Tragic Bodies: Edges of the Human in Greek Drama

Awards:   Winner of The PROSE Award 2022 (UK)
Author:   Professor Nancy Worman (Barnard College and Columbia University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350124370


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   10 December 2020
Format:   Paperback
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  • Winner of The PROSE Award 2022 (UK)

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Author:   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:  

9781350124370


ISBN 10:   1350124370
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   10 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prologue. 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 Index

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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


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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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