Tragic Bodies
edges of the human in greek drama
$117.09
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2020
Summary
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 po…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350124370 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350124370 |
| Author: | Nancy Worman, Professor Nancy Worman |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 158mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
This book is a sophisticated, informed, path-breaking reading of the semiotics of ancient Greek tragedy and aesthesis.
This book is a sophisticated, informed, path-breaking reading of the semiotics of ancient Greek tragedy and aesthesis. – Ahuvia Kahane, Regius Professor of Greek and A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
About The Author
Nancy Worman
Nancy Worman is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University, New York, USA. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance, and the body in Greek literature and culture. Her books include Virginia Woolf’s Greek Tragedy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (2015).
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