Sensing Greek Drama  
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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.
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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.
Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Senses and Form
    • 1. Monads on the Sonic Fold: Disquiet in Sophocles’ Antigone Ben Radcliffe
    • 2. Euripidean Lyric through the Eyes ofAristophanes Marcus Ellis
    • 3. The Dynamics of Physical, Aesthetic and Cultural Taste in Aristophanes Afroditi Angelopoulou
  • Part II: Senses and Power
    • 4. “But not a word about me” (περὶ ἐμοῦ δ’ οὐδεὶς λόγος) Sensing Xanthias in Aristophanes’ Frogs Zachary Case
    • 5. Smell, Sex and Gender in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata Antonia Marie Reinke
  • Part III: Senses and Vitality
    • 6. Seeing in Euripides’ Alcestis and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Katharine A. Craik
    • 7. Touching Death in Euripides’ Alcestis Chiara Blanco
  • Part IV: Senses and Audiences
    • 8. Bodies that Shock: The Erinyes and Lyssa Naomi Weiss
    • 9. Making Sense of Surprisal: Thaumastos on the Ancient Stage – A Cognitive Approach Peter Meineck
  • Bibliography
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