Greek tragedy in a global crisis : reading through pandemic times / Mario Telò.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Telò, Mario, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical texts.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction Reading Greek Tragedy through Pandemic Times

Part One Air Time Faces

1 Oedipus

2 Teiresias Cadmus Dionysus

3 Iphigenia

Part Two Communities

4 Alcestis

5 The Suppliant Women

Part Three Ruins

6 Antigone

7 Niobe

Part Four Insurrections

8 Prometheus

9 Hecuba

10 The Trojan Women

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350348141

1350348147

9781350348158

1350348155

9781350348134

1350348139

OCLC:

1369654764