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This book illustrates in a timely and important fashion the ways in which the ancient world can arm us with hermeneutical tools to process trauma and conflict. In this fifth year of an ongoing pandemic, with countless examples of “tragic” conflict, loss, and injustice firmly imprinted into the human consciousness by autopsy and media amplification, Telò’s observation that “the poetic form of ten emblematic plays of Greek tragedy can speak to us about the pandemic as well as the crises it has aggravated and come to epitomize” (4) calls us to consider how we as humans respond to forces outside our control and how those forces are not endemic to any one time or place. This process of reading necessitates two simultaneous vectors of interpretation, from the past into the present and vice versa: “This interpretive approach entails not simply reading tragedy through the pandemic, reading the pandemic into tragedy … but also using the ‘stasis of constant crisis’—the defining psychic atmosphere of the moment, the Zeitgeist of no-time or of saturated time—to inhabit the unsettling non-normativity, the queerness of tragic feeling” (3, emphasis original).
What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline, Mario Telò, brings together a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons with contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, Oedipus the King, Prometheus Bound, and Trojan Women, our experience is precariously refracted back in the formal worlds of plays named after and, to an extent, epitomized by tragic characters. Structured around four thematic clusters - Air Time Faces, Communities, Ruins, and Insurrections - this book presents timely interventions in critical theory and in the debates that matter to us as disaster becomes routine in the time-out-of-joint of a (post-)pandemic world. Violently encompassing all pre-existing and future crises (relational, political and ecological), the pandemic coincides with the queer unhistoricism of tragedy, and its collapsing of present, past, and future readerships. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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