Queer Euripides : re-readings in Greek tragedy /
This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- Queer Euripides: An Introduction (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA and Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA) ; Part I. Temporalities 1. Hippolytus: Euripides and Queer Theory at the Fin de Siècle and Now (Daniel Orrells, King's College, London, UK) ; 2. Rhesus: Tragic Wilderness in Queer Time (Oliver Baldwin, University of Reading, UK) ; 3. Trojan Women: No Futures (Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) ; Part II. Escape/Refusal 4. Iphigenia in Aulis: Perhaps (Not) (Ella Haselswerdt, University of California, Los Angeles, USA) ; 5. Helen: Queering the Barbarian (Patrice Rankine, University of Richmond, USA) ; 6. Children of Heracles: Queer Kinship: Profit, Vivisection, Kitsch (Ben Radcliffe, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) ; 7. Suppliant Women: Adrastus's Cute Lesbianism: Labor Irony Adhesion (Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA) ; Part III: Failure 8. Medea: Failure and the Queer Escape (Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago, USA) ; 9. Alcestis: Impossible Performance (Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA) ; 10. Ion: Into the Queer Ionisphere (Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College, USA) ; Part IV: Relations 11. Heracles: Homosexual Panic and Irresponsible Reading (Alastair Blanshard, University of Queensland, Australia) l 12. Andromache: Catfight in Phthia (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA) ; 13. Orestes: Polymorphously Per-verse: On Queer Metrology (David Youd, University of California, Berkeley, USA) ; Part V. Reproduction 14. Hecuba: The Dead Child or Queer for a Day (Karen Bassi, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) ; 15. Phoenician Women: ?Deviant? Thebans Out of Time (Rosa Andújar, Kings' College, London, UK) ; 16. Electra: Parapoetics and Paraontology (Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) ; Part VI: Encounters 17. Iphigenia in Tauris: Iphigenia and Artemis? Reading Queer/Performing Queer (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, USA and David Bullen, Royal Holloway, UK) ; 18. Cyclops: A Philosopher Walks into a Satyr Play (Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, USA) ; Part VII: Transitions 19. Hippolytus: Queer Crossings: Following Anne Carson (Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University, USA) ; 20. Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria: Reality and the Egg: An Oviparody of Euripides (L. Deihr, UC, Berkeley, USA) ; 21. Bacchae: ?An Excessively High Price to Pay for Being Reluctant to Emerge from the Closet?? (Isabel Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK)