Worman Professor Nancy (Barnard College And Columbia University Usa)
Worman Professor Nancy (Barnard College And Columbia University Usa) - Tragic Bodies Edges Of The Human In Greek Drama - Hardcover
Worman Professor Nancy (Barnard College And Columbia University Usa) - Tragic Bodies Edges Of The Human In Greek Drama - Hardcover
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Description: Winner of the Prose Award (2022) for Classics This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object person and thing living and dead and so serve as vehicles for confronting the edges of the human. At the same time it explores the ways in which Greek tragedy pulls up close to human bodies examining their physical edges their surfaces and parts their coverings or nakedness and their postures and orientations. Drawing on and advancing the latest interplays of posthumanism and materialism in relation to classical literature Nancy Worman shows how this tragic enactment may seem to emphasize the human body but in effect does something quite different. Greek drama instead often treats the body as a thing that has the status and implications associated with other objects such as a cloak an urn or a toy for a dog. Tragic Bodies urges attention to key scenes in Greek tragedy that foreground bodily identifiers as semiotic materializing. This occurs when signs with weighty symbolic resonance distil out on the dramatic stage as concrete sites for contention and conflation orchestrated through proximity contact and sensory dynamics. Reading the dramatic script in this way pursues the felt knowledge at the body's edges that tragic representation affords a consideration attuned to how bodies register at tragedy's unique intersections where directive and figurative language combine to highlight visual tactile and aural details.
Title: Tragic Bodies Edges Of The Human In Greek Drama
Author(s): Worman Professor Nancy (Barnard College And Columbia University Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350124363
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 12/10/2020
Category: Classical History / Classical Civilisation
Description: Winner of the Prose Award (2022) for Classics This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object person and thing living and dead and so serve as vehicles for confronting the edges of the human. At the same time it explores the ways in which Greek tragedy pulls up close to human bodies examining their physical edges their surfaces and parts their coverings or nakedness and their postures and orientations. Drawing on and advancing the latest interplays of posthumanism and materialism in relation to classical literature Nancy Worman shows how this tragic enactment may seem to emphasize the human body but in effect does something quite different. Greek drama instead often treats the body as a thing that has the status and implications associated with other objects such as a cloak an urn or a toy for a dog. Tragic Bodies urges attention to key scenes in Greek tragedy that foreground bodily identifiers as semiotic materializing. This occurs when signs with weighty symbolic resonance distil out on the dramatic stage as concrete sites for contention and conflation orchestrated through proximity contact and sensory dynamics. Reading the dramatic script in this way pursues the felt knowledge at the body's edges that tragic representation affords a consideration attuned to how bodies register at tragedy's unique intersections where directive and figurative language combine to highlight visual tactile and aural details.
Title: Tragic Bodies Edges Of The Human In Greek Drama
Author(s): Worman Professor Nancy (Barnard College And Columbia University Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350124363
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 12/10/2020
Category: Classical History / Classical Civilisation
