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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Nancy Worman (Barnard College and Columbia University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9781350124370ISBN 10: 1350124370 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 10 December 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPrologue. Skin to Skin in Greek Tragedy Chapter 1. Touching Oedipus: Proximities, Contact, and Affective Intimacies Chapter 2. The Sibling Hand: Manual Erotics and Violence Chapter 3. Familial Coverings: Skin, Cloaks, and Other Outerwear Chapter 4. Strange Containers: Bodies and Other Tragic Vessels Chapter 5. Bodily Alterations: Undress, Prosthesis, and Assemblage Chapter 6. Mysterious Objects: Corpses, Ghosts, Statues Final Scenes. Beyond the Human Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThis 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 Author InformationNancy 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |