Format:
1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350249653
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9781350249639
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9781350249615
Content:
"This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and relations more broadly. Bringing together 20 chapters by experts in Classical Studies, English literature, performance and critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force of Euripidean drama, and demonstrate how the analytical frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last 30 years deeply resonate with the ways in which it twists poetic form to challenge well-established modes of the social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms and reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the center of the interpretive act."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Queer Euripides: An Introduction / (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA and Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA) -- Part I. Temporalities. 1. Hippolytus : Euripides and Queer Theory at the Fin de Siècle and Now / (Daniel Orrells, King's College, London, UK) ; 2. Rhesus : Tragic Wilderness in Queer Time / (Oliver Baldwin, University of Reading, UK) ; 3. Trojan Women : No Futures / (Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) -- Part II. Escape/Refusal. 4. Iphigenia in Aulis : Perhaps (Not) / (Ella Haselswerdt, University of California, Los Angeles, USA) ; 5. Helen : Queering the Barbarian / (Patrice Rankine, University of Richmond, USA) ; 6. Children of Heracles : Queer Kinship: Profit, Vivisection, Kitsch / (Ben Radcliffe, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) ; 7. Suppliant Women : Adrastus's Cute Lesbianism: Labor Irony Adhesion / (Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA) -- Part III: Failure. 8. Medea : Failure and the Queer Escape / (Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago, USA) ; 9. Alcestis : Impossible Performance / (Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA) ; 10. Ion : Into the Queer Ionisphere / (Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College, USA) -- Part IV: Relations. 11. Heracles : Homosexual Panic and Irresponsible Reading / (Alastair Blanshard, University of Queensland, Australia) ; 12. Andromache : Catfight in Phthia / (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA) ; 13. Orestes : Polymorphously Per-verse: On Queer Metrology / (David Youd, University of California, Berkeley, USA) -- Part V. Reproduction. 14. Hecuba : The Dead Child or Queer for a Day / (Karen Bassi, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) ; 15. Phoenician Women : 'Deviant' Thebans Out of Time / (Rosa Andâujar, Kings' College, London, UK) ; 16. Electra : Parapoetics and Paraontology / (Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) -- Part VI: Encounters. 17. Iphigenia in Tauris : Iphigenia and Artemis? Reading Queer/Performing Queer / (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, USA and David Bullen, Royal Holloway, UK) ; 18. Cyclops : A Philosopher Walks into a Satyr Play / (Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, USA) -- Part VII: Transitions. 19. Hippolytus : Queer Crossings: Following Anne Carson / (Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University, USA) ; 20. Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria : Reality and the Egg: An Oviparody of Euripides / (L. Deihr, UC, Berkeley, USA) ; 21. Bacchae : 'An Excessively High Price to Pay for Being Reluctant to Emerge from the Closet?' / (Isabel Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350249622
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350249653
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