Tragic Bodies: Edges of the Human in Greek Drama

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Epigraph
Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLOGUE SKIN TO SKIN IN GREEK TRAGEDY
	1. Figuration, Embodiment, and Semiotic Materialities
	2. Tragic Aesthetics
	3. A Net the Gods Made
	4. Setting the Scene
CHAPTER 1 TOUCHING OEDIPUS: PROXIMITIES, CONTACT, AND AFFECTIVE INTIMACIES
	1. Sensing Bodies
	2. Witnessing and Handling Bodies in Pain
	3. Oedipal Proxemics and Touching
CHAPTER 2 THE SIBLING HAND: MANUAL EROTICS AND VIOLENCE
	1. Hands-on Family
	2. Killing Versus Loving Hands (Aeschylus to Sophocles)
	3. Siblings Hand-to-Hand (Euripides)
	4. Other Manual Menaces
CHAPTER 3 FAMILIAL COVERINGS: SKIN, CLOAKS, AND OTHER OUTERWEAR
	1. Parental Carapaces
	2. Spousal Mantles
	3. Racialized Carapaces
	4. Shields, Pelts, and Similar Shells
CHAPTER 4 STRANGE CONTAINERS: BODIES AND OTHER TRAGIC VESSELS
	1. “Material” Edges
	2. “Human” Vessels: Jar, Coffin, Tomb
	3. Inside Out
CHAPTER 5 BODILY ALTERATIONS: UNDRESS, PROSTHESIS, AND ASSEMBLAGE
	1. Fleshly Extensions
	2. Female Assemblages and “Nudity”
	2. Captive and Mourning Assemblages
	3. Other Familial Groupings
CHAPTER 6 MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS: CORPSES, GHOSTS, STATUES
	1. Creatures and Demons in Aeschylus
	2. Ghosts and Eerie Doubles
	3. Suppliant Bodies and/as Statues
	4. The Undead
FINAL SCENES: BEYOND THE HUMAN
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX LOCORUM
GENERAL INDEX