Sensing Greek Drama

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Title: Sensing Greek Drama
Description: Sensing Greek Drama explores ancient Greek tragedy and comedy through the lens of the senses. It works within and beyond a number of recent developments in the scholarship of Classics and related fields. The individual chapters engage with the senses in drama in manifold ways: through various theoretical frameworks borrowed from kindred fields in the humanities and sciences – postmodernism, humanism, feminism, phenomenology, cognitive theory and neuroscience, to name a few – as well as through the more traditional approaches within Classics, including philology, historicism, performance studies and reception. Above all, Sensing Greek Drama serves as a call to “to recover our senses”, as Susan Sontag wrote in her famous essay “Against Interpretation”, in a modern age characterized by sensory overload and deprivation.
Authors: Zachary Case, Marcus Ellis, Antonia Marie Reinke
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism--Congresses, Greek language--Metrics and rhythmics--Congresses, Drama--Chorus (Greek drama)--Congresses, Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism--Congresses
Categories: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, DRAMA / Ancient & Classical
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:Sensing Greek Drama explores ancient Greek tragedy and comedy through the lens of the senses. It works within and beyond a number of recent developments in the scholarship of Classics and related fields. The individual chapters engage with the senses in drama in manifold ways: through various theoretical frameworks borrowed from kindred fields in the humanities and sciences – postmodernism, humanism, feminism, phenomenology, cognitive theory and neuroscience, to name a few – as well as through the more traditional approaches within Classics, including philology, historicism, performance studies and reception. Above all, Sensing Greek Drama serves as a call to “to recover our senses”, as Susan Sontag wrote in her famous essay “Against Interpretation”, in a modern age characterized by sensory overload and deprivation.
ISBN:9781913701475