{"product_id":"queer-euripides-9781350249615","title":"Queer Euripides","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its ongoing developments. \u003ci\u003eQueer Euripides\u003c\/i\u003e represents a vital step in exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and relations more broadly.  Bringing together twenty-one chapters by experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and provo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading Queer Euripides from start to finish feels like receiving an invitation to a conversation, a collective, an in-crowd, a protest, a manifesto for change ... I feel deeply grateful to the editors of Queer Euripides and to its contributors for this volume that in its reckoning with the failures of Classics is no less full to the brim with ‘weedy hope’. I am trying to imagine the landscapes that will grow from such endings. * The Classical Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe surprise factors of these re-readings ... will constantly challenge our assumptions and force us to read the text with fresh eyes. * Journal of Classics Teaching *\u003cbr\u003eFull of innovative analyses of Euripides’ plays, this ground-breaking volume is the first to employ queerness as a lens for examining the entire surviving corpus of an ancient Greek playwright. In both form and content it heralds a new approach to ancient texts that should have a deep impact on the field of Classics and reach many audiences beyond it. * Naomi A. Weiss, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments   Queer Euripides: An Introduction (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA and Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA)    \u003cb\u003ePart I. Temporalities\u003c\/b\u003e 1.\u003ci\u003e Hippolytus\u003c\/i\u003e: Euripides and Queer Theory at the Fin de Siècle and Now (Daniel Orrells, King’s College, London, UK)  2. \u003ci\u003eRhesus\u003c\/i\u003e: Tragic Wilderness in Queer Time (Oliver Baldwin, University of Reading, UK) 3. \u003ci\u003eTrojan Women\u003c\/i\u003e: No Futures (Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)   \u003cb\u003ePart II. Escape\/Refusal\u003c\/b\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eIphigenia in Aulis\u003c\/i\u003e: Perhaps (Not) (Ella Haselswerdt, University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 5. \u003ci\u003eHelen\u003c\/i\u003e: Queering the Barbarian (Patrice Rankine, University of Richmond, USA) 6. \u003ci\u003eChildren of Heracles\u003c\/i\u003e: Queer Kinship: Profit, Vivisection, Kitsch (Ben Radcliffe, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) 7. \u003ci\u003eSuppliant Women\u003c\/i\u003e: Adrastus’s Cute Lesbianism: Labor Irony Adhesion (Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA)  \u003cb\u003ePart III: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFailure\u003c\/b\u003e 8. \u003ci\u003eMedea\u003c\/i\u003e: Failure and the Queer Escape (Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago, USA)  9. \u003ci\u003eAlcestis\u003c\/i\u003e: Impossible Performance (Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA) 10. \u003ci\u003eIon\u003c\/i\u003e: Into the Queer Ionisphere (Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College, USA)   \u003cb\u003ePart IV:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Relations \u003c\/b\u003e 11. \u003ci\u003eHeracles\u003c\/i\u003e: Homosexual Panic and Irresponsible Reading (Alastair Blanshard, University of Queensland, Australia) 12. \u003ci\u003eAndromache\u003c\/i\u003e: Catfight in Phthia (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA) 13. \u003ci\u003eOrestes\u003c\/i\u003e: Polymorphously Per-verse: On Queer Metrology (David Youd, University of California, Berkeley, USA)   \u003cb\u003ePart V. Reproduction\u003c\/b\u003e 14. \u003ci\u003eHecuba\u003c\/i\u003e: The Dead Child or Queer for a Day (Karen Bassi, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) 15. \u003ci\u003ePhoenician Women\u003c\/i\u003e: “Deviant” Thebans Out of Time (Rosa Andújar, Kings’ College, London, UK) 16. \u003ci\u003eElectra\u003c\/i\u003e: Parapoetics and Paraontology (Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)  \u003cb\u003ePart VI: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEncounters\u003c\/b\u003e  17. \u003ci\u003eIphigenia in Tauris\u003c\/i\u003e: Iphigenia and Artemis? Reading Queer\/Performing Queer  (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, USA and David Bullen, Royal Holloway, UK) 18. \u003ci\u003eCyclops\u003c\/i\u003e: A Philosopher Walks into a Satyr Play (Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, USA)   \u003cb\u003ePart VII: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTransitions\u003c\/b\u003e  19. \u003ci\u003eHippolytus\u003c\/i\u003e: Queer Crossings: Following Anne Carson (Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University, USA) 20. \u003ci\u003eAristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria\u003c\/i\u003e: Reality and the Egg: An Oviparody of Euripides (L. Deihr, UC, Berkeley, USA) 21. \u003ci\u003eBacchae\u003c\/i\u003e: “An Excessively High Price to Pay for Being Reluctant to Emerge from the Closet?” (Isabel Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK)   Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738610282839,"sku":"9781350249615","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350249615.jpg?v=1720049645","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queer-euripides-9781350249615","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}