and Affect in Sophocles' Ichneutae; 1. Fashioning bodies; 2. Satyrs, cattle, and other things; Conclusion; 10 Speaking Sights and Seen Sounds in Aeschylean Tragedy Sight and sound in Seven Against ThebesVisualizing the beacon in Agamemnon; 11 Electra, Orestes, and the Sibling Hand; 1. Hands-on family; 2. Forceful familial hands (Aeschylus); 3. Electra's loving hands (Sophocles); 4. Electra and Orestes hand-to-hand (Euripides); 12 Materialisms Old and New; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 882/.0109; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Greek drama; Material culture in literature; DRAMA / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Classical history / classical civilisation; Drama -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism -- Ancient & Classical; History -- Ancient -- Greece; Classical texts; Greek drama -- History and criticism; Material culture in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350028814; 1350028819
• Related ISBNs: 9781350028791; 1350028797
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 9, 2018).
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