Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis

Reading through Pandemic Times

Professor Mario Telò (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34812-7 (ISBN)

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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 Telò, 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.

Mario Telò is Professor of Rhetoric, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Comparative Literature at the 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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.06.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-34812-0 / 1350348120
ISBN-13	978-1-350-34812-7 / 9781350348127
Zustand	Neuware